Bargaining for a room

If I'm going to be staying for a few nights in one place then I may ask if they can reduce the price. They will either say yes or no...

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<hr>They will either say yes or no... <hr></blockquote>Or smile apologetically, which also means no...

If you can not afford SE Asia, stay home...

Welcome to the Thorn Tree moron (Poster #3) No one suggested beating down an Asian hotel ownere in europe, my home country or anywhere else.

Willy79 I believe it depends on the country or the style of hotel. I never bother, typicly the towns I stay in have no guest houses for over $5 anyway. Often the owner finds ways to make my stay nice anyway through to places of interest, good restaurants, and so on. If offered a room at what I believe to be above market prices I ask for the "regular room". I also never use my guidebook to look for rooms, often just taking the first I come to.

Nothing wrong with asking. Either you'll get a discount or you won't. It's not complicated...

This subject for some reason always gets such extreme views and comments. When I arrive at a GH I try and engage with the owner, suss out the place, food, staff and generally get to know them with a little banter. A throw away comment about if they can knock some off the price is really neither here or there.

I think many guests would be surprised how often you can get 'something' thrown in extra...

So fredso who's teerak are you, Tims or the mook?

bye bye fredso....

That's why I wrote "fredso" and not "#7", that privilege will soon go to you mozzies...

still we both will looked like loonies when any trace of him is wiped out...wonder what nang nicky thinks of this guy.