A dream vacation at a resort hotel in Bali is most certainly on many a bucket list. But how about living the dream for just AUS $0.08 a night?
This scenario played out for one lucky couple: grandparents Hilda and Ernie Ross from Malabar, Australia.
The couple were researching Bali hotels on WebJet for their granddaughter’s October wedding when they discovered this glitch in the travel matrix: a week in the luxury Jayakarta Bali Hotel offered at a whopping AUS $0.56.
Suites at the resort normally go for AUS $200-a-night.
“When the man told me I said ‘that’s impossible – they have made a mistake’,” Hilda Ross told Australia’s News.com.au.
“The man said he was almost 100% sure that he could get it honoured – he was laughing and he didn’t want to stop talking because he was so excited.”
“Then I asked if breakfast was included and he laughed that much, like I had said something funny,” she quipped.
“We wouldn’t have been able to make it – we would have been the only ones missing at the wedding but everything just seemed to fall into place. It’s a dream you would never even think about.”
It is unclear whether the pricing error was on WebJet’s end or if the hotel somehow triggered the anomaly.
WebJet has not responded to requests for comment.
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I would say that at the end of the day WebJet can use that as an excellent PR! They proved they are trustful!
Indeed it was good that they honored the price, and garnered some good will from both the customers and the community-at-large.
Great publicity stunt! Well done Webjet!