{"id":270806,"date":"2025-11-19T02:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/270806\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:27:10","slug":"hotel-adverts-banned-by-watchdog-over-misleadingly-cheap-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/270806\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel adverts banned by watchdog over misleadingly cheap rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ASA found that the advertised prices were only available for a single night&#8217;s stay, warning Travelodge in future to ensure deals are available &#8220;across a range of dates&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Travelodge spokesperson said it recognised the need for clarity and transparency in pricing and is working with Google to ensure its adverts are clear and comply with the ASA&#8217;s guidelines. It said the relevant advert was removed before the ASA&#8217;s ruling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Similar findings were issued against Booking.com and hotel group Accor, while staycation chain Butlins was criticised for changing the deadline of a sale it promoted via email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Accor told the ASA it believed its adverts were accurate as rooms were available at or below the headline prices in the days following their publication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Booking.com sent the watchdog a screenshot demonstrating that seven bookings had been made at the prices it advertised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson told the BBC that Booking.com accurately displays price and availability at the time advertisements are shown and will work with the ASA &#8220;to address any outstanding questions they might have&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ASA found that the advertised prices were only available for a single night&#8217;s stay, warning Travelodge in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-270806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}