Maya Bergstrom
Editor, Hotel Pricing Research · Lisbon, Portugal
Maya has spent the last eight years tracking how online travel agencies price the same room differently. Before Hotel Deal Scanner she ran rate-parity research for a boutique hotel group in Lisbon and wrote a weekly newsletter on loyalty programs. She personally books 60+ nights a year and tests every tactic she publishes.
Every comparison post on this blog is grounded in first-hand paired pricing. When a post says "we priced 16 hotels", the raw CSV is linked in the article and you can replicate the check. When we don't have data for a claim, we say so instead of inventing a percentage.
The goal is simple: cut the noise around hotel pricing and tell you exactly which moves drop the bill. If we get something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it.
How we research
- For comparison articles we pull paired prices for the same room on the same dates on each site, in USD, signed out, and publish the raw CSV alongside the post.
- For loyalty programs we cite the operator's own published terms rather than paraphrasing them.
- When we don't have first-hand data we frame the post as a guide and explicitly say what we're not claiming.
- When we recommend a third-party tool we disclose any affiliate relationship inside the post.