DealBase.com is the world's best place to find hotel deals. You'll find deals from thousands of hotels and other sources, including email newsletters, exclusive hotel special offers, rewards clubs and programs and online travel agencies. In fact, we've got the largest collection of hotel deals and discount offers on the planet. All of these deals are presented in a consistent way, so you can easily compare them "apples to apples" (or "oranges to oranges" or "clowns to clowns." Whatever works for you.) And when you're ready to book, we link you directly to the hotel to make the reservation.

We take the ambiguity and complexity out of travel deals. We find the best deal for you. Period.

Why DealBase.com?

  Other Travel
Deal Sites
Pay-to-Play

No

You always get the best deals, not just advertiser deals

 Yes
Number of Hotel Deals

36,729

100x more deals means we have the deal that’s right for you

 Under 200
Calculation of Savings

Consistent

Our Deal Analyzer™ compares deals to regular prices

 Inconsistent

In early 2008, serial entrepreneurs Sam Shank, David Hehman and Howard Love were having dinner and brainstorming their next adventure. Sam had just sold TravelPost.com to Kayak and the travel deals space was fresh in his memory. He complained that when he was recently trying to book a guys reunion trip to Las Vegas, he couldn't find an all-encompassing travel deals service where deals could be searched, compared, analyzed and discussed. A few sketches, emails and dinners later, the foundation of DealBase.com emerged: a comprehensive, open platform for publishing travel deals, with a consistent, standardized presentation of information. Development started shortly thereafter in May, and the site launched in October.

What We're Doing Today

To focus our efforts and bring you the best product possible, we're concentrating on hotel deals in North America for now. We'll be expanding internationally and into new categories of travel deals soon. We'd love to hear what categories you'd like to see us do next.

Where We're Headed

We're a new site, and obsessive about bringing you the best travel deals site in the world. We invite you to take a close look, find a great deal and have a great trip, and then tell us about it. We answer every email. And if you come across a great deal that we're missing, post it and share it with the world. And don't forget to tell your friends!

Team

Sam Shank, CEO Sam previously founded and was CEO of TravelPost.com, the second-largest hotel review site (after TripAdvisor), which was acquired by SideStep and is now part of Kayak. Previous to TravelPost.com, Sam worked in comparison shopping at Excite, CNET and as one of the first employees of NexTag. Sam attended the University of Virginia and the Kellogg School of Management. Sam lives in San Mateo with his wife and two sons and enjoys golf, travel, and cycling.

David Hehman, CFO David has co-founded and sold 5 technology businesses: HealthDesk (HDSK), GetawayZone (VacationSpot/EXPE), MarketHome (CLAC), EscapeHomes (Roost/HomeAway), Pagewise.com (Demand Media). David is an active angel investor and a Board Member of the North Bay Angels.He received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science from University of California at Berkeley in December 1992, and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley, Hass School of Business in 1998. Each year, David holds a summit in Las Vegas for the startups he's involved with, as a founder, advisor or investor. David lives in Sebastopol with his wife and 2 sons.

Howard Love, Chairman Howard is a life long entrepreneur who has been starting and running companies for almost 30 years. He has been a founder or co-founder of over 15 companies. Notable successes include Inmark Development (software dev tools - sold to RogueWave), MarketHome (email marketing - sold to ClickAction), GetawayZone (online vacation rentals - sold to Expedia), PageWise (online media - sold to Demand Media), FlexJobs.com (job site for telecommuters - still operating), LoveToKnow (online media - still operating). Howard attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Colgate University. He currently lives in Hillsborough, CA with his wife and 3 children. Howard is a competitive cyclist and also enjoys skiing, golf, fly fishing, hunting and wine tasting.

Christopher Bailey, VP Development Chris has a passion for software technology, and has been working in the industry for 15 years. He loves learning about it, building software (yes, he played with Legos a lot as a kid), as well as teaching others. Chris has been an independent software developer and also recently architect and senior computer scientist for digital imaging web services at Adobe Systems. In addition, he has led and managed many engineering teams, been involved with multiple start-ups, and done a variety of consulting. Chris also thoroughly enjoys traveling, both domestically and internationally, whether vacationing with his family, or exploring new mountain biking trails with friends. Chris spends his free time with his family, or caught up in his other passions of cycling, espresso, Slow Food, and the environment.

Ross Weber, SVP of Business Development Ross comes to DealBase after a stint at Kayak.com as GM of TravelPost.com. He liked working on Sam's last website so much that he felt compelled to join the DealBase team. Prior to Kayak, Ross was at VirtualTourist.com (VT), the majority of time which was spent as Vice President of Business Development for their meta-search engine, OneTime.com. VirtualTourist.com and OneTime.com were acquired by Expedia's TripAdvisor property in July of 2008. Ross received a B.A. from Loyola Marymount University with a double major in English and Communications. Ross’s favorite activities are snow skiing with his kids in the winter, and digging giant holes on the beach with them in the summer.

Liz Kao, Director of Product and Operations Liz and her team analyze the deals so you don't have to. Liz brings strategic and tactical perspectives to nimble groups, from years of product management, product marketing, and consulting experience honed on key launch teams at Salesforce.com, Oracle, and CNET. As an independent consultant, she has also advised non-profits and startups on a variety of software-as-a-service needs. Liz attended the University of California at Berkeley and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She lives in San Francisco and enjoys searching for undiscovered culinary delights, and traveling around a not-so-lonely planet.

Jessica Stout, Travel Editor Jessica not only appreciates a good travel deal, but also enjoys researching how, and where, to travel to next with these deals. She brings years of editorial experience for lifestyle and travel publications, including Islands Magazine, Spa Magazine, Splendora.com, Delta Sky Magazine and Trazzler.com—and a passion for traveling. Jessica lived for a year in Barcelona, Spain, and spent half of 2008 backpacking through Africa, Central America and Mexico. She most recently was a cast member of The Amazing Race, Season 15. She attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, lives in Marin County and enjoys photography.

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Where we're located

DealBase.com is based in downtown San Mateo, but we have great people working for us around the world and we're always looking for more team members. If you're interested in joining our team and helping us build the largest deals site on the web, drop us a line.