forum thread Posted by komondor • Jan 17, 2025
Jan 17, 2025 4:31 PM
forum thread Posted by komondor • Jan 17, 2025
Jan 17, 2025 4:31 PM
Best travel deals may require a VPN
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Several articles have shown that where you live ( Computer IP address location) can have a large effect on the price you pay for your vacation.
I found this out years ago by using the yahoo UK search engine but now it is even more pronounced.
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/art...025145.ph
Under these controlled browsing conditions, I found consistently that consumers browsing from the Bay Area were offered far higher rates for hotel rooms compared with users browsing from less affluent cities, like Phoenix and Kansas City.
In one shocking case, the Bay Area test user was offered a nightly rate for a Manhattan hotel room that was $500 more per night than the rate offered to consumers in the less affluent cities for the exact same room and dates.
Using the visiting country for your IP can also yield much better results
https://www.fodors.com/news/news/...r-bookings
The company analyzed prices on Booking.com, Hertz, Hotels.com, Europcar, and Enterprise in different countries. It found that Americans pay hundreds of dollars more for the same deals. For example, hiring a car from the U.K. company Enterprise in Edinburgh, Scotland, costs Americans $1,249 without a VPN and £512 ($737) while using a VPN set to the U.K. location. That's a difference of $512 for the same car.
The same discrepancy was observed with hotels, theme parks, and luxury holidays. For a luxury trip to Paris, Americans were quoted $8,746 on Hotels.com for a 7-night stay in a junior suite at the Hôtel Splendide Royal Paris – Relais & Châteaux. On the French version of the same website, the price came down to $7,770.
Three other searches on Hotels.com find differences between local and U.S. websites for the same deal. A similar result also popped up for Booking.com when a 7-night stay in Hotel Kennedy in Milan, Italy, for a family of three reflected a price difference of $203.
Given the low cost for a VPN and free trials it is certainly worth a try please post here any savings.
I found this out years ago by using the yahoo UK search engine but now it is even more pronounced.
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/art...025145.ph
Under these controlled browsing conditions, I found consistently that consumers browsing from the Bay Area were offered far higher rates for hotel rooms compared with users browsing from less affluent cities, like Phoenix and Kansas City.
In one shocking case, the Bay Area test user was offered a nightly rate for a Manhattan hotel room that was $500 more per night than the rate offered to consumers in the less affluent cities for the exact same room and dates.
Using the visiting country for your IP can also yield much better results
https://www.fodors.com/news/news/...r-bookings
The company analyzed prices on Booking.com, Hertz, Hotels.com, Europcar, and Enterprise in different countries. It found that Americans pay hundreds of dollars more for the same deals. For example, hiring a car from the U.K. company Enterprise in Edinburgh, Scotland, costs Americans $1,249 without a VPN and £512 ($737) while using a VPN set to the U.K. location. That's a difference of $512 for the same car.
The same discrepancy was observed with hotels, theme parks, and luxury holidays. For a luxury trip to Paris, Americans were quoted $8,746 on Hotels.com for a 7-night stay in a junior suite at the Hôtel Splendide Royal Paris – Relais & Châteaux. On the French version of the same website, the price came down to $7,770.
Three other searches on Hotels.com find differences between local and U.S. websites for the same deal. A similar result also popped up for Booking.com when a 7-night stay in Hotel Kennedy in Milan, Italy, for a family of three reflected a price difference of $203.
Given the low cost for a VPN and free trials it is certainly worth a try please post here any savings.
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Several articles have shown that where you live ( Computer IP address location) can have a large effect on the price you pay for your vacation.
I found this out years ago by using the yahoo UK search engine but now it is even more pronounced.
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/art...025145.ph
Under these controlled browsing conditions, I found consistently that consumers browsing from the Bay Area were offered far higher rates for hotel rooms compared with users browsing from less affluent cities, like Phoenix and Kansas City.
In one shocking case, the Bay Area test user was offered a nightly rate for a Manhattan hotel room that was $500 more per night than the rate offered to consumers in the less affluent cities for the exact same room and dates.
Using the visiting country for your IP can also yield much better results
https://www.fodors.com/news/news/...r-bookings
The company analyzed prices on Booking.com, Hertz, Hotels.com, Europcar, and Enterprise in different countries. It found that Americans pay hundreds of dollars more for the same deals. For example, hiring a car from the U.K. company Enterprise in Edinburgh, Scotland, costs Americans $1,249 without a VPN and £512 ($737) while using a VPN set to the U.K. location. That's a difference of $512 for the same car.
The same discrepancy was observed with hotels, theme parks, and luxury holidays. For a luxury trip to Paris, Americans were quoted $8,746 on Hotels.com for a 7-night stay in a junior suite at the Hôtel Splendide Royal Paris – Relais & Châteaux. On the French version of the same website, the price came down to $7,770.
Three other searches on Hotels.com find differences between local and U.S. websites for the same deal. A similar result also popped up for Booking.com when a 7-night stay in Hotel Kennedy in Milan, Italy, for a family of three reflected a price difference of $203.
Given the low cost for a VPN and free trials it is certainly worth a try please post here any savings.
I found this out years ago by using the yahoo UK search engine but now it is even more pronounced.
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/art...025145.ph
Under these controlled browsing conditions, I found consistently that consumers browsing from the Bay Area were offered far higher rates for hotel rooms compared with users browsing from less affluent cities, like Phoenix and Kansas City.
In one shocking case, the Bay Area test user was offered a nightly rate for a Manhattan hotel room that was $500 more per night than the rate offered to consumers in the less affluent cities for the exact same room and dates.
Using the visiting country for your IP can also yield much better results
https://www.fodors.com/news/news/...r-bookings
The company analyzed prices on Booking.com, Hertz, Hotels.com, Europcar, and Enterprise in different countries. It found that Americans pay hundreds of dollars more for the same deals. For example, hiring a car from the U.K. company Enterprise in Edinburgh, Scotland, costs Americans $1,249 without a VPN and £512 ($737) while using a VPN set to the U.K. location. That's a difference of $512 for the same car.
The same discrepancy was observed with hotels, theme parks, and luxury holidays. For a luxury trip to Paris, Americans were quoted $8,746 on Hotels.com for a 7-night stay in a junior suite at the Hôtel Splendide Royal Paris – Relais & Châteaux. On the French version of the same website, the price came down to $7,770.
Three other searches on Hotels.com find differences between local and U.S. websites for the same deal. A similar result also popped up for Booking.com when a 7-night stay in Hotel Kennedy in Milan, Italy, for a family of three reflected a price difference of $203.
Given the low cost for a VPN and free trials it is certainly worth a try please post here any savings.
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