LateRooms Hotel Deals

Rates and terms checked 19 September 2026 · Hotels · Compare100 editorial team

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LateRooms advertises United Kingdom rooms from £18 a night, England from £26 and London from £34, with free membership knocking up to 15% off rates at more than 100,000 hotels. Those figures were taken from laterooms.com on 19 September 2026. The site has specialised in short-notice bookings since 1999, when it began as a place to shift rooms hotels had not sold that day.

The company behind it is not the one that built the name. The original LateRooms collapsed on 1 August 2019 when its parent, Malvern Group, ran out of cash and called in KPMG, after Cox & Kings India — which owned 49% of the group — defaulted on loan repayments. The brand was bought by Snaptrip Group and relaunched in 2024. Book today and your contract is with Snaptrip Group Limited, company number 08774859, of LG.03 Cargo Works, 1–2 Hatfields, London SE1 9PG.

What that buys is a search covering the same wholesale hotel stock the trade uses, with two ways to pay: prepay in full at the time of booking, or reserve now and settle with the hotel at check-in or check-out. Thousands of rooms carry free cancellation, and the app is priced separately from the website, so it is worth checking both before you commit.

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Who you are booking with	Snaptrip Group Limited, company 08774859, trading as LateRooms; VAT 201864825; registered LG.03 Cargo Works, 1–2 Hatfields, London SE1 9PG
Lead-in prices	United Kingdom from £18 a night, England from £26, London from £34, City of London from £45, luxury London from £80 — checked 19 September 2026
Membership	Free to join; "save up to 15% on over 100,000 hotels"
How you pay	Prepaid in full at booking on some hotels, or "payment is taken directly by the hotel at check-in or check-out" on others
Who supplies the rooms	Hotelbeds and its hotel partners; LateRooms "act[s] as an intermediary" and the accommodation contract is with the supplier
Liability cap	"Our liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us for the booking"
Price Promise	Refunds the difference if the same room is found cheaper elsewhere, claimed within 24 hours of booking
Rules that apply	No financial regulator; hotel-only bookings sit outside ATOL, and the site names no ABTA membership or ADR scheme

£18 a night, and the cities where that number holds

The lead-in prices are published on LateRooms' own destination pages and they vary more than the headline suggests. United Kingdom shows from £18 per night; England from £26; London from £34; the City of London from £45; Greater London, which sweeps in the outer boroughs, from £92; and filtering London to luxury properties lifts the floor to £80. Abroad, the home page was showing Blackpool from £20, Amsterdam from £23 and Paris from £91 on 19 September 2026.

A lead-in price is the cheapest room the system can find on any date in the window, so it is a floor rather than a forecast. LateRooms is unusually candid about that in its own help text, which puts a three-star room at "between £70 and £120 per night", a four-star at "between £120 and £200 per night" and a five-star at "typically start at £200 per night". Those three bands are a better planning figure than the £18, and a shop that prints both is doing more than most.

Membership is the other lever. It is free, and the site claims savings of up to 15% at over 100,000 hotels — which on a £120 four-star room is £18, roughly the cost of the cheapest room in the country. The app also carries rates the website does not, so a serious price check means looking in both places.

The rooms are wholesale stock, and the wholesaler is listed in Madrid

LateRooms does not hold hotel contracts of its own for this inventory. Its accommodation booking terms say plainly: "We act as an intermediary: you make a booking through our platform, but the accommodation services are provided by Hotelbeds and its hotel partners." Hotelbeds is the business-to-business bed bank owned by HBX Group, and it is the largest of its kind.

That matters because it puts audited numbers behind the search box. HBX Group floated on the Spanish stock exchanges in February 2025, raising €725 million, and its results for the year to 30 September 2025, announced on 26 November 2025, show total transaction value of €8.2bn, up 8%; revenue of €720m; adjusted EBITDA of €431m at a 60% margin; operating free cash flow of €437m; and a net loss after tax of €70m, with net debt down 63% to €397m. The group's own site describes around 60,000 travel distributors across more than 170 countries, 3,500 staff and seven billion searches a day.

For a guest, the practical consequence is a three-party booking: you pay LateRooms, Hotelbeds supplies the room, and the hotel provides the stay. If something goes wrong at the desk, the hotel's answer is often that its contract is with the wholesaler, not with you.

Two ways to pay, and only one of them is well protected

The booking terms describe both models: "For some hotels, you must pay the full amount at the time of booking", while "[f]or other hotels, payment is taken directly by the hotel at check-in or check-out." Cancellation and amendment rules "vary by hotel and rate type, and are determined by the Supplier", and a no-show is treated as a cancellation with no refund.

Pay the hotel directly on arrival and LateRooms has taken no money, so there is nothing to claim back from it. Prepay by credit card and section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 makes the card issuer jointly liable with the seller on purchases costing more than £100 and up to £30,000 — and paying only the deposit on a card is enough to claim the full price. Debit and prepaid cards fall back on chargeback, which MoneyHelper describes as an agreement between Visa, Mastercard and American Express rather than legal protection, with a 120-day claim window.

