The Russian urged to contact travel agents for the sake of saving when booking hotels hotel reservations. He shared his recommendations on his personal blog on the Yandex.Zen platform.
According to him, most online services make a “decent” retail markup to the actual cost of placement. Therefore, he urged not to choose hotels on your own, but to contact tour operators who have access to agency rates at cost and B2B booking systems.
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For example, he considered several accommodation options with arrival on December 1 and compared prices for different booking formats. Thus, a day at InterContinental Moscow Tverskaya in Moscow on Booking.com costs 12.4 thousand rubles. However, at the agency rate, the price is 9.3 thousand rubles.
At the Radisson Blu Hotel in Dubai, the savings amounted to 3.8 thousand rubles (13.6 thousand rubles on the online service versus 9.8 thousand at the travel agent ). In the Riu Palace Maldivas hotel in the Maldives – 6.9 thousand rubles (39.8 thousand rubles against 32.9 thousand).
Earlier in October, travel industry experts called Tuesday the most profitable day of the week for buying air tickets. It is clarified that it is best to do this during the day. “Never buy tickets on holidays or weekends, the price increases significantly,” they advised.