About Best Way to Book

Best Way to Book compares the ways to book one hotel stay. It is independent: it is not run by a hotel, a bank or a travel agency, and it earns nothing from what you book.

What it does and does not know

On a hotel page, Best Way to Book fetches what each seller charges for your dates from Google Hotels, through a licensed data provider. It does not yet fetch prices in points, or know which card programs a given hotel is in, so you enter those. It knows each program’s usual terms and does the arithmetic the same way every time.

It leaves out benefits that cannot be priced: an upgrade that depends on the day, or how a hotel treats guests from one program compared with another. Those can matter more than $100. The program pages say what is known about them.

Where the terms come from

Program terms are read from the issuer or hotel group where they publish them, and otherwise from travel publications and advisors, named on each page. Terms checked October 11, 2026. If a term here is out of date, write to hello@madebyrobot.net.

Who makes it

MadeByRobot, LLC. The calculators run on your device. A price lookup sends only the hotel and the dates to our server. The site has no accounts, analytics or advertising.