You can get really cheap hotel rates if you’re smart about your practices. Even in the busiest of seasons, there are free rooms at almost any hotel in any city anywhere. Even if you’re in a place like New York, you can almost always find a clerk who may tell you there’s no rooms but if you’re nice to them they can maybe find a room that’s a no show or cancellation. The key to a great rate is to be nice; because I can speak from first hand experience but a clerk will jab a nasty person with the highest rate they can get away with; if you’re civil to them (they are people too, you know) then you could score a great room at a great rate.

Cheap hotel room rates in Las Vegas are ready to be found as they just want you inside the hotels and the partnering neighborhood casinos; if you’re looking for cheap hotel room rates in Paris that’s another story entirely. You should always check ahead when you’re doing international travel and ask! Clerks love to talk; imagine that; sitting there all night all alone and a nice person gets on the line? They love it! People are people at hotels; they can also tell you their opinion about when the best time is to visit to get the best hotel room rate.

The lowest rates at the cheapest hotels aren’t always the best buy for even the most impoverished. Sometimes it pays to pay a few dollars more and get a nice room at a bit higher rate than having to dodge bullets or jackhammers and freeway traffic on the other side ringing in your ears first thing in the morning after a long night out.

Cheap hotel room rates are a thing that can be found in any city at any time if you know the right way to look. While many believe of the internet as being the cheapest way around things; I’m here to confirm this suspicion. Sad but true, night after night, unless you work for the hotel (the hotel you’re visiting; even the guest rates from the same hotel aren’t as good as Travelocity rates on any given night) then you’re stuck. But the thing about some of these online sources is that you need to book the room with no refund before you can see the room at the hotel you’re staying in. That makes many people uncomfortable and I understand that. So the second cheapest way to do things is for you to call the hotel and just be nice! Hotel worker don’t want much; just a little respect and they might be able to pull some strings for you in a beneficial way.