A few weeks ago Pruvo, a new company in the hotel booking niche, contacted me to see if I wanted to give them a try. Why me? They saw the blog posts I wrote about AutoSlash. Pruvo figured if I liked using a car rental site like AutoSlash to save money, I’d like a site like Pruvo that saves me money on my hotel reservations. I agreed to test them out, and let them know up front that I would also be writing a review of my experience. Pruvo’s management team was very responsive to my emails and we were off to a great start.
Though it may seem obvious, let’s first talk about what a hotel booking site is. A hotel booking site finds the lowest price possible for hotel rooms. And in Pruvo’s case, even after you’ve made the hotel reservation. Pruvo doesn’t actually consider itself a booking site, but rather, they see themselves as a hotel rebooking site! But they sure do rely on hotel booking sites to monitor prices. Pruvo sees itself as a complementary service that is used after a hotel reservation is made.

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