HotelConnect, our favourite hotel booking site are at it again, with half price hotels help you get away this summer!

Sound to good to be true, well I have personally used one of their deals before, an managed to get a hotel in Prague of £1 a night and so I can confirm that the deals are real.

So what are they offering this time?

55% off the 3 star Rydges Plaza Hotel in Dubai, located in the fashionable Al Diyafah Street allows easy and quick access to all Dubai’s major attractions and with seven internationally themed restaurants offer a mouth catering array of cuisine.
This deal runs from the 1st May to the 20 Sept 2009 and means that you can now stay there from £53 per person per night.

50% off the 3 star superior Metropolitan Deira Hotel in Dubai
This deal runs from the 16th May to the 20 Sept 2009 and means that you can now stay there from £38 per person per night.

As well as this they also have deals other hotels in Dubai, with up to 40% off and deals on hotels all around the globe, many of which are at beach holiday locations including a £9pp hotel in Athens or 48% off a 4 star boutique hotel in Barcelona. For more information check out HotelConnect

I don’t think So!

A few weeks ago I wrote about a £1 a night Cheap Hotel Deal being offered by HotelConnect and I decided that if the hotel location was right for me, I would take a look and see If I could purchase a few nights at a hotel myself, thinking that this offer may be just too good to be true. I set myself a reminder on my calendar to take a look at the website a few hours before the deal was set to go live.

In due course, I found out that the £1 a night deals were to be for hotels in Prague. Now I know that it is not a beach holiday location, but I have never been to Prague and I thought that a weekend city break would make a nice change and heck the hotels were only going to cost me £1 a night right?

The time for the deal to begin was at 10am, as that time arrived I went to the page and immediatly you could tell that there must be something up as the whole of the HotelConnect website had really slowed down, infact in some cases it had stopped. An offer like this must generate a huge amount of interest and I guess that their servers were just not able to handle the huge increase in traffic.

Anyway, with patience I could see that there were indeed hotels available and through trying a few times (their booking system crashed twice) I can confirm that I have now booked 2 nights at the Botel Racek Hotel Prague and it cost me exactly £2 fantastic! (see booking confirmation below)

According to HotelConnect I will be staying at “cosy comfortable boat hotel, close to the castle and within easy access to the old town of Prague. Rooms at the Botel Racek Hotel Prague are simple and functional cabins and are all en suite with a shower. You can enjoy Czech food in the restaurant or have a drink on the deck with great views over the river. ”

I have to admit that the Botel Racek Hotel was not my first choice, but as the £1 a night sign up page on their website says, all their 400+ £1 hotel rooms in Prague were sold out in 2 hours and so they were going fast and for the dates that were suitable for me, this was my only choice, but staying in a boat hotel could be fun.

I have to say that even though their site was really slow on the morning of the deal, it is usually great and I was even before booking this hotel deal, a big fan. A few days after booking the hotel, I got the conformation in the post, with a nice little map of the city of Prague… I can’t wait!

I hope that the promotion was a success for HotelConnect.co.uk and that they have another ones soon, but even if you missed it, they have many other offers on fantastic hotels, including 50% off in over 200 destinations, so go and check them out.

That’s right, HotelConnect.co.uk are offering hotel rooms for sale from £1 a night from Thursday 26th of February and the offer will continue until they run out.

You can really grab yourself a bargain and get a great cheap hotel deal that definitely won’t break your budget!

If you miss this offer on Thursday, HotelConnect.co.uk, have many other offers on fantastic hotels, including 50% off in over 200 destinations.

HotelConnect who?
HotelConnect were established in 1993 and are an independent award–winning accommodation specialist offering over 2000 handpicked and honestly reviewed hotels in 200 destinations and specialise in quality hotel accommodation at excellent rates. They frequently feature great promotions on their website including “2 nights for the price of 1″, “Winter Sales” and “Summer of Free Nights” being regular favourites in the calendar. Furthermore, we always have up to 50% off hotels in top destinations worldwide.

50% Off Hotel Sale – This Friday Only:

As well as the fantastic offer from HotelConnect.co.uk, Lastminute.com are also offering an incredible 50% off selected hotels including this:

4* Barcelona 50% off if you book on the 20th Feb

As well as Barcelona they have a 50% off on a 4* hotel in Madrid, Amsterdam, Prague and a 3 star hotel in Paris. The only catch is you have to book on Friday the 20th of February.