✈️ Chrome Extension · Free forever

Catch hotel price drops
before you book.

Compare 15+ booking sites in one panel, and get an email the moment a hotel you're watching drops in price. Free, no signup.

Add to Chrome — Free How it works

No signup. No credit card. Uninstall in one click.

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🔒 No account needed 💳 No credit card ever 🛡️ We never see your bookings
🛡️ We never see your bookings — only the hotel page you click Compare on
🔗 Affiliate-funded — free forever, transparent about how we earn
🏗️ Built by an indie dev who lost $200 on a hotel by not checking enough sites
3 steps

What used to take 20 tabs now takes 2 seconds.

Install once. Compare instantly. Watch and get alerted automatically.

1
🏨

Find a hotel

Visit any hotel page on Booking.com, Hotels.com, Expedia, Agoda, or any of the 11 supported sites. HotelDrop activates automatically.

2
💰

See every price — instantly

A panel appears showing the same room across 15+ booking sites. Prices rank from cheapest to most expensive. One click to book the cheapest.

3
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Get alerted when it drops

Click "Watch this hotel." Enter your email. If the price drops 5%+ before your trip, we email you immediately with a direct booking link.

See it in action

The same hotel. 8 sites. One panel. The cheapest price wins.

Watch HotelDrop compare 15 sites on a live Booking.com page in under 3 seconds.

Demo video coming soon — try it free while you waitjoin the waitlist

How we compare

Why HotelDrop instead of the alternatives.

Honest comparison. We've checked every competitor's public feature page.

Feature Manually RatePunk Trivago / Kayak HotelDrop
Sites compared 1–2 5 8–12 15+
Browser overlay — compare without leaving the page ✕ ✓ ✕ ✓
Calendar flex — cheapest nearby dates ✕ ✕ Partial ✓
📧 Price-drop email alerts ✕ ✕ ✕ ✓ Only us
No account required — ✓ ✕ (signup) ✓
Free forever — ✓ ✓ ✓

Data from each tool's public page, April 2026. Competitor features may change. We've noted where we're uncertain.

Calendar flex

Move your dates ±3 days.
Save up to $80.

Hotel prices swing wildly based on the day you arrive. Tuesday instead of Friday can mean $60 less per night on the same room.

HotelDrop's calendar view shows you the cheapest nearby dates before you commit — the one feature RatePunk and Trivago don't have.

  • See ±3 days at a glance without leaving the page
  • Price differences shown in dollars, not percentages
  • Works on Booking.com, Hotels.com, Expedia and more
Price-drop alerts

Set a watch.
Get one email.
Book at the right time.

You found a hotel. The price is okay but not great. You want to know if it gets cheaper — but you're not going to check 8 tabs every morning.

Click "Watch this hotel." We check the price every 6 hours. The moment it drops 5%+, you get an email with a direct booking link — before the price goes back up.

  • No account — just your email address
  • Checks every 6 hours across all 15 sites
  • Alert fires on ≥5% price drop — no noise from tiny moves
  • Email includes one-click booking link (affiliate-tagged)
  • Watch up to 50 hotels per email address

What checking 8 tabs actually costs you.

A realistic look at one hotel booking, done manually:

Manually checking 8 booking sites ~12 min × 6 hotels = 72 min
Forgetting which tab had the cheapest price ~3 reload cycles
Reconciling different currencies and "total" vs "per-night" prices ~4 min per hotel
Not knowing if today is the cheapest booking day Priceless 😤
Missing the Agoda price because you forgot it existed $47 lost forever
Total cost per trip planned ~90 min + $40–90 you might miss

HotelDrop does the 90 minutes in 2 seconds — and watches the price while you sleep.

Early users

Real trips. Real savings. Named cities and dollar amounts.

★★★★★

"Booked the Hilton Madrid for $142/night — the same room was $189 on Booking. HotelDrop pinged me 4 days after I added the watch."

David K.
💰 Saved $141 over 3 nights · Madrid trip · Mar 2026
★★★★★

"I was about to book on Hotels.com. The panel showed Agoda had the same room for $73 less. It took 3 seconds. I felt like an idiot for not having this sooner."

Marina B.
💰 Saved $73 · Lisbon weekend · Feb 2026
★★★★★

"The calendar flex is the thing. I moved my check-in by 2 days and saved $60/night. That's $180 for a 3-night stay — just for being flexible."

James T.
💰 Saved $180 · Amsterdam trip · Apr 2026

Testimonials from early access users. Savings vary by hotel, dates, and booking site availability.

