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Booking.com: 10% Cashback on Eligible Accommodation @ Cashrewards

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Booking.com: 10% Cashback on Eligible Accommodation @ Cashrewards
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GS9891 on 28/07/2024 - 17:31 cashrewards.com.au (737 clicks)
Last edited 01/08/2024 - 16:16 by 1 other user

Not the magical 12%/15% that sometimes happens, but better than a kick in the guts.

I know some people say they raise the price with cashback deals to match non-cashback prices anyway, but I've just cancelled and re-booked all the accommodation for a holiday I have coming up in Japan in November to get this cashback, and the base price stayed the same. So there don't seem to be any funny games at play for Japan at least I'd say.

Exclusions listed:

Cashback is ineligible on the following:

  • Any changes made directly with the hotel/property will invalidate cashback.
  • Car rentals, flights, non-accommodation bookings.
  • Use of any Booking.com refer-a-friend links, codes or any non-Cashrewards incentives (offers, links, newsletters, secret prices), unless stated as eligible on this site.
  • Travel that is not consumed.
  • Cleaning fees for homes & apartments.
  • GST and other taxes.
  • Fraudulent transactions.
  • Purchases using any type of discount which lowers price advertised on the Merchant site, including but not limited to employee discounts, student discounts and price-matching.

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  • Fatfat on 28/07/2024 - 17:41

    U r right. The price is $600 more expensive than as usual for 2 days onsen stays in Japan.

    • GS9891 on 28/07/2024 - 17:44
      +3

      Not sure about the pre-packaged stays stuff, but remade 13 individual hotel/ryokan bookings and their base price stayed the same at least.

      I guess the rule is always just double-check to be safe.

  • lawyerz on 28/07/2024 - 18:20
    +7

    from experience, booking.com via cashrewards jacks price, but this doesnt happen (as much) on shopback.

    • wavesgreen on 28/07/2024 - 19:12
      +1

      YMMV but I've never had it happen with Cashrewards and only once with Shopback. Sample size: 100+

      • lawyerz on 28/07/2024 - 19:15
        +1

        Funny how our experiences are all different. Wonder what's the criteria. I've gt a pretty large sample size too over the years and I've gotten to the point I don't even bother with cashrewards for booking.com.

        • wavesgreen on 28/07/2024 - 19:18

          I was just about to edit my post to add: I regularly am on VPN and compare via apps and websites, incognito/flight mode, no cookies, etc.

        • wavesgreen on 28/07/2024 - 21:27

          I should say that I almost exclusively book my accommodation last minute, usually within 24 or 48hrs of expected check-in. I have on more than one occasion booked my hotel for my arrival city while sitting at the gate waiting to board my flight.

          So it may be that the room stock that I am targeting, the hotels want to clear without too much price fiddling gaming going on on the backend.

      • Stewardo on 28/07/2024 - 22:56

        What membership tier are you with booking.com?

        • wavesgreen on 28/07/2024 - 23:15

          You mean Genius? Level 3.

    • Kanosha on 28/07/2024 - 19:43

      Everytime I did it on Shopback it would jack the prices up. This was for finding accomodation in Japan.

  • ComputerPC on 28/07/2024 - 18:39
    +2

    Some case just better off booking without cashback or directly on google.com - with local accomodation currency…

    • park on 28/07/2024 - 23:54

      Yes, it's best to evaluate the different ways each time

  • jordnz on 28/07/2024 - 19:45

    booked with SB for 3 hotels in Japan on booking.com a couple months ago. All just got rejected, despite the green icon in Chrome and the ShopBack banner displaying as I checked out.

  • kiriakoz on 28/07/2024 - 20:38
    +1

    I find booking.com useless. They typically (not always) charge more than direct and their customer service is rubbish. My flight on China Southern was cancelled and sorting it all out with them was very difficult.

    • GS9891 on 28/07/2024 - 20:43
      +3

      Personally I've used booking.com for 10~ years now, always smooth sailing (except one night in Italy where the hotel gave my room to someone else because I didn't reply to an email asking to confirm check-in time, but booking.com covered the extra cost for the emergency alt accommodation I had to find).

      But I only ever do accommodation. Would never do an airfare (especially with someone like China Southern) through an extra middleman like that, does seem a bit scary.

      • wavesgreen on 28/07/2024 - 21:09

        Yeah same, only accommodation* through booking.com and honestly can't think of a single actual inconvenience I've ever had with them. I've had more issues booking direct with hotel websites than booking.com.

        There have been the odd amount discrepancies in the final charge amount but it's always been a local/resort tax that I was aware of beforehand but booking.com hadn't included it in their listed price at the time.

        Airfares I almost solely do direct with airlines these days either as cash or points because the amount you save through a third party is rarely enough to cover the lack of peace of mind.

