Using VPN to book Hotels

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I’ve only tested this on the Agoda website but it may work for others. I’ve noticed that the prices were cheaper if im booking in the U.S than from somewhere.

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You sure it isn’t because the prices are in USD?

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are you sure that’s the final price? when I tried to do that, the prices were actually lower, but did not include tax.

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I worked for an online travel agency for 4 years and have direct comms with our pricing team, I can tell you right now that location does not influence the hotel room nights pricing.

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The easiest way to find the cheapest prices is to go to Google Maps, search the hotel, put in the dates and book from there on Booking, Agoda or Trip.com.

I tried many things and this was the cheapest and easiest.

6

All these VPN tricks are BS.

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i agree. i just recently used nordvpn to malaysia for booking hotels in japan. the prices were cheaper, and the cashback is higher. i think my booking through malaysia vpn saved me around $60 more or less. so the hack really works. also some areas restrict certain types of payment options while other coubtries have more options.

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More often than not, booking directly is the cheapest. Agoda are scumbags, don’t use them (Also booking.com, same company).

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If you book on booking by opening the link in Google maps and pay online (now or later), booking give an extra 10% discount.

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Personally, I’d say it’s more 50/50 on whether or not booking directly from a hotel is cheaper than a place like Agoda. I will always go with the place that sells it to me cheaper. Scumbags or not, I’m trying to save as much money as I can.

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Either you go to the most expensive hotels or you never did a price comparison.

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And you get screwed with the currency conversion.

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Part of their scumbaggery is (if you pay in advance) to completely lie about what the price will be in your currency, they apply horrendous extra charges so you end up paying far more than you imagined.

With people only caring about money, that’s how the world is in the state it’s in.

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I’ve spent a month per year in Japan.for 7 of the last 8 years, The majority of hotels I book are the equivalent of $100 or less, apart from Ryokans and I price compare every time.