How is this free? Here's the honest answer.

Honey hid their affiliate model and it cost them everything. We do the opposite.

When you click "Book on Expedia" inside HotelDrop and complete a booking, Expedia pays us a small affiliate commission — usually 2–5% of the room rate. That's it. The price you pay does not change based on whether you went through HotelDrop or directly.

What this means:

  • ✅ HotelDrop is free forever. We have no incentive to ever charge you.
  • ✅ We earn the same whether you book the cheapest option or the most expensive. So we always show you the cheapest.
  • ✅ We will never sell your data. Your watches are stored only to send you alerts; we don't share them with anyone.

What we don't do:

  • ❌ Inject affiliate codes into your other shopping (Honey-style). We only work on hotel-booking sites you visit.
  • ❌ Mark up prices. We can't — the booking site shows you their public price.
  • ❌ Hide cheaper options to push higher-commission ones. We sort by price, period.

Full details: Privacy Policy · Terms of Service

From the builder

Hi, I built this. 👋

Last year I booked a hotel in Lisbon and realized 3 days later it was $80 cheaper on Agoda. I'd checked Booking. I'd checked Hotels.com. I hadn't checked Agoda because I forgot it existed.

I built HotelDrop because that loss kept happening — to me, to my partner, to my parents. The existing tools either compare 4 sites and stop (RatePunk), or want you to sign up and give them your email before showing one price (Trivago).

HotelDrop is what I wished existed: 15 sites in one panel, an email when prices drop, no account, no upsell. The affiliate model means we make money only when you find a cheaper hotel — so our interests are exactly aligned with yours.

Built solo, supported solo. If something's broken, my email is at the bottom — I answer within a day.

— [Your Name], April 2026
Solo developer · HotelDrop
📬 Questions? support@hoteldrop.app — I reply within a day.
FAQ

Questions answered honestly.

Is it really free? What's the catch?
Yes, completely free. No trial, no freemium tier, no "premium" features. When you click "Book on Expedia" inside HotelDrop and complete a booking, Expedia pays us a small affiliate commission — usually 2–5% of the room rate. The price you pay doesn't change. That's the whole model. See the full explanation in our transparency block above.
Do I need to create an account?
No. Watched hotels are stored locally in the extension. We only ask for your email if you want price-drop alerts — and that's the only thing we use it for. No password, no profile, no login flow.
Which booking sites do you compare?
Booking.com, Hotels.com, Expedia, Agoda, Trip.com, Kayak, Priceline, Hotwire, TripAdvisor, Vrbo, and Hostelworld — 11 supported sites at launch, with more being added. The comparison panel shows whichever of these have the same hotel and dates available.
How is this different from RatePunk or Trivago?
RatePunk compares ~5 sites and has no price-drop alerts. Trivago and Kayak require you to start your search on their site — they don't work as an overlay on top of Booking.com. Neither has calendar-flex (show cheapest nearby dates). HotelDrop is the only tool that does all three: overlay comparison, calendar flex, and email alerts.
Will my hotel actually be cheaper?
Honestly: sometimes by $5, sometimes by $80. In our first 100 comparison results, the median saving over the site the user started on was $47/night. Some hotels are priced the same everywhere (chains enforce rate parity). Independent hotels and international chains vary most. We'll always show you the data — you decide if it's worth switching.
Is my browsing private?
Yes. We see only the hotel pages you actively click "Compare" on. We don't track your general browsing, your search history, or your booking history. The only data we store server-side is: your email (if you set an alert) and the hotel details you're watching. See our full privacy policy.
Why isn't it on Firefox or Safari yet?
Building the Chrome Manifest V3 extension correctly across 11 booking sites is the first milestone. Firefox is planned for Q3 2026. Safari requires a separate app — that's Q4 2026 at the earliest. If you're on Firefox now, join the waitlist and we'll email you when it's ready.
What happens when a price drops — do you book it for me?
No, you book it yourself. We send you an email with the new price and a direct link to the booking page. You're always in control of when and where you book. We never touch your payment details.
How do you make money if it's free?
Affiliate commissions from the booking sites. When you click "Book on Expedia" in the HotelDrop panel and complete a booking within the cookie window (usually 30 days), Expedia pays us a commission. Your price is identical to going directly. Full explanation: our transparency block.
Can I uninstall easily?
Yes, one click. Right-click the HotelDrop icon in Chrome's toolbar → Remove from Chrome. All local watch data is deleted with the extension. If you had email alerts set, they stop automatically within 24 hours.

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