Hotel prices have increased across European cities this month – including the UK – in some cases by as much as 58 per cent – according to the monthly trivago Hotel Price Index (tHPI) reported by comparison site trivago.co.uk. Travellers will pay an average of £10 more for their hotel room this month, with the average price per night jumping from £87 in March to £97 in April, based on the 50 most popular European cities on trivago.
5 Largest Month-on-Month UK Hotel Price Increases
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Price increases in the UK are less pronounced compared to European cities (see below) but still significant, with prices up by 20 per cent in Bournemouth (to an average of £89 per night) and 17 per cent in Bath (£140 per night).
Price hikes in warm or coastal destinations
Denise Bartlett, UK Public Relations: “Although it is common for hoteliers to increase their prices during the summer season, it is unusual to see such large price hikes from one month to the next. In the UK, travellers can expect to pay up to an average of £20 more for their hotel stay (for example, in Bath), whereas overseas some cities are an average of £61 more expensive (Monaco).
“It is interesting to note that many of the cities with large price hikes are in warm or coastal destinations (overseas: Seville, Florence, Porto, Milan, Monaco and Nice; in the UK: Bournemouth and Southampton) suggesting the inflated prices are in anticipation of the summer season.”
10 Largest Month-on-Month European Hotel Price Increases
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Seville has the largest month-on-month price increases, with prices up an average of 58 per cent from £66 per night in March to £104 in April. Also with large price increases are Venice (up 52 per cent to £172), Amsterdam (up 46 per cent to £147), Prague and Florence (both up 40 per cent to £57 and £88, respectively).
Among the most expensive cities this month are Monaco (average of £253 per night), Geneva (£190), Venice (£172) and London (£167).
About trivago
trivago is the world’s largest online hotel search site, comparing rates from over 700,000 hotels on over 200 booking sites worldwide. trivago integrates over 140 million hotel ratings and 14 million photos in order to make finding the perfect hotel easier for users. Over 80 million visitors per month find their ideal hotel by using trivago’s various filters and in turn save an average of 36% per booking. trivago was founded in 2005 in Düsseldorf, Germany and currently operates 50 international country platforms in 31 languages.
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