GoKawiilRita El Khoury / Android Authority
TL;DR Google already lets you monitor hotel prices across a city.
Now it’s expanding that tool to let you watch prices for individual hotels.
You can get an alert when prices change for the time period you’ve set.
With April now mostly behind us, summer feels closer than ever — and for a whole, whole lot of us, summertime means scratching that wanderlust itch and doing some traveling. Google already offers lots of tools and services that are perfectly suited towards helping out with travel — just last year we went hands-on to see how great Gemini could actually be as a travel guide — and now we’re leaning about Google’s latest upgrade, as Search gets better at finding you a killer hotel deal.
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Google first introduced its hotel price-tracking tool a little over a year ago. Just like you might use Google Flights to track prices and try to spot a deal, Google let you set filters for the type of hotel you were interested in, and then could track prices across a city to find you the best ones.
But what if you’re a little more picky than that? What if you’ve got a specific hotel in mind that you’d absolutely love to stay in again, if only the price made sense. Well, that’s exactly what Google’s latest update is built for — it’s expanding hotel price tracking to let you just monitor individual hotels.
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