Hopper: Hotels, Flights & Cars


Rating: 4.6	Downloads: 10,000,000+
Category: Travel & Local	Offer by: Hopper Inc.

Hopper: Hotels, Flights & Cars is a popular mobile application designed to help users find and book discounted travel accommodations, flights, and rental cars. It leverages advanced technology to analyze prices and market trends, delivering users the best available options directly to their smartphones.

Primarily designed for savvy travelers, whether they are planning frequent trips, luxury vacations, or simply looking for weekend escapes, Hopper simplifies the booking process. Its powerful discovery tools and alert features save time and money, making it an appealing choice for anyone seeking efficient and economical travel solutions.

App Features

Intelligent Trip Planner: Easily plan entire journeys including flights, hotels, and activities using a simple point-and-click interface. It automatically aggregates pricing from various OTAs and transportation companies to present you with the best deal for your complete itinerary, making multi-stop travel significantly easier to manage.
Real-time Price Drop & Deal Alerts: The app constantly monitors airline and hotel websites, instantly notifying you of price changes and significant discounts through customizable alerts. This proactive approach saves users hundreds of dollars by locking in fares before they inevitably rise, a core feature.
Destination Discovery: When you simply enter a city or landmark, Hopper goes beyond surface results, offering inspiration with recommendations for things to do, restaurants, user reviews, and unique experiences, helping you plan a complete trip, not just book transport.
Sleek Travel Board: Your top deals and frequently used flight or hotel searches are neatly organized on a easily accessible activity board, allowing for quick rebooking or price rechecking without navigating away from your current plans.
Offline Access: Download destination guides and store reference information like airport codes or hotel details, ensuring you have vital travel data readily available even without cell service connectivity, a great advantage during long journeys.
Multi-destination Flights: Handle complex routing needs, planning direct multi-stop flights to multiple key locations within your intended itinerary, providing a consolidated view of the best booking options that combine several segments efficiently.

Pros & Cons

Pros:

Potentially aggressive discount finding
Helpful ‘Inspiration’ trip planning tool
Visually appealing flight search (Hopper Board)
Proven track record of finding competitive prices

Cons:

Predicts international usage but interface might feel basic
Booking process can sometimes be less intuitive
Secondary search data layers might feel dense
Cheap flight or hotel deals occasionally feature unsatisfactory accommodations

Similar Apps

App Name	Highlights
Google Flights	Offers comprehensive flight information, fare comparisons across multiple OTAs, and powerful tools for analyzing flight prices over time, including scheduled price drop notifications.
Kayak	A multi-search platform known for aggregating travel deals for flights, hotels, and car rentals, and providing insightful price trends and comparison visuals to help users make informed decisions.
Booking.com	Facilitates direct bookings for a vast selection of global hotels, providing user reviews, photos, and flexible cancellation policy options, often integrating car hire and activity search tools as well.
Skyscanner	Specializes in travel searches, offering one-way flight discovery, airport tracker tools, and detailed hotel search results including ratings, user contributions, and flexible payment plans.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Can I use Hopper to plan and book a trip to any international destination?
A: Yes, Hopper’s extensive search capabilities cover numerous countries worldwide, offering flights, hotels, and occasional local experiences like tours or attractions in places like Greece. However, frequent international round-the-world fare finding requires a subscription plan.

Q: How often should I check Hopper for flight price drops?
A: While automatic monitoring can help, actively checking the ‘Price Drop Finder’ feature strategically, for instance after major news affecting airlines or global events impacting destination demand, can sometimes yield discounts last discovered dropped fares.

Q: Does the app provide any visual guides for unfamiliar cities, like maps?
A: Yes, when detailed hotel or attraction information is available, pins indicating these locations appear on integrated maps, often linked to reviews and user comments, proving quite helpful for navigation within new travel destinations.

Q: Are flight deals on Hopper truly as good as they appear?
A: They represent real-time found prices, but you must still confirm the deal via the main booking provider’s site, as Hopper aggregates offers but doesn’t disburse funds directly – this process aims to ensure reported prices remain genuine.

Q: Can I save Hopper searches directly to my phone’s home screen for easier access?
A: Absolutely, you can add specific searches, such as flight tickets or hotel deals, directly to your device’s home screen or app drawer, effectively transforming them into shortcut buttons linked straight to that Hopper search result page.