What you are saying (and in some of your responses to comments) is that
you are
buying advertising and marketing to publicize the hotel and, hopefully,
get more
bookings. You are not buying just online reservation. You need to price
what
it would take to just use a reservation package on your own site and
subtract
that from your "contract" price. Then you can determine if the
advertising you
are putting out (the amount left after subtracting) is what you want to
spend
and will it get you the return you want (amount of additional