Do you book direct or through booking.com/third party site? Here is a step by step guide to booking hotels for less! I use to only book through booking.com then I realized booking direct can save you so much money! However it was a pain to search and search and search and I felt like google reviews weren’t accurate to the stay itself. So I use booking to find the hotel I want then I go search for the hotel’s website to find and usually book a cheaper stay!