Are these the prices I’ll pay in Chase Travel or Amex Travel?

Not necessarily. They’re open-market estimates. Use them to pick the hotel and dates, then confirm the rate in the portal — the booking link on each hotel takes you there.

How often do prices refresh?

On a rolling cycle — the site’s data updates daily, and every hotel is re-priced over the course of the cycle. Each hotel’s calendar shows the dates we currently hold prices for.

Why does a hotel show no price?

The meta-search doesn’t return rates for every property — some are new, some block resale channels, some are sold out across the window. Unpriced hotels sort to the end instead of being hidden.

Is the deal badge comparing hotels to each other?

No — each hotel to its own median. A $2,000 suite at 40% under its usual price is a deal; a $150 room at its usual price isn’t, even though it’s cheaper.

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Where our prices come from, and how to read them

Updated 2026-08-02 · 2 min read

The source

Every price on this site is a meta-search estimate: the cheapest open-market rate a major hotel search engine sees for a night. We don’t pull from the card portals — Chase Travel, Amex Travel, and the rest price independently, sometimes above the open market, sometimes below it.

That makes our numbers a screening tool, not a quote. They’re for finding the hotel and the dates worth checking; the number that matters is the one the portal shows you at booking.

What we rank

For each hotel we look across roughly the next three months of nightly prices and find the cheapest consecutive stay — two nights by default, since that’s the booking minimum for several programs, with a Stay filter that re-scopes the whole view to one to four nights. Programs without a minimum (Amex FHR, Bilt HAFH, Chase Renowned, Capital One Premier) are shown per night. The grid sorts cheapest-first; hotels we can’t price sort last rather than disappearing.

The deal badge

The green badge compares a hotel to itself, not to other hotels: when the cheapest stay sits at least 15% below that hotel’s own typical (median) price, the card shows how far below, and 30% or more gets the strongest marking. A hotel needs at least three priced stays before we’ll call anything a deal, so thin data can’t fake one.

The limits

Prices refresh on a rolling cycle, so a rate can move between our snapshot and your click. Some markets quote before taxes and fees. And a meta-search minimum sometimes belongs to an online travel agency whose rate a card portal won’t match. None of that changes with prettier engineering — it’s the nature of estimates, and we’d rather show the seams than pretend there aren’t any.

Hotels don’t pay for placement here. The ranking is arithmetic — cheapest first — and the site earns from clearly labeled ads, not from steering you anywhere.

Are these the prices I’ll pay in Chase Travel or Amex Travel?: Not necessarily. They’re open-market estimates. Use them to pick the hotel and dates, then confirm the rate in the portal — the booking link on each hotel takes you there.
How often do prices refresh?: On a rolling cycle — the site’s data updates daily, and every hotel is re-priced over the course of the cycle. Each hotel’s calendar shows the dates we currently hold prices for.
Why does a hotel show no price?: The meta-search doesn’t return rates for every property — some are new, some block resale channels, some are sold out across the window. Unpriced hotels sort to the end instead of being hidden.
Is the deal badge comparing hotels to each other?: No — each hotel to its own median. A $2,000 suite at 40% under its usual price is a deal; a $150 room at its usual price isn’t, even though it’s cheaper.

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