        And these days you can get cashback through Cashrewards/Shopback even when booking direct with the airlines. My favourite was my last trip to USA that I paid for with cash and points and was supposed to get 2% cashback on just the cash paid portion but instead I inexplicably got 24% cashback on the total original flat airfare cost. That was a gold star day.

        *Edit: I tell a lie I did hire a car once through booking.com because it was the cheapest out of all the sites I checked, significantly so, more than 15%. Hire went off without a hitch.

      • kiriakoz on 29/07/2024 - 06:40

        That's fair. I typically do accommodation and haven't had any problems with it. Good observation.

    • Thebuckstopshere on 29/07/2024 - 10:55

      +1 for not booking flights through booking.com.

      Helped a friend book through booking.com as it was one of the only sites I could find that would make a complex multi-city ticket itinerary price correctly with add-on fares from Brisbane-Tanzania.

      Long story short, South African changed the flight times Perth-Joburg about 3 months out which broke all the connections, which is fine, but booking.com were incredibly useless at doing their job and fixing the booking in a way that was acceptable and it was only resolved a couple of weeks out from departure after constant nagging. Front line staff were unable to do anything, everything had to be escalated and then disappeared into the ether.

      I need to find a good local travel agent who knows how to work a GDS for this sort of thing….

      • kiriakoz on 29/07/2024 - 15:58

        Yeah mine worked out, but no thanks to booking.com and I literally asked them, "what was the point of purchasing this through you if you provide no customer service?"

        Lesson learned.

  • ChesoRepresent on 28/07/2024 - 20:41

    My experience has been a hit and miss with Booking.com through Cashrewards, my best advice is just search as usual without the cashback then when you find one you like go through Cashrewards (keep the original tab open separately) and see if the pricing changes or not. Not all bookings get jacked up so hopefully the one you were looking at stays the same price.

    • LeonardoTenInchy on 29/07/2024 - 10:34

      Yeah, I also found that going to the property page on Booking.com from Google shows different pricing than searching on Booking directly. Had a few instances where the hotel was for example $450 when searching on their website, $450 via Cashrewards (-10% cashback) and $420 when coming from a Google search.

      Sometimes the pricing is different on mobile vs desktop as well, bit of a hassle finding the best price.

    • braddsey on 01/08/2024 - 18:21

      This is true of all hotel booking websites (Booking.com, Agoda, Wotif, Expedia). They do offer different prices through their app, mobile website, desktop website and depending on cashback. It also helps to login if you have an account.
      I recently booked a hotel on Wotif. It showed as $199 on the desktop website, then login to Wotif and get it for $179. Check it from my phone it's $159 (when logged in). I then picked up $20.99 from Shopback by booking via the Shopback app, so came down to $138.

      As with everything, shop around, check your cashback partners!

  • jingsu6688 on 28/07/2024 - 20:44
    -1

    BE AWARE. 100% scam. When click through cash rewards, the room price is 10% higher

  • SpaceJudge on 28/07/2024 - 21:13

    Prefer Expedia, they don’t jack.

  • Alekhine on 28/07/2024 - 21:55

    Does genius rewards stack with CashRewards cashback?

    • GS9891 on 28/07/2024 - 23:36

      Yeah, at least for my ones.

  • Skatez on 28/07/2024 - 21:58
    +1

    Just worked for me, no price difference. Thanks OP

  • Ruisu on 28/07/2024 - 23:44

    Bummer, looking at the website directly, my hotel stay is 603. via cashrewards - 670 with 67 cashback…

    • hayne on 29/07/2024 - 15:01

      Hey @Ruisu, do you mean looking at Booking.com directly or do you mean the hotel's own direct booking channel?

      As with everyone else, I'm trying to figure out if there is a pattern here. The hotels I've already booked and checked, there isn't an issue. But doesn't mean to say they don't do it.

      • Ruisu on 29/07/2024 - 15:30

        Hi @hayne, i can see how my post was confusing.
        To clarify, i compared:
        looking directly at booking.com for hotel A, which for me costed $603
        Vs. Booking.com (via cashback) for hotel A, which came to $670.

        So i obviously opted for the first option, taking the discount upfront.

  • pennypacker42069 on 29/07/2024 - 02:09
    +5

    booking accomodation is fairly painful now. if you want the best deal you have to try so many different websites, devices, vpns, cashback offers etc. there is no website that actually compares the market fully

  • lunartemis on 29/07/2024 - 07:57

    We booked 10 individual accommodation bookings in Japan for our trip at the end of last year using cashrewards. Used booking, agoda, expedia and got about $200 back from $1700 worth of accommodation (14 nights)

  • Dick10 on 05/08/2024 - 08:07
    -1

    Google Texas lawsuit Booking Holdings and deceptive pricing. So much for cash back. What a joke.

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