Another fantastic example of that “drop-down” Hilton discount

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I’ve previously spent an unduly long time (and column inch total!) telling you all to check the Hilton “More prices” tab when booking any Hilton room.

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However, the primary thrust for this is that you can often find a neat little bonus tucked in there – dinner included for £3 extra or similar.

However, recently I was faced with an even better reason – the price was 40% less.

So, to be clear – the advertised “best rate” from Hilton on accessing their website could be beaten by 40% through two or three additional clicks. However, if you didn’t do this and simply went for the “best rate” presented, you’d pay the much higher amount.

How did this happen?

I am currently looking for a low cost room in Vegas.

When I ran my search initially on Hilton.com, the search defaulted to the Winter Sale rates. I was therefore offered a room at $183: not a bad price.

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However, it probably won’t surprise you to know that I clicked on “More prices”, which then gave me the fantastic rate of $111 a night – an instant saving of $72 (albeit on a non-flex basis):

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However, the “More prices could do better than this. Because only the headline “Winter Sale” rates had been displayed, I clicked the box on the left of the screen to load all of the “More prices”:

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As if by magic, a further “More prices” price then appeared, offering the room at an unbeatable (surely) $109:

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Securing the “drop-down” Hilton discount

So there we have it – always ensure that you’ve seen the full range of prices when booking with Hilton and don’t assume the headline price is the best price.  I fully appreciate this is a more time consuming process (that probably should be picked up by Hilton’s tech), but where it saves you 40% on your room, it’s well worth doing.

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Comments

  1. Craig Sowerby says

    Hope you’re going on New Years Eve or some peak weekend, as that’s a horrible price for this hotel once you add the resort fee.

    No breakfast for elites by the way, just a daily credit that will get you a coffee and muffin at a hotel coffee shop. (you’ll need your passport to even charge your room)

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