Entry № 3 · 29 July 2026 · 5 min
What loyalty is worth
We joined Booking.com's loyalty program at two levels and re-priced 418 hotel-stays with each account. The badges promise ten to twenty percent. Here is what membership actually changed.
Where We Sleep · price research you can book
The same room,
around twenty percent less.
We run a booking engine and a journal that checks its prices in public: against Booking.com, Expedia and Hotels.com, hundreds of matched rooms at a time, names and numbers published. In our latest study we were cheaper on 99 percent of stays, by a median of 22 percent. Every room in the research is bookable right here.
Corpo Santo Lisbon Historical Hotel · the 28 tram passing the front door
Lisbon, Portugal
The journal
No listicles, no press trips. Each entry answers a question with our own booking data (which week Ibiza goes quiet, what a loyalty badge is really worth, who actually has the lowest price) and prints the numbers.
Tonight, somewhere
Every Lisbon hotel →Tonight the journal is in Lisbon.
Elsewhere in the network
- Hotels of EarthThe Earth's finest. Only.
- ChildFree Staysfor the nights when the pool should hold nothing louder than ice in a glass
- Suite for Twofor the nights that are an anniversary, or an apology, or nobody's business
- Hotels with Desksfor the nights bracketed by deadlines, when the desk matters almost as much as the bed
- Piste Hotelsfor the nights that end with boots by the door and snow still in your hair
- Thermal Staysfor the nights that begin underwater, at thirty-eight degrees
- PawFriendly Staysfor the nights when the third heartbeat in the room has a tail
- TeeTime Staysfor the nights that end early because the tee time is at seven
And when the question is simply everywhere, Sleepfare keeps the whole index.
Some nights we found the hotel.
The best nights, it was the other way around.
Good nights, found