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Public Roadmap for SerpApi, LLC (https://serpapi.com)
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[Google Hotels API] Price difference in our generated HTML compared Google Hotels UI #1817

Open alexbarron opened 1 month ago

alexbarron commented 1 month ago

In our HTML response, we're listing prices including fees and taxes from the lowest field. However Google Hotels shows prices before taxes and fees as we return in before_taxes_fees.

Booking "Generator Barcelona" directly with the hotel is $85 before taxes and fees, and $104 including those.

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Booking through HostelWorld is $94 before taxes and fees, and $104 including those.

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Actual Google Hotels lists $85 and $94 for these booking sites as we have in before_taxes_fees.

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sonika-serpapi commented 1 month ago

It seems like Google's default price provided is actually Nightly price with fees but excluding taxes. It was confusing to the customer how the pricing data from Google matches up to the fields we have in our API. It would be great if we could somehow determine whether the Google search considered taxes, fees, or neither, and which response parameter maps to the default Google price shown for a hotel. Intercom