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Offline Highlander

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Hotel Websites
« on: March 26, 2019, 12:25:56 PM »
As regular members will know the present Mrs H and I spent many years staying at Letoon Hotel at the far end of the prom.

We loved it and had so many exceptionally happy holidays there.

It was always reasonably priced and just out of curiosity I wondered how much it cost these days:

The following are the results of my search. Prices are for 14 nights in a standard room with breakfast included.

Love holidays - £ 2,827 per person

Alpha Rooms - £ 5,019 for 2

On the Beach - £ 2,758.34 per person

Travel Republic - £ 812 for 2

Expedia - £ 812 for 2

My questions would be 1. why the huge discrepancies and 2. who in their right mind would pay £ 5,650 to stay there.



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« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2019, 14:14:52 PM »
crazy prices indeed  Highlander do I assume those were June prices ??.

 I see one web site I looked at .  say eg 14 th June to 28 June  14 nights BB room for two is on offer @ only £572

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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2019, 18:35:17 PM »
Strange John asthis one always sits in that price range on my searches ,I think it must be a glitch

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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2019, 19:29:53 PM »
2. who in their right mind would pay £ 5,650 to stay there.

Probably the kind of person who'd rather buy a Rolls Royce than a Ford Mondeo.

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« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2019, 19:50:45 PM »
looks to me like those sky high prices are for the big letoon hotel  .the big one  over the other side of fethiye not the calis letoon

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« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2019, 20:13:12 PM »
Letoonia bluclad but surely three wouldn't make the same mistake and their photos are all of Letoon, Calis.

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« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2019, 22:13:41 PM »
I've always thought it is when they don't have any rooms to sell at a certain hotel

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« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2019, 22:26:37 PM »
Why then do they not just say "No availability for your dates"

I didn't go through the whole process but when I clicked "Book Hotel" the next page appeared.

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« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2019, 09:42:26 AM »
I've also come across this with some hotels and various sites. It's usually been early in the year  so assumed that they haven't set their rates for that season yet. Not sure that would apply now though as we're only a month away from the official start of summer season.   ???

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« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2019, 10:32:26 AM »
It could be down to google ranking for the hotel on the reseller agent websites

We had a website selling cot mattresses and products ranked high on google, but if the product was out of stock the item on the google search would drop out of the high ranking on google. and it was not easy to get it back up.

So we did exactly the same thing if we were out of stock, put the cost up so high no one would buy it and the ranking stayed high , and we would lower the price when back in stock.





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