Hopper adds hotel price monitoring on iOS

One of the best and most useful travel apps is getting fifty-fifty better.

Montreal-based Hopper has announced that information technology's launching a new hotel price monitoring characteristic in Canada and across the world.

At launch, the company says users can book 270,000 hotel beyond ane,600 cities in 230 countries.

As with Hopper's handy flight monitoring tool, the new functionality allows individuals to monitor hotel price fluctuations every bit much equally a year in advance. One time you lot've picked a hotel, the app will send a notification when it spots a deal. According to Hopper, information technology'due south possible to save an average of $61 per night off peak prices if y'all book at the correct time.

Hopper on iOS now lets you track hotel rates

If yous don't take a specific hotel in mind, it's possible to filter hotels by neighbourhood, price, star rating and amenities.

What'due south more than, the app volition try to secure private deals for users, which they can volume directly inside the app.

Of course, no app in 2019 is consummate without an bogus intelligence component. In Hopper'southward instance, the visitor says that the more than a person takes reward of its new hotel feature, the better and more than proactive information technology will get at offering personalized recommendations. So say you always book four- and five-star hotels, the app will acquire to filter recommendations to show only the all-time hotels in a city.

Before today, the company had been beta testing the feature in New York for more than a year.

The new feature is available on iOS starting today, with an Android release scheduled sometime in the next few weeks.

Source: Hopper