Hotels.com Hotel Price Index shows by how low the price difference between may be the hotel star ratings, compare prices
worthwhile not only in economically difficult times, but also in planning the next holiday hotel. In some destinations could be the comfort of a four-star hotels for the price of a three-star hotel use, as the present Hotel Price Index (HPI) of Hotels.com shows. The analysis based on data from the world's most visited hotel booking portal www.Hotels.com and development of hotel rates for the third quarter of 2008 identifies shows, travel destinations, in which the level of price difference between the selected and the next higher star category, only a few €.
price difference in Europe at least
travel in Europe have benefited most from the low price difference between three-and four-star hotels. Above all in Madrid. Paying guests in the English capital for a three-star inn between July-September average of 77 € per room and night, was a star for just one more
€ more mature. With the average hotel cost of 78 € per room and night enjoying all the benefits of a Madrid-Tourist four-star hotel.
A star-struck upgrade in Barcelona and Copenhagen with six extra € to book. Also in Dublin, Munich and Oslo, the extra cost was for the next higher category hotel less than ten euros. Whom some more luxury biszu € 20 per room per night was worth, coming in many other cities of European destinations to its costs, such as Rome, Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Lisbon, Stockholm and Edinburgh.
for Long-distance travelers to North and South America paid off during the investigation period, a price / performance comparison. Both in the U.S. metropolitan Chicago and Washington, as well as in Mexico City and in Toronto, Canada settled for around 20 € the room up one star.
The July-September quarter bargain 2008 made smart city tourists in Warsaw. This was both a first-class hotel with four stars, as well as the luxury version charged with five stars per room and night average of 94 €.
The Hotel Price Index is available for free download at http://www.presseportal.de/go2/hotel-price-index-2008.
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