[click] $1 a night hotel promotion at lastminutetravel.com

The folks at LastMinuteTravel.com are hosting a nifty promotion that could net you a $1 a night hotel stay at a top hotel. Emphasis on could. This is not a sweepstakes or a contest. It’s an online temporal scavenger hunt. Starting Monday January 26, LastMinuteTravel.com will offer its entire 15,000 hotel inventory for $1 a night, with a maximum stay of seven nights, to the first 500 clicksters that nab a reservation. The catch, besides the usual room availability, is that fantastic-hotel-deal aspirants will only get this steal of a rate during a 15-minute window, and the window will change every day.

Folks can sign up HERE for emails that promise to give clues as to which time which day for these 10 days: January 26, 27, 28, 28, 30, February 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, i.e., Monday through Friday for the two-week period starting January 26.

The promotion seems to be a tie-in to LastMinuteTravel.com’s taking its hotel component "undercover." Details on that to come. UPDATE: So, yes, this $1 a night promotion is linked to LastMinuteTravel.com's hotel component going "undercover," sometimes known as "opaque." You get plenty of details about the hotel itself, amenities, approximate location (i.e., you won't think you're booking in midtown Manhattan and end up in the Bronx). I used to know more about this. I think Priceline started this way, then added a transparent component as well? Help me out here! As for LastMinuteTravel.com, for $50, you can join its club, and book hotels transparently and get up to 65%. For details, click HERE.

I’m game. For rules, click HERE.

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