A hotel room booked on its own is not a package holiday, so no ATOL certificate applies and none is offered. The site names no ABTA membership and no alternative dispute resolution scheme, and its terms are "governed by the laws of England and Wales" with disputes going to the English courts.

What the compared price leaves at the hotel desk

The terms list a set of charges that are settled on site rather than online: "local taxes, resort fees, deposits, incidental charges, or security deposits" are "payable directly at the hotel". None of those appears in the number a shopper is comparing across sites, and city tourist taxes in particular are now charged across much of Europe and are creeping into British cities.

The rules on how prices are shown have tightened since the LateRooms name last meant anything. The consumer provisions of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 took effect on 7 April 2025, banning drip pricing — quoting one figure and adding compulsory fees as the customer proceeds — and giving the Competition and Markets Authority power to fine up to 10% of global turnover without going to court first. The same Act carries an explicit prohibition on fake and incentivised reviews.

It is worth being accurate about what LateRooms is and is not bound by. It was not one of the 31 accommodation booking businesses that gave the CMA undertakings on 13 September 2019 over scarcity messaging, discount claims and the effect of commission on search order; six of those — Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Hotels.com, ebookers and trivago — had already given formal undertakings in February 2019. The current site is under the general law rather than any case-specific commitment.

Who actually awards the stars on a British hotel

Star ratings shown on LateRooms listings are supplied by the property or by third parties, not assessed by LateRooms. In Britain the assessment that does exist is run by the AA and VisitEngland, whose inspectors visit as mystery-shopper guests and grade hospitality, service, bedrooms, bathrooms, cleanliness and food. The AA awards black stars from three to five, adds silver stars for superior housekeeping and food, picks red stars annually as the best hotels at each level, and has a "Quality Assessed" grade for properties that pass a full inspection without earning a star rating.

The other number on a listing is a guest score — Claridge's showed 9.6 from 588 reviews on 19 September 2026, the Ned 9.2 from 1,005 and Park Grand Hyde Park 7.4 from 1,002. Those are crowd averages collected by booking platforms, not an inspection, and the two should not be read as though they measure the same thing. A five-star guest average on an unassessed property tells you people enjoyed their stay; it does not tell you the bathrooms were checked by anyone.

Snaptrip Group on paper

Snaptrip Group Limited was incorporated on 14 November 2013 as Rest Easy Rentals Limited, became Rest Easy Group Limited on 19 September 2019 and took its present name on 12 May 2021. Its SIC code is 47910, retail sale via mail order houses or via the internet, and it is registered for VAT under 201864825. Persons with significant control are Matthew Richard Fox and Forward Partners General Partner Limited, both notified on 6 April 2016; Luke Smith was appointed a director on 24 March 2022. Matt Fox, the group's chief executive, described LateRooms as "one of the country's biggest and most popular hotel booking sites in the early part of the 21st century" when the relaunch was announced.

The accounts are where the trail stops. The company files total exemption full accounts — the small-company regime — with the latest made up to 30 November 2025 and filed on 20 July 2026, and the next set not due until 31 August 2027. Small-company accounts carry a balance sheet but no profit and loss account, so there is no published turnover, no booking volume and no customer count for the business taking your money. The only audited revenue anywhere in this chain belongs to HBX Group, and that is the supplier rather than the seller.

The Price Promise has a hole where last-minute bookings go

LateRooms promises that "if you do spot the same hotel room cheaper elsewhere online, we'll do the decent thing and refund the difference". The claim form must be submitted within 24 hours of booking, and the comparison has to be the exact same room online — same room type, same hotel, same check-in and check-out dates, same conditions such as breakfast and parking — in the same currency.

The exclusions are where it thins out. Rates that have gone by the time the claim is investigated do not count, nor do cancelled bookings, membership or loyalty rates, reward programme prices, opaque rates where the hotel is not revealed until after booking, and — the awkward one — bookings made less than 24 hours before arrival. A site whose entire proposition is the last-minute room excludes the last-minute room from its price guarantee.

There is a second mismatch worth knowing about. The consumer site says "over 100,000 hotels"; the pitch on the LateRooms affiliate programme says "over 1 million properties worldwide". Both cannot be describing the same catalogue, and neither page explains the difference.

Where a last-minute room fits the British hotel year

Domestic demand is the backdrop. VisitBritain's figures published on 11 June 2026 show British residents took 87 million overnight trips in England during 2025, 3% down on 2024, while total domestic tourism spend rose 3% to £78bn and spend on overnight trips rose 6% to £29bn. Fewer trips, more money on each one.

The accommodation mix moved with it: the share of trips including a hotel stay rose to 40%, against 35–36% in previous years. Hotels are taking a larger slice of a slightly smaller market, which is the condition in which unsold rooms get discounted late — the thing this site was built to sell, and a reasonable argument for checking it within a day or two of travelling rather than weeks ahead.

