How do travel apps that claim they can book, for example, a hotel for cheaper than the original price, do it? Is it legit?

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How do travel apps that claim they can book, for example, a hotel for cheaper than the original price, do it? Is it legit?

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Answer 1

In some cases, the hotels have contracts with the big sites like hotel.com where they MUST allow that big site to have a lower price by X than any other listing for the same hotel anywhere else, even on their own website.

So in that case, yes, the app will have a lower price.