Late Hotels | Get Up To 75% Off Your Hotel Room Prices

Late hotels are many people’s idea of “cheap hotels” and the phrase has come to mean practically the same thing in some people’s minds, but a late hotel room is not necessarily a bargain priced hotel room. Cheap  rooms are only available when the hotel needs to sell off rooms cheaply in order to tempt people to book. Hotel owners regard any empty room as a sin worse than theft and the whole selling process is geared towards filling up hotel capacity at the highest room price possible.

If there are rooms available with only a short time to go, websites specializing in “late hotels” will be offering them at a rate designed to tempt bookings, and there is a certain amount of competition between the various hotels for your money, which can bring the prices down even further. But remember that many of the late hotels on these websites are actually owned by the same companies and so the “competition” may not be as fierce as it appears!

On the other hand, if there are only a few rooms available on a certain day, you will not be offered much of a bargain. That is the fatal flaw in the whole late hotel booking concept. Because…

Late Hotels Are Not Always Cheap Hotels…

So how can you get the best possible price for any late hotels you want to book? I’m assuming that dates are not flexible – if they are, shop around until you find the best price for you. Here are my top 5 steps you should take to get the best late hotels bargains:

1. Shop Around – all the cheap hotels website have agreements to feature different hotels and different hotel groups. There is some crossover, but not as much as you might think.
2. Be Prepared To Travel – do you really have to be in the center of town? A few miles away very decent hotels may be available at half the price of the ones you are looking at.
3. Is There An Airport Nearby? If so, you might find your bargain room at the hotels near there. Hotels tend to be bigger around airports and have lots of rooms to fill. Usually there are excellent transport links to where you want to go, that’s what airports do!
4. Check Out Trip Adviser – search for late hotels in the location you are looking for and look up the hotel’s own website. Not every hotel offers cheap rooms to the late hotel websites.
5.  Email or Telephone The Hotel – even if the websites you are looking at show no vacancies, it’s very likely that there’s been a last minute cancellation and in my experience that’s where you’ll find the very best bargains. I once arrived at the last minute at a five star hotel in New York and, whereas my colleagues were paying as much as $485 for a standard room, I had an executive double on my own for $50. All right, so breakfast wasn’t included but I get fed very well for $5 at a diner a block away.

Late Hotels Can Offer Bargains – But You’ve Got To Be “In The Know”

And that’s exactly what latehotels.org is here to do: put you “in the know” when it comes to getting the best deals. Please bookmark this page and come back often for your late hotels tips and trick.

Late Hotels dot-org is intended to give you the best advice on booking last minute rooms online, as well as how to get the cheap hotel deals when booking by telephone or in person. The price of hotel rooms can vary enormously as hoteliers use ever-increasingly complex measures to ensure they get the best possible price for every room. The cost of a room can rise or fall by as much as 100% in a single hour. These days hotels rarely have set prices for their rooms – and if they do, it’s sky high to make you think your inflated price is a bargain! – everything now is priced according to the laws of supply and demand. Pity the poor customer who is at the mercy of sophisticated hotel rooming software!

That’s where latehotels-dot-org comes in. Our aim is to redress the balance in your favor by giving you information that will help you find the best late hotels room bargains when using hotel booking websites. We’ll give you insight into how the hotels “fix” their prices and offer you various cheats and ways around the system.

Where you want to stay plays a large part in how good a hotel room deal you can get. Certain parts of the world are better than others for finding cheap late hotels. It’s all a question of supply and demand. For example, finding bargain hotel prices in London is very difficult but not impossible, whereas somewhere like Scarborough on the Yorkshire coast of England usually has many more hotel rooms (supply) than people who want to stay there (demand) and so bargains can be found in adundance!

Local knowledge helps, as well as an insight into how supply and demand comes into play in various situations. Those in the know who are looking for cheap London hotels can opt to stay at one of the many Heathrow or Gatwick airport hotels, where 4 and 5 star luxury is available for a fraction of the price of staying in comparable hotels in Central London. The train or underground fare into London is a few pounds and the journey time is less than an hour in both cases.

The London airport hotels situation came about because large international hotel chains were invited to build large hotels on land surrounding the two London airports. Due to the economics of how hotels work, it makes more sense to have a lot of rooms served by one reception, one or two bars, restaurants, car parks and so on, so a lot of chains built tall buildings containing a lot of rooms, which they want to fill: hence the bargain room prices you can usually find there. In central London, where land is expensive and planning laws restrict the height of many buildings, rooms are much scarcer and so more expensive.

So, thanks for joining me at Late Hotels dot-org, I hope we can be of help.