Google Hotels now lets you track prices, and I can’t wait to use it for my next trip

• Google’s latest feature drop might be a big win for summer travel
• As with flights, you can now track prices and set alerts for hotels
• Google Maps can also now pull potential places to visit from screenshots

If you’re a fan of Google Flights, especially for the price tracking data and how the current prices you’re seeing rank against other days, you’re in for a treat. As part of a drop of features fit for upcoming summer travel, Google aims to do for hotels what it’s done for flights.

And yes, it’s as good as it sounds. Now, when you search for hotels on Google, you’ll have the option to ask the search giant to track prices. Essentially, you turn on the feature and then get an alert if there is a price drop.

Similar to flights, you can be a bit descriptive, setting a price range or a ‘don’t bother me if it doesn’t fall’ here. It will even factor in a star rating if you have one selected and the general area where you were searching for a hotel.

Google is rolling out this new hotel price tracking feature globally on desktop and mobile. Once it’s available, you’ll find it right in search, complementing the historical knowledge of hotel pricing history.