Every day of the week, the routine of Travel-Dealz editors begins with combing through countless offers and suggesting them to our colleagues. After evaluating them, only the best deals make it on our homepage and into our newsletter. In this post, we want to shine a light on offers that were discussed, but ultimately disregarded. But just because we didn’t feel they would be interesting for a broader audience, it doesn’t mean that some people won’t cherish them.
In this section, you can’t expect our usual service – we will give one example for each deal. We can only give hints about details like availability, travel period, other origins/destinations or fare rules.
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Turkish Airlines Business Class to Los Angeles for €1,800
Turkish Airlines sells discounted business class rides from Oslo to Los Angeles, with roundtrips available for slightly less than €1,800. To get the price, you need to spend a night in Istanbul on the outbound leg.
Reason it wasn’t on the site: This was a close call, but ultimately, the overnight layover killed it. Apart from that, you get two very long business class flights for less than €2,000 – and even the short-haul flights are in comfy recliner seats instead of eco-seating with a blocked middle seat.
Stay-3-Pay-2 at The Raffles Singapore (w/Breakfast & More)
For stays in December 2025, ASMALLWORLD offers an attractive rate for The Raffles Singapore. You can stay three nights for the price of two and enjoy breakfast, butler service and a $100 food and beverage credit – on top of staying at one of the legendary hotels of the world.
Reason it wasn’t on the site: The price of €791/night is a hefty amount of money, increasing to €2,374, because you have to stay at least three nights to score that rate. Combined with only short term availability, we were still thrilled by the name Raffles, but ultimately not convinced by the quality of the deal.
Black Week Hotels Offers
While we featured three of the sales in last week’s iteration of this deal, we decided to leave them in here for better comparison.
IHG’s Inadequate Black Week Sale
IHG promises a 25% discount for stays until March 31, 2026. The sale was exclusive to their Android app until Thursday, then became accessible via their website, too. The discounted rates are prepaid and non-refundable.
Reason it wasn’t on the site: Our tests showed that the discount maxes out at roughly 10%. And while prepaid rates and a short travel period usually go well together, most of IHG’s recent sales included a solid discount on flexible rates that actually remained flexible. This is far worse by comparison.
Hilton’s Half-Baked Black Week Sale
Hilton promises up to 20% discount on stays in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. The sales period stretches into January and the travel period end on April 12, 2026. The discounted rates are prepaid, non-refundable and only available on weekends.
Reason it wasn’t on the site: This is similar to IHG’s offer, only slightly worse. With Asia and the Americas, two important markets are missing – and four of seven week days are excluded from the offer, as well. Our tests showed that you cannot expect more than a 10% discount to comparable rates, too.
Radisson’s Ragged Black Week Sale
Radisson’s offer seems to be a bit more generous than the others: Their special rate always includes breakfast, dishes out 3,000 bonus points per stay for members and covers the entirety of 2026. Sadly, these rates are non-refundable, as well.
Reason it wasn’t on the site: This explanation is a staple of this column, but we’re not getting tired of repeating it: Year-long travel periods are pretty much useless if the rate is prepaid. Paying several hundred Euros a year ahead is very risky, even if you know where you will spend October 2026. The advertised 35% is ridiculous as well: As it was the case for most Radisson sales in the last three years – you basically trade flexibility for free breakfast while the overall price stays the same.
Scandic’s Subpar Black Week Sale
Scandic Hotels offers a non-refundable promotional rate for stays until June 2026. The company offers a price comparison on its own website and the rates are actually lower than any offer of the past 30 days.
Reason it wasn’t on the site: Once again, the rate is non-refundable, so the long travel period somewhat doesn’t count. While prices are lower than usual, we still had a hard time finding any offer that represented decent value-for-money. If you are looking for hotels in Scandinavia, Strawberry Hotel’s sale is the much better option.
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Comments (4)
Many thanks for the clarifications provided. Well appreciated!
Thanks for communicating this background info. Very interesting!
It’s something wrong with the Duolingo deal link
Hi Jakob, I’ve fixed the link. Thanks for noticing.