Hotel and Travel Deals Blog

Yesterday we launched (what we humbly think is) the world’s best travel deal email product. We’re really excited about bringing this product to market, and here’s why we think it’s important and something you will enjoy:

DealBase Alert Email

• It’s endlessly customizable to your interests. Unlike other travel deal newsletters which send the same content to everyone, you get to choose the destinations and types of hotels that interest you. This means you’ll receive deals that are far more relevant and interesting, as they match your preferences. And you never get deals for places you have no intention of visiting. For example, my wife hates going to Las Vegas – so her alerts include many great places, but never deals for Vegas.
• It’s an alert, not a newsletter. You’ll only hear from us when we have an interesting deal for you, and then you’ll hear right away, not on a certain day of the week (so you can get deals before they sell out.)
• It taps into our huge database of deals. DealBase has the world’s largest collection of hotel deals, promotions, offer codes, and insider savings – currently more than 27,000 deals. More than 100 new deals are added on any given day, about ten-times more deals than other sites.
• You’ll get the best deals, not just sponsor deals Our alerts are not advertorial, like the other guys – so you’ll be alerted of the best new deals, not just the deals from hotels that can afford to pay.

We have big plans for DealBase Alerts. Coming soon are more customization and delivery options. Sign up now, and we’ll keep you posted of new developments, right within your alerts!

Meanwhile, we’d love to hear from you about what you’d like us to add to make the “ultimate travel deal alert product”.

This week we updated our site with a couple new filtering methods on our city and hotel pages, that our users have been asking for:

- Filtering by a deal’s minimum required nights: If you know you’re only staying for 2 nights somewhere, make your browsing more efficient by leaving out any deals that require stays of 3 nights or longer. For example, if you’re planning a quick jaunt to Hawaii for the weekend, enter Hawaii in the search bar, and then use the dropdown list as shown below.

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We’ve had a busy March filled with product releases and improvements and wanted to share with you the highlights and how it makes DealBase.com even easier to find hotel deals:

Enhanced Deal Listings
Our biggest improvement to the site is to what we call our Deal Listing. This is the summary of a deal that appears on results pages like Las Vegas hotel deals, Golf hotel deals, or MGM Grand hotel deals.

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Today, we launched our weekly hotel deals e-mail newsletter, featuring top hotel deals hand-picked by our deal analyzers. Come over and sign up!
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Happy New Year to all our readers. Thanks to many of you for your feedback and dedication to making sure we provide the best information out there for consumers to make an informed decision on hotel deals, packages, and special discounts.

As we swing into the new year, we’re also debuting a new feature to our fans: Custom Deal Analysis.

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Over the weekend DealBase.com updated our site with 2 noteworthy changes:

1. We debuted our proprietary DealRank formula, which shows you the best-value deals based on a combination of a deal’s dollar value and its percentage savings. You can check it out on any city or hotel page.


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We’ve been busy over the past few weeks, and this afternoon we released a major upgrade to DealBase.com. Here are the highlights:

Sort and Filter Deals

A huge addition, and something we’ve wanted to do since day one, is give travelers filtering and sorting tools to help sift through the thousands of deals on DealBase.com to find the perfect deal for their needs. You can now filter our long lists of deals (over 600 hotel deals in New York City alone!) by star rating, price range and date range. So, for example if you want to stay in a 5 star hotel for around $250/night in NYC, you can find such a deal at the Alex Hotel (where you’ll be saving $147/night!)

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It’s hard for us to believe that it’s been 20 days since we took the covers off of DealBase.com. While the world seems to be focused on which startup is cutting staff or throwing in the towel, we continue to see a huge opportunity to build a better experience for finding travel deals and specials. We’re keeping our expenses very low (they never were high to begin with!) and are obsessively focused on delivering a product that helps you find great savings and value when you travel.

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We’re working hard to put the finishing touches on DealBase.com and looking forward to our launch in a few weeks.

One of the unique features of DealBase.com  you’ll be hearing a lot about is our Deal Analyzer. We developed it in response to our mission to demystify online travel deals. Specifically, It’s our interface and tool set for uncovering the true value of a deal, and it works by deconstructing a deal to it’s core elements and then comparing each of these elements to a regular price. The outcome is a very accurate understanding of the actual savings (or extra costs) by a deal price.

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To me the biggest problem with finding a true hotel deal is being able to accurately compare one deal to another.  Hotel deals are often complicated.  They are usually created to fill inventory and that inventory changes constantly.  So at DealBase, we have created a method to normalize all the important data that you need to make an informed decision.  Data like price, dates, extra benefits, availability dates, etc.

Dealbase also has the human element in the form of votes and editors, because it’s really helpful to know what others think of the deal. Opinions of others can be a great measure of how attractive a deal is and can help sort through the morass of data.

We are excited about leveraging web 2.0 functionality to the travel space to help you compare apples to apples and find better deals, faster!