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Google Hotels prices for your exact dates, without a browser

24 booking sites priced one Marriott for the same two nights. The hotel's own website came 21st. The problem I wanted hotel prices for specific dates. Not tonight's rates, not "from $79". Three nights in Paris, two adults, 12 to 15 November. Google Hotels has exactly that data. Every booking site that sells a room, its price for your dates, the total for the stay. The page just doesn't want to…

Google Hotels offers a tool that displays hotel prices for specific dates across various booking sites, without requiring a browser. This allows users to compare prices from 24 sites for the same hotel, with the hotel's own website coming in at 21st place. To use the Google Hotels Scraper, users need to provide their desired location, check-in and check-out dates, the number of adults, and their preferred currency.

The tool then searches for hotel prices, ranking them from cheapest to most expensive, and displays the cheapest and most expensive per night for each hotel. The Courtyard by Marriott Paris Gare de Lyon has the highest rate compared to other sites, showing that booking directly can often be the best deal. The Google Hotels Scraper can be used for various purposes, such as rate checks for a hotel, travel content and deal alerts, price history, and sanity checks before booking.

The tool does not require a Google account or cookies, and it can also handle spelling errors in city names by comparing the place Google matched with the user's input.

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