Expedia rate parity: what StayParity checks

Expedia's price, as Google Hotels shows it

Every check reads Google Hotels once for your hotel, for one stay and one guest count. Expedia's price is in that read, beside your own site's price and every other seller Google lists.

Expedia Group runs several travel brands, among them Hotels.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, CheapTickets, ebookers, Wotif and Hotwire (Expedia Group (opens in a new tab)). When Google lists one of them beside you, we read it as its own seller, under its own name. Expedia's own storefronts in different countries (Expedia.com, Expedia.co.uk and so on) count as one channel, Expedia.

We check each night in your horizon, up to 3 guest counts per hotel. The horizon is 30 nights on the free check and trial, and 60 or 90 on paid plans.

Like for like first

We match room, guests, board, cancellation terms and tax basis before calling anything an undercut. Where the data doesn't carry that detail, we compare the cheapest offer on each side, and your queue says which it was.

When Google shows Expedia below your price, and the gap clears both thresholds in your alert rule, we read your hotel's public page on Expedia for the same dates, guests and currency. That needs your Expedia listing URL on file, and it counts against your hotel's daily confirmation allowance.

• Expedia's page bears it out: the undercut is marked Confirmed.
• Expedia's page doesn't: its reading replaces Google's.
• The read fails or isn't made: the undercut stays in your queue, marked Seen once.

We confirm on Expedia itself only. A lower price on Hotels.com or Orbitz is reported as Google shows it, marked Seen once, and not read a second time on that brand's own site.

Member prices

Expedia Group lets hotels offer Members-Only deals: discounts for its loyalty members, which a hotel can stack on top of its other promotions (Expedia Group case study (opens in a new tab)). A member signed in to Expedia can see a lower price than a guest who isn't.

Our reads are signed out, so we don't see member prices. If a guest shows you an Expedia price lower than anything in your queue, check which member deals you run in Partner Central.

Package rates

Expedia Group's package promotions give travellers "a price discount when a participating hotel is booked as part of a trip", and a package is a booking of at least two travel products, such as a flight and a hotel (Expedia Group (opens in a new tab)). Expedia Group says package promotions can target specific markets and booking windows.

A package price covers more than the room, so it isn't a like-for-like comparison with your room rate. We read the room on its own, so package prices aren't in our checks.

Opaque rates

An opaque rate sells a room without naming the hotel until after payment. If you sell rates this way through any channel, check what they're priced at.

Because the hotel isn't named before booking, an opaque price can't be matched to your hotel by us or by anyone else who reads public prices.

B2B distribution rates

Expedia Group sells hotel rates through a B2B network it says has more than 70,000 travel partners. It says those partners work on a sell-rate model rather than a net-rate one, which gives the hotel more control over the selling price, and that it monitors for rate misuse (Expedia Group (opens in a new tab)).

If you offer these rates, some of the sellers Google lists beside you may be selling them. That's a possibility to check, not something we can see from a price.

The causes that apply to every channel

A comparison that isn't like for like, a price shown before tax or in another currency, a promotion you forgot, and a wholesale rate resold below yours. They're explained in our guide Why is Booking.com cheaper than your website?. The Booking.com-specific parts don't apply; the rest does.

Under the EU's Digital Markets Act, a designated gatekeeper can't stop a business offering different prices elsewhere. Booking is a designated gatekeeper; Expedia is not (European Commission, gatekeepers (opens in a new tab), as of 29 September 2026).

So for Expedia, two things decide what it can ask of your prices:

• Your contract. Read what it says about your prices on other channels and on your own site. We haven't seen Expedia's current standard terms and can't tell you what yours say.
• The law. Parity clauses fall under EU and national competition law, and Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland also have laws against parity clauses with booking platforms. The details and sources are in our EU rate parity guide. We found no Greek statute on parity clauses.

None of this is legal advice. If your contract matters to a pricing decision, ask a lawyer to read it.

• Member prices. Our reads are signed out.
• Package prices. We read the room on its own.
• Opaque rates. The hotel isn't named, so there's nothing to match.
• The Expedia app, or prices by country. Google is read from one fixed market, the US in English, and we don't set a country on Expedia.
• Test bookings. We don't make them.
• Longer stays. Every check is a one-night stay.

Booking.com and Google Hotels have their own pages.