I Get Where You’re Coming From

How much will you have to pay for hotel room? That depends, of course, on where you’re going. You might not realize that it can also depend on where you’re coming from. Keith A. Spencer in SF Gate: Hotel booking sites caught overcharging travelers from Bay Area. “I found consistently that consumers browsing from the Bay Area were offered far higher rates for hotel rooms compared with users browsing from less affluent cities, like Phoenix and Kansas City.
In one shocking case, the Bay Area test user was offered a nightly rate for a Manhattan hotel room that was $500 more per night than the rate offered to consumers in the less affluent cities for the exact same room and dates.”