FAQ
Everything worth asking before you join
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The basics
A curated hotel drop service with a private club attached. Every drop is found and vetted by a person, not a scraper. Free hotel alerts are two hand-curated drops a week, emailed to you and posted in the public community. The Club is $297 a year and gets you every drop by email, your own dashboard, the full playbook, and chat access to the community.
Google shows you today's price and has no idea whether it is good. Every hotelmaxx drop is checked by hand against the property's own price history, and comes with the stack to cut the price even further. We curate and find exclusive deals and savings even during peak seasons.
Sooner is always better. Open the email, check whether the dates and the property actually suit a trip you would want to take, and if they do, book it. Hotel pricing moves constantly and a rate that has fallen 30% can be back to normal within hours, sometimes a day or two at most. Nothing we send is reserved or held for you. If a drop looks right, treat it as something to act on that day rather than something to think about over the weekend.
Expect around three or more alerts in a normal week across your five countries. One alert per selected country every week is not guaranteed: some properties drop their rates far more rarely than others, and a drop only goes out when it is genuinely worth your time. That is deliberate. If we sent thirty a week, none of them would be worth opening.
Club members pick five countries for direct email and dashboard alerts, and can change them at any time. Every other country we cover stays browsable from your dashboard and in the community, so nothing is ever locked away. Your five simply come to you instead of you going to them.
The method
It is the stack. Start with a genuine rate drop, then layer everything that reduces the out-of-pocket cost: card statement and property credits, luxury booking programmes that add value at no extra cost, transfer bonuses that make a points rate absurd, and rate-drop rebooking on flexible reservations. Individually each one is small. Stacked in the right order, a $300 room routinely lands between $8 and $30.
No. Every drop leads with the straight cash price, which is already 25% or more below typical. The points and credit stack is the optional second layer for people who want to push it to 80 to 99% off. Plenty of members never touch it and still save hundreds a trip.
No. Everything uses published rates, public award charts, and card benefits exactly as the issuers intend them. There are no throwaway bookings, no fake status, and no tricks that risk your loyalty accounts. The edge is curation and knowing which benefits combine.
Yes. Every drop on the wall is a real booking with a confirmation and a receipt behind it. We publish the typical rate, the nights, and the true out-of-pocket total. No estimated or 'up to' numbers, and nothing is rounded in our favour.
Membership and the guarantee
$297 a year, billed annually, which works out at $24.75 a month. There is no monthly option. The guarantee is measured over your first 30 days and the annual commitment is what makes that promise worth making. Cancelling is one click from your dashboard at any time, and you keep access until the end of the year you paid for.
We'll find hotel deals offering at least $600 in combined potential savings across your five tracked countries within your first 30 days or refund your membership fee. No booking required. That $600 can span multiple stays and multiple sets of available dates. Every figure is measured against a clearly defined comparison price for the same property and the same room, and your dashboard tracks the running total live. If the window closes short, you get a full refund on request. No retention call, no argument.
The difference between the comparison price and the drop price, multiplied by the nights the rate covers, for every drop posted in your five countries during your first 30 days. It counts whether or not you book it, and it can span several different stays and sets of dates. The promise is that we surface the value, since we cannot control your calendar.
Two hand-curated drops a week, emailed to you and posted in the public community. They are real drops, not teasers, and they are bookable without a business, travel cards, or points. But they are whichever two we choose rather than your countries, and they arrive without the stack breakdown. The playbook is not included. Club members get every drop, their own five countries emailed directly, the full playbook, and chat access.
Because speed matters, and because it gives members somewhere to get together. The best drops last hours, not days, and Discord pushes an alert to your phone the second it is posted. It is also where members find hotels together, discuss the drops as they land, and browse the full list of countries rather than just the five they picked.
Not directly. You choose countries, and we send whatever genuinely good deals turn up there. In practice that is less limiting than it sounds. Every alert goes to everyone watching that country, prices range widely across 4 and 5 star properties so there is something for most budgets, and a drop almost always covers several sets of dates rather than one fixed window. Every alert is for stays at least a month out as a minimum, so you have room to plan around it rather than book on the spot.
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