Hotwire Hotel: Help id Quebec City 3 star hotel

[brook1234]

Downtown Quebec

- March 5 - 7, 2010

- 3 star

- $72

- fitness center, pool, restauraunt, high-speed internet

- 2 adults, 1 child

Thanks

[AaronJB]

Welcome to Betterbidding! :)

My guess would be the Best Western City Centre.

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[brook1234]

A couple quick questions... Why do I get different results for the above request if I exclude the 1 child and just have 2 adults? Any ideas on a $73, 3* hotel searched as above but with only 2 adults and with a fitness centre and restaurant? I will use the site's links to start my purchase when the time comes. Thanks for your help.

[thereuare]

Some standard hotel rooms are only designed to accomodate double occupancy, so such a hotel may not appear on a search for triple occupancy. Other hotels may have a limited number of rooms with two beds in them, so they only offer the opaque providers rooms for double occupancy, which makes it easier for them to manage their room inventory, assinging a room at check-in based upon what's available (vs. having to hold a triple occupancy room).

Another explanation is that HOTWIRE only shows the least expensive hotel in a given zone at a given star rating... some hotels charge more for occupancy mor than two, others have the same rate for up to four in the room. Therefore, one hotel can be the least expensive at double occupancy, but when adding additional guests, a different hotel can be the cheapest, and would replace the original hotel on a triple/quad occupancy search.

It's also possible that you're seeing the same hotel but with a different set of amenity icons.

There are multiple other explanations, but these are a few which are easiest to explain/understand.

A 3* with only these two amenities has not yet been reported in this zone, but given the nearly identical rate to the hotel offered for your 2adults/1child search, i think it's quite possibly the same property... but can't be certain or too confident given how common these two amenities are at a 3* city hotel.

Thanks for using our PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links to begin your purchases.