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How to Actually Use ChatGPT and Perplexity to Find Hotel Deals in 2026

Six months ago, asking ChatGPT to find you a cheap hotel in Lisbon would have produced a polite, articulate, mostly useless answer. The model would list three hotels with confident descriptions of their amenities. Two of those hotels would no longer exist. The third would have changed hands. None of

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How to Find Hotel Deals During Summer's Most Expensive Weeks

Late June through mid-August is the worst time to book a hotel in most of the Northern Hemisphere. Rates rise 25-40% above shoulder season. Inventory tightens. The flexibility you'd normally use to negotiate down to a better deal mostly disappears. That said, even peak summer has savings if