Hotel Fares Taking Peaks and Valleys around the Globe, Survey Says

British tourists are able to take advantage of falling hotel prices in the last part of last year, while Glasgow offered some of the best value-for-money hotel deals in Europe, a survey by Hotels.com found.

Average one-night hotel prices in Glasgow in the period October-December were £64, an 11 percent drop on the same period in 2004. This puts the Scottish city only a short way behind the best value-for-money city in the survey –Budapest- where the average price in the last three months of 2005 was £60.

Based mainly on hotels in Europe and the U.S., the survey showed that prices also fell at hotels in other UK cities.

The average Manchester price in October-December for a one-night stay was £76, 4 percent down on the same period in 2004. Edinburgh fell 5 percent to £87, Dublin was down 11 percent at £75 and London also dipped 12 percent to £81.

Prices rose at some American hotels, with rates in New York –the most expensive city in the survey- going up 13 percent to £160, and Washington D.C. rates rising 9 percent to £110.

After New York, the highest rates were to be found in Dubai, where average prices rose 2 percent to £150.

Overall, European prices fell 8.7 percent in the last three months of last year compared with the same period in 2004, while American prices rose 2.3 percent.