The best time to book your hotel is...
To carry out our research, we rely on separate studies of two major travel search engines, Trivago and TripAdvisor. According to the first, carried out taking into account the months of January to December and the prices of 2013 and 2014 in Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom, the ideal time to pay for the room is, in general, one month before our arrival date regardless of the season or time of year.
In fact, their statistics indicate that there is very little difference between reserving two months in advance and doing it the same day of arrival , which is undoubtedly extraordinary news for those who prefer to decide their destiny on the fly. They also warn that it does not pay to do it more than two months in advance , as prices will be at higher values.
However, according to the same study, this conclusion is not universally applicable: it depends on the country in which we want to stay. In this way, in Spain is where you have to be more foresighted, because the savings peak occurs between four and seven weeks before entry . It is followed by Italy, whose best date to book is between three and six weeks in advance, the United Kingdom (four and five), Germany (three and four) and France (between two and five weeks).
Sometimes, booking well in advance does not ensure better prices
THE WORLD LANDSCAPE
TripAdvisor, for its part, decides to analyze all hotel data from April 2014 to February 2016, focusing on the Summer Vacation, and consider that the best time to book a room depends entirely on the destination . Thus, for example, in Europe, this date is situated between three and five months before arriving. During this (hugely wide) window of time, the search engine signals that a price can be up to 23% more advantageous (comparing it with the highest point that the room will reach for the summer dates).
In the United States, hotel prices appear to be more stable, so the savings are not that great (around 7%) even if you book on the date indicated as most advantageous, two months in advance. AND n South America, however, you will have to take out the card up to four months before to achieve savings of 20%, although the study referred to by TripAdvisor also warns that, if you wait for the weeks just prior to your arrival date, you can get an advantage of between 2 and 4% more.
In Asia, on the other hand, it would be best to anticipate about three months to achieve similar savings to Europe. However, if you decide to wait a little longer, you should know that prices drop even more in the two weeks before your travel date . For Africa and Oceania, it is best to book five months before, saving by doing so 21 and 19% respectively.
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As all these valuations are somewhat generic, the search engine has made a study segmenting the prices of the most touristic destinations during the summer, which will help you, at least, to get an idea of whether you are right to wait until the last moment or to have everything tied up and tied up weeks before leaving:
· bangkok – Three months in advance: Up to 16% savings
· Barcelona – Two to seven months in advance: Up to 27% savings
· Beijing – Two to six months in advance: Up to 16% savings
· berlin – Two to five months in advance: Up to 33% savings
· Buenos Aires – One to four months in advance: Up to 19% savings
· cancun – Two to four months in advance: Up to 16% savings
· Cape Town – Three months in advance: Up to 13% savings
· dubai – Two months in advance: Up to 40% savings
· Dublin – Two to five months in advance: Up to 14% savings
· Hanoi – Three months in advance: Up to 16% savings
· istanbul – Five months in advance: Up to 29% savings
· Jakarta – Three months in advance: Up to 39% savings
· London – Three to five months in advance: Up to 18% savings
· Marrakesh – Four months in advance: Up to 28% savings
· Moscow – Four to seven months in advance: Up to 55% savings
· mumbai – Three months in advance: Up to 17% savings
· New York – Two to four months in advance: Up to 25% savings
· Orlando – From one to four months in advance: Up to 10% savings
· Paris – Four months in advance: Up to 32% savings
· prague – Two to five months in advance: Up to 33% savings
· River – Three to five months in advance: Up to 11% savings
· Rome – Three to five months in advance: Up to 32% savings
· Singapore – From two weeks to five months in advance: Up to 26% savings
· sydney – Five months in advance: Up to 34% savings
· tokyo – Two to five months in advance: Up to 31% savings
There are a lot of data, but if necessary we will learn them by heart by sleeping in places like this