How to Get a Hotel Price Drop Alert by Email, Even After Booking

Ways to get an email when a hotel's price drops

1. Google Hotels price tracking: search for hotels in a city on Google, pick your dates and switch on 'Track prices'. Google emails you when prices drop a lot for the hotels in that search. Since April 2026 you can also track one hotel by name, but for now only in English and Spanish. It's free and you need a Google account. The catch is that Google decides what counts as a big drop. It only watches the dates you picked, and there is no 'any dates' option for hotels.
2. Price alerts on a travel site or app: on KAYAK you sign in, search, and click 'Set Price Alert' above the hotel results. Most alerts come once a day in one email. You can ask for faster ones, which usually fire when the price moves about 10%. Alerts end after your travel date, and also if you stop opening the emails. The Hotels.com and trivago apps let you set price alerts on hotels you've saved. Hopper sends a phone notification.
3. Book a room you can cancel, then keep watching it: choose a rate with free cancellation and leave an alert on the same hotel and dates. If the price drops, book the cheaper room first, then cancel the old booking. A non-refundable rate can't be rebooked this way. HotelSlash watches a booking you've already made and tells you when it finds a lower rate. It's a paid membership, normally $49.95 a year.

A hotel price drop alert in one sentence

Write it the way you'd tell a friend: 'email me if the room I booked in Lisbon for November 13–16 drops below €450 for the stay, so I can rebook'. Say the hotel, the dates, how many people and which room. Say whether you need free cancellation or breakfast. If you haven't booked yet, name the area and the most you'd pay a night. A real person reads it and sets it up. No account, no app, and nothing for you to maintain afterwards.

We check the public pages you would check yourself: the hotel's own website, and the booking sites' pages for your dates. Nothing arrives while the price holds. When it drops below your line, a short letter says the new total, where we saw it, and the room and conditions it's for, with a link so you can check and book. If it drops again later, you hear again.

There are things we don't do. We don't book, cancel or rebook for you; that stays with you. We can't see prices that need a login, like member rates. Some booking sites block visitors like us; then we watch the hotel's own site. If we can't read any of them, the first letter tells you, and you pay nothing. The first 7 days are free with no payment details; after that it's $5/month for that one alert, and it stops by itself if you don't subscribe. Reply once to stop.

Good to know about hotel price drop alerts

Compare the same thing. A cheaper price can be a different room, no breakfast, or a rate you can't cancel. Look at the total for the whole stay, with taxes and fees. In the US, the FTC's fee rule has required hotels and booking sites to include resort fees in the total price since May 12, 2025. Taxes can still be shown separately, as long as you see them before you pay.

Price guarantees help with a lower price somewhere else, not with a drop later on the same site. Marriott matches a lower rate for the same room on another website, plus 25% off or 5,000 points. You must book directly with Marriott and claim within 24 hours of booking. Booking.com's 'We Price Match' refunds the difference if you find your booking cheaper on another website. The other offer must still be online when they check, and cancelling your booking ends the claim.

Free cancellation has a deadline, usually a day or a few days before arrival. Put it in your calendar. After that date, a price drop is no use to you. When you rebook, make the new booking first and cancel the old one second, so you're never left without a room.

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