From the folks who brought you the best place for rental car deals, AutoSlash.com, HotelSlash is the best way for many folks to get the lowest prices on hotels. This is perfect for when you’re staying outside of a chain where you have status, or when price is more important to you than hotel points and elite benefits.

HotelSlash saves you on hotel stays in two ways.

1. they have membership site discounted rates, and they pass on much of the savings to you
   
2. they track hotel prices and prompt you if rates fall in order to get you rebooked

You can ‘book direct’ through a chain and earn hotel points, status credit, and receive benefits during your stay. Or you can book through a third party – public rates on Expedia and the like won’t generally be lower, but membership sites aren’t subject to rate parity rules and chains don’t honor best rate guarantees.

Some of these sites earn phat commissions, while HotelSlash will generally pass much of the commission back in the form of a lower rate. And they’ve been delivering the best rental car savings for ages through their sister site. I’ve used AutoSlash since 2010, and I’ve used HotelSlash for non-chain stays and where the savings was big enough to forego the points.

They have a Black Friday offer of 7% off with coupon code BLACKFRIDAY on all prepaid bookings made through Tuesday. Apply the discount on the checkout page, and it will reduce the cost of their in many cases already cheaper rates.

In order to offer their ‘membership’ rates that are exempt from rules requiring them to offer the same higher prices as hotel website direct rates, they have to charge for membership. That’s currently $49.95 per year. But View From The Wing readers can currently sign up using promo code VFTW and that fee is waived. This is lifetime free membership and you should jump on this while it’s available.

There’s no cost to take advantage of it, and it lets you add HotelSlash to your toolbox checking for the lowest hotel rates. And you can book wherever you wish and just have HotelSlash monitor the prices of your reservations for you in case rates drop. That way they do the legwork to earn your business.

And since it’s lifetime free membership, no credit card is required at signup. So there’s no reason not to sign up.