Beginning on January 26th, LastMinuteTravel.com is conducting a two-week-long zinger sale on hotel rooms — those who move quickly enough can book a room for up to seven nights and pay only $1 per night. Is this too good to be true?
Well, yes and no. Last MinuteTravel.com is offering up its worldwide 15,000-hotel inventory for sale. But there’s a hitch and make sure to read the fine print.
One hitch: Travelers won’t know which hotel they’ll be booking until the deed is done.
The real catch: This dollar-a-night deal will be available for only 15 minutes each day and exclusively during weekdays. Aaahh… which 15 minutes?
Travelers will need sign up for email clues to find out which 15 minutes are the hot ones. For any gamblers, this could be a very worthwhile game to play.
Hope the site doesn’t crash from an overload of traffic or LastMinuteTravel.com will have plenty of grumbling bargain hunters and some embarrassed hotel affiliates. In this economy, it’s worth going the unconventional route to get super bargains.
Winners, however, won’t be able to complain about the room cost.
Be prepared to move fast. Get ready. Get set. Go. Good luck!
Karen Fawcett is president of BonjourParis and is always delighted to unearth a bargain.
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the only question will be if the hotel honors the rate, and if you do not get an ‘oops, we mispriced that room’ email in a week or so. It would be amusing if the hotels decided not to honor the room or add surcharges for fuel, air, and hot water . . .
Thanks, Karen! I’m signed up. You rock.
I got my “hint” email and tried to book a room with sufficient time left during the 15 minutes. Rather than process the request, the site stalled with a lengthy flash presentation. After a couple of minutes, it presented me the $1 option for a hotel; I immediately clicked “book it” but was told the promotion was off. Seems kinda shady, no?
Okay, maybe not shady. But disappointing…
Well shut my mouth, maybe…
Yesterday the site presented the flash interlude, which used up enough time that I didn’t get to complete the booking before the promotion went “off” for the day…
Today I found the 15-minute window again and (fingers crossed) scored a 4-star hotel in Florida for a buck a night… Here’s hoping it wasn’t a glitch!
Many people have been disappointed. Perhaps gimmicks are the way to go in this faltering economy — but buyer beware. However, there are a lot of people who love hitting the gambling tables and there are (occasionally) some winners.
Please report how you do ….or not. K