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Yapta.com Launches a Literal 'Room Rate Drop Watch'

Airfares have any number of price-tracking engines, such as Kayak Buzz and Airfare Watchdog, but for far too long people seeking discounted room rates have had to play guessing games or the click-to-refresh shuffle with hotel booking websites. From the airfare-tracking pack emerges Yapta.com, which has just added a fresh feature onto their hotel search: the "track price drops" button.

Similar to the Kayak Buzz system of airfare change notifications, Yapta asks you to subscribe with an email address, choose your dates and preferred hotels using filters like star rating and hotel brand, and it will track price drops and history over thirty days, which you can access in the "My Trips" area of the website—as opposed to receiving numerous annoying emails. Or, if you're particularly keen on sniping a killer rate at a certain property, then you choose to be alerted when the price drops by more than $20, or even more hopefully.

Just keep in mind that the system has just launched, so don't be surprised if when you're searching for the price history on New York's Hotel Gansevoort, that it's a little sparse; now each day will bring you closer to both booking the trendy hotels and gossiping about them.

[Image: Yapta.com]