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Hotels.com vs the market.
Hotels.com prices 3,744 hotels — 46% of everything we track — across 20 cities. When another site quotes the same stay, it is the cheapest 20% of the time, over 40,043 contests.
Prices as collected on 17 Sep 2026
Where Hotels.com wins. And where it doesn’t.
Every city with 100+ contests: how often it had the lowest price there, how many of the city’s hotels it quotes, and where its price usually sits. ★ marks the cities where it wins most often of any site.
- Rome 30%wins 29%covers 0.0%vs market 3,911 contests
- Prague 30%wins 38%covers 0.0%vs market 3,709 contests
- Milan 27%wins 31%covers 0.0%vs market 3,865 contests
- Lisbon 22%wins 44%covers 0.0%vs market 3,780 contests
- Amsterdam 22%wins 67%covers 0.0%vs market 3,957 contests
- Madrid 21%wins 42%covers 0.0%vs market 3,221 contests
- Krakow 21%wins 77%covers 0.0%vs market 290 contests
- Vienna 19%wins 51%covers 0.0%vs market 3,525 contests
- Berlin 13%wins 45%covers 0.0%vs market 3,631 contests
- Paris 12%wins 53%covers 0.0%vs market 5,038 contests
- Barcelona 12%wins 50%covers 0.0%vs market 4,000 contests
- Munich 5%wins 75%covers 0.0%vs market 148 contests
- Athens 4%wins 71%covers +1.2%vs market 131 contests
- Copenhagen 3%wins 88%covers 0.0%vs market 169 contests
- Dublin 2%wins 82%covers 0.0%vs market 159 contests
- Budapest 2%wins 78%covers 0.0%vs market 171 contests
- Warsaw 2%wins 67%covers +0.2%vs market 133 contests
Against the sites that win most.
Sites with a track record — 200 contests and 5% of the hotels — by how often they had the lowest price.
Where Hotels.com undercuts everyone today.
The same stay quoted by several sites today, and this one well under the median of the others. Gaps over 60% left out — usually a different room.
Hotels.com prices that just fell.
Offers on this site cheaper than the same site asked for the same stay over the previous days.
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Stuff people ask.
Answers written from today’s numbers, not a help page from 2019.
How many hotels does Hotels.com sell?
On 17 September 2026, Hotels.com had a current price for 3,744 hotels of the 8,198 hotels priced across the tracked cities — 46% of the market — in 20 cities.
Is Hotels.com usually the cheapest site?
Hotels.com had the lowest price in 20% of the 40,043 contests it took part in on 17 September 2026 — stays that at least one other site quoted too. That places it 5th of the 26 sites with a track record; Trip.com leads at 66%.
Is Hotels.com cheaper than the other booking sites?
Hotels.com's price typically sits within 1% of the median site quoting the same stay — it is the market, neither a discounter nor a premium. That is the median over 40,043 contests: half the time the gap was smaller, half the time larger, and the per-hotel board on each page shows the actual one.
Where is Hotels.com the cheapest most often?
Rome: Hotels.com had the lowest price in 30% of its 3,911 contests there. Its weakest is Warsaw, at 2%.
What do these percentages measure?
Every figure here comes from stays at least two sites priced on the same day: how often Hotels.com had the lowest price (ties count), and how far its price sat from the median site, taken as the median over all its contests. A site with fewer than 200 contests or under 5% of the hotels is left out of the ranking — one lucky week is not a track record.
When were these prices last checked?
As of 17 September 2026: every figure here is a quote read from the site on that collection day, the latest of which was 17 September 2026. Nothing is live — a site can have moved since — so treat the numbers as the state of the market at collection, and the seller's page as the price.
Can I book through StayScope?
No — StayScope compares, it does not sell. Each offer is a link to the seller that quoted it; the reservation, the payment and the cancellation terms are the seller's.
Figures as of 17 Sep 2026.