How to save money on your lodging (1)?
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Lodging is generally a large part of the travel budget. There are couple tips to know to save so money. Some time we are only talking about couple of euro, but I’m regularly able to save 40 to 60% of the regular price by using the two following tips:
- Websites such booking.com allow you to book without charging anything. All the hotels on the platforms don’t accept this kind of reservation, but there are generally enough choices to find something in your area. The idea with this kind of reservation is to secure a room at a ok-price. Then if you have more time to come back on the website and check the evolution of the prices, eventually changing your free reservation for another even better. Even if you are going to visit family or friends, making such reservation for a hotel next to the airport, just in case your flight is severely delay.
- The booking platforms such has booking.com generally offering very interesting discount the D-day. Most of the hotels know that if they are not full after 13h or 14h, they won’t be full for the night, so they try to get couple of extra customers by lowering down the price. It’s common to see sale up to 80% comparing to the original price. This kind of discounts allowed me: to visit a really nice 4 stars hotel in Kyoto for less than 60€ and to have an appartement and a private spa for 2h for less than 50€ in total. Patience is definitely wealthy and if you follow the first advice of this article you are sure to have a room somewhere even if you don’t find any interesting discount.
