“Seems like a trap — Was about to book a “4star hotel” and they showed me a “preview of one room in this hotel”…. I was like …. No 4 star hotel has a on wall AC/heater unit… reverse-image searched and it came back with Holiday Inn Express…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 505 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.8 ★144,565 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
116 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Save even more with exclusive, last-minute travel deals in the Hotwire app. Hot Rate® deals make booking travel easy, exciting, and affordable!
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Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 18.8.6 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 18.8.6, updated 2026-07-30.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Surprise charges: raised by 29 distinct reviewers (5.7% of 505 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 505 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Lost money and new poor UX — The new UI/UX has many bugs. For example if you click sign in after starting a booking the app freezes. More importantly my last booking was at a hotel that was already full booked. I showed up and was told…”
“worst customer service — we are tired and book a room, took our money right away. we went to the hotel they can't find the reservation and saying that they are fully booked. we called hoteire and the customer representative said that he's…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 18.8.6.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.