Comments on: Less Choice: Expedia excluding hotels from searches?

By: Upgrades and Downgrades: Continental BusinessFirst, Frontier, Expedia-Choice, miles for vets | Upgrade: Travel Better

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:42:41 +0000

[...] The Expedia-Choice Hotels War You may recall the spat between the Choice Hotels chain and Expedia. Expedia demanded numerous draconian terms of Choice, and Choice said no. But now… As of this [...]

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:44:41 +0000

[...] or gimmick? – Check in the mail: Orbitz refunds airfare price drops, but is it worthwhile? – Less Choice: Expedia excluding hotels from searches – Track airfare before and AFTER you buy? Categorized in: Travelocity, hotels No [...]

By: Ric Garrido

Ric Garrido — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:12:08 +0000

All the more reason to use a meta-search engine for your hotel rate research. Expedia may not list Choice Hotels, but as long as other search engines cover Choice Hotels, then the meta-search (Kayak.com, Uptake.com) engine will show the results thorugh Orbitz or Travelocity or some other booking site.

No reason to book through Expedia anyway. The best deal is booking through the hotel chain’s own website to maximize loyalty program benefits. And if there is a lower rate elsewhere then just invoke the hotel chain’s Best rate Guarantee policy to get a better rate.

Expedia may want to rule the travel world and they have loads of clout with their reach (TripAdvisor, SmarterTravel, Hotwire), but we can be smart consumers and challenge their dominance with our choice of hotel search and purchase sites.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:38:20 +0000

Business must be good at Expedia to exclude 5000 hotels. Kayak sounds better and better.

By: StayBank

StayBank — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:33:20 +0000

That’s pretty big, and expected!