GeoRates
Compare hotel prices across countries, tax included
Booking platforms price regionally, so the same stay can be displayed at a different price depending on the country you browse from. GeoRates makes that visible: paste the link to your hotel on Booking.com, pick the room, board and cancellation terms, and it opens a separate session per country and reads the publicly displayed price for that exact room. Every amount is tax- and fee-inclusive and converted to euros at the live exchange rate, so the country stays the only variable. Differences below one percent are reported as no difference rather than as a find. Not a booking portal, no affiliate links, free and without sign-up.
Features
Checks one specific room across sessions from several countries. Always tax- and fee-inclusive, converted to euros at the live rate. Room, board and cancellation terms are fixed so the comparison is like for like. Differences below 1 percent are reported as no difference. Six languages, installable as a web app. Free, no sign-up, no affiliate links.
Use Cases
Checking a hotel you already picked before you book it. Deciding whether a VPN booking is worth the effort for a specific stay. Settling the is-it-cheaper-from-abroad question with an actual number. Comparing long stays where a few percent is real money.
Comments
I built GeoRates because I kept running into the same thing: the same hotel room shows a different price depending on which country you appear to be browsing from. Plenty of blog posts claim this, but nearly every comparison I found was sloppy - a tax-exclusive price in one country against a tax-inclusive one in another, or a non-refundable rate against a flexible one. So the savings evaporated at checkout. GeoRates fixes the room, the board and the cancellation terms, opens a separate session per country, and converts everything to euros at the live rate, tax and fees included. Anything under 1% is reported as no difference rather than dressed up as a find - I'd rather return an honest "nothing here" than a fake 0.3% win. It's a hobby project, free, no sign-up, and deliberately without any affiliate links to the platform whose prices it compares. Happy to answer anything about the approach, especially where you think the methodology is still too naive.
The tax-inclusive, same-room, same-cancellation controls are the part most of these comparisons get wrong, so good you fixed those first. One thing that bit me pulling Booking regional prices: the currency the session displays in matters as much as the country, since Booking sometimes shows a converted price with its own FX margin baked in rather than the property's native rate, and that margin alone moves the number a percent or two. Converting to euros at the live rate mostly washes it out, but if you read the displayed figure rather than the native-currency one it can still leak in. Genius/loyalty state is the other one worth pinning, a logged-out session and a cookied one from the same country can differ. Reporting sub-1% as nothing is the right call.
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I built GeoRates because I kept running into the same thing: the same hotel room shows a different price depending on which country you appear to be browsing from. Plenty of blog posts claim this, but nearly every comparison I found was sloppy - a tax-exclusive price in one country against a tax-inclusive one in another, or a non-refundable rate against a flexible one. So the savings evaporated at checkout. GeoRates fixes the room, the board and the cancellation terms, opens a separate session per country, and converts everything to euros at the live rate, tax and fees included. Anything under 1% is reported as no difference rather than dressed up as a find - I'd rather return an honest "nothing here" than a fake 0.3% win. It's a hobby project, free, no sign-up, and deliberately without any affiliate links to the platform whose prices it compares. Happy to answer anything about the approach, especially where you think the methodology is still too naive.
The tax-inclusive, same-room, same-cancellation controls are the part most of these comparisons get wrong, so good you fixed those first. One thing that bit me pulling Booking regional prices: the currency the session displays in matters as much as the country, since Booking sometimes shows a converted price with its own FX margin baked in rather than the property's native rate, and that margin alone moves the number a percent or two. Converting to euros at the live rate mostly washes it out, but if you read the displayed figure rather than the native-currency one it can still leak in. Genius/loyalty state is the other one worth pinning, a logged-out session and a cookied one from the same country can differ. Reporting sub-1% as nothing is the right call.
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