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Avoid paying full price for your hotels

Tips for getting a cheap hotel in Holland

Whether you want a luxury Dutch hotel or a more modest one, you don't have to pay full price.

We'll start with discount hotels in Amsterdam and then give tips for all of the Netherlands:

• Hotwire.com—You select price and quality, but not a specific hotel prior to paying—with savings of up to 75% off.
  
  You have a choice of 5 hotel locations in Amsterdam:
  
  • City Center (main railway terminal and city transportation hub)
  • Museum Quarter (lively and atmospheric. Sometimes combined with City Center zone.)
  • Amsterdam East (more convenient than Amsterdam South for those without cars)
  • Amsterdam South (popular with those with cars)
  • Schiphol Airport (frequent trains to Amsterdam Central Station)
  
  Hotel quality ranges from 1 to 5 stars. Because Hotels.com uses nearly the same star ranking system, see it for examples.
  
  
• Priceline.com Hotels—You choose price and quality, but don't learn the name of your hotel until you pay.
  
  To find out typical hotels uses at each star level, check Priceline's Amsterdam airfare + hotel packages:
  
  • click on Priceline.com Vacations
  • enter any U.S. departure city
  • enter "Amsterdam" or use the pull down menu, and
  • enter any future date
    
    
• For your best Priceline bid,
  
  
  • Bid on one neighborhood at a time.
    
    If your first bid fails, you can re-bid immediately for the same hotel star level if you add another neighborhood (or change dates).
    
    
  • Start your bidding with a higher star quality rank.
    
    
  • If your first bid fails, immediately bid for the next lowest star level if you don't want to add a neighborhood or change dates.
    
    
  • For Amsterdam, bid 10 - 20% lower than the Hotwire cost for the same star level.
    
    
  • For Rotterdam, bid an average of 40% below the Hotels.com price for the same star level.
    
    Increase this slightly for 4-star hotels, but decrease this for any star level if you notice few vacancies on Hotels.com.
    
  
  NOTE: If you mistakenly begin bidding at a low star level, Priceline considers that you have bid for that level and all above it. As a result, you must wait 72 hours to make a follow up bid for the same dates and neighborhood.
  
  See our detailed Amsterdam neighborhood descriptions if you need help choosing an ideal hotel location.
  
  
• Hotels.com—For Amsterdam and throughout Holland, Hotels.com lists its discounted negotiated rates first.
  
  For these, you are guaranteed to receive the best on-line price of any site that allows you to book a specific hotel or resort prior to paying.