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Another Day, Another New Hotel Booking Website

February 27, 2009 at 12:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

We are in a recession, hotel rooms can be snapped up for pretty cheap all over the place, and now you are presented with yet another booking tool to find and book said cheap rooms: the aptly-named CheapOStay.com, from the folks that brought you CheapOair.com.

You can search hotels by name, city, airport or landmark (not much new here), and apparently their "CheapOpicks" will highlight specials for you: free upgrades, casino credits, free breakfasts, etc. — and right now they've got a handful of hotels on "Red Tag" sale that will knock $10 off the total price of your rezzie.

Also, they're doing a launch promo offering an additional $15 off for first time bookers on the site. But, as with a lot of other hotel booking websites, the "average nightly rate" is prominently listed — and sometimes that's the rate you will be getting only when you stay a few nights to qualify for a multiple-night discount.

Just be sure to read the fine print: we went to book a "$27 room" at Hooters Hotel and Casino (what? why not?) in Vegas, and ended up with a total of $127.63: we had to book three nights to qualify for a 15% discount, got the first two nights at $24.65, the third night at $33.15, paid a total of $55.18 in taxes and such, and after the $10.00 "Red Tag" discount we arrived at our total. All in all, not a bad deal — but our minds are not blown.

We checked out the site ourselves and found it pretty easy to navigate and search through, though it looks like there are still a couple of bugs (the San Francisco landing page took us to a blank page with some rogue HTML code floating around). But check it out, poke around, see if you come up with any great deals — and if you do, let us know.

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