Where it wins

Lead-in prices are published openly by destination — £18 a night across the UK, £26 in England, £34 in London — rather than hidden behind a search
Free membership advertised at up to 15% off more than 100,000 hotels, with no subscription and no minimum spend
A choice between prepaying and paying the hotel at check-in or check-out, with free cancellation on a large part of the stock
The booking terms name the supplier outright, so it is possible to work out who holds the contract before paying
Realistic price guidance in its own help text — £70–£120 for three stars, £120–£200 for four, £200-plus for five — instead of leaving the lead-in price to do the talking
Inventory comes from Hotelbeds, whose parent HBX Group publishes audited results and put €8.2bn of transaction value through in the year to 30 September 2025

Where it falls short

The company behind the brand publishes no turnover. Snaptrip Group Limited files total exemption full accounts, so the latest filing, made up to 30 November 2025, carries a balance sheet and no profit and loss account
Liability is capped at what you paid: "Our liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us for the booking", which will not stretch to a missed event or a replacement room at a higher rate
There is no telephone number and no published complaints procedure — contact is by email to mybooking@laterooms.com — and the site names no ombudsman or alternative dispute resolution scheme
The Price Promise excludes bookings made less than 24 hours before arrival, opaque rates, membership and loyalty rates, which removes it from much of what a last-minute site sells
Local taxes, resort fees, deposits and incidental charges are payable at the hotel and sit outside the price being compared, so two sites' figures are not necessarily like for like
Star ratings on listings come from the property or third parties rather than an AA or VisitEngland inspection, and the guest scores beside them are crowd averages, not an assessment
The catalogue is described as "over 100,000 hotels" to shoppers and "over 1 million properties worldwide" to affiliates, with no explanation of the gap
Hotel-only bookings carry no ATOL protection and the site claims no ABTA membership, so a card payment is the practical safety net

Common questions

Is LateRooms the same company it used to be?

No. The original business collapsed on 1 August 2019 when its parent Malvern Group ran out of cash and appointed KPMG as administrators, after Cox & Kings India, a 49% shareholder, defaulted on loan repayments. Snaptrip Group bought the brand and relaunched the site in 2024. Bookings today are made with Snaptrip Group Limited, company number 08774859.

How cheap do the rooms actually get?

On 19 September 2026 the site advertised United Kingdom rooms from £18 a night, England from £26, London from £34 and the City of London from £45. Those are floors rather than typical prices; LateRooms' own guidance puts a three-star room at £70 to £120 a night, a four-star at £120 to £200 and a five-star at £200 or more.

Do I pay LateRooms or the hotel?

Both models exist and the rate decides which. Some hotels require the full amount at the time of booking; on others, payment is taken by the hotel at check-in or check-out. Local taxes, resort fees, deposits and incidental charges are paid at the property either way.

What protection do I have if the room is not there?

LateRooms limits its liability to the amount you paid it for the booking, and no ATOL or ABTA protection applies to a hotel-only reservation. Where you prepaid more than £100 on a credit card, section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 makes the card issuer jointly liable with the seller on purchases up to £30,000. Debit card payments rely on chargeback, which is a card scheme agreement rather than a legal right and normally has to be raised within 120 days.

Is the Price Promise worth relying on?

Only within limits. The claim has to be made within 24 hours of booking, for the identical room, hotel, dates, conditions and currency, and the cheaper rate must still be available when it is checked. Bookings made less than 24 hours before arrival are excluded, as are membership, loyalty and reward rates and opaque deals that hide the hotel name until after purchase.

Who decides the star rating shown on a listing?

The property or a third-party feed, not an inspector. Britain's assessment scheme is run by the AA and VisitEngland, whose inspectors stay as mystery-shopper guests and award black stars from three to five, with silver stars for superior quality and red stars for the best at each level. A guest score of 9.2 or 7.4 beside a listing is an average of customer reviews and measures something different.

Our verdict

LateRooms is a resurrected brand on wholesale plumbing, and it is more open about both than it needs to be. The booking terms name Hotelbeds as the supplier, the help text gives honest three-, four- and five-star price bands, and the lead-in prices — £18 across the UK, £34 in London — are published rather than buried. Free membership at up to 15% off more than 100,000 hotels is worth the two minutes it takes, and the pay-at-the-hotel option suits anyone who wants to keep the money until they arrive. The weaknesses are all about what happens when a booking goes wrong: liability is limited to what you paid, there is no phone number, no complaints procedure and no dispute scheme, and the operating company publishes no accounts beyond a small-company balance sheet. Prepay on a credit card if the room costs more than £100, note that taxes and resort fees are still to come at the desk, and treat the Price Promise as a discipline for bookings made more than a day ahead rather than a guarantee on the last-minute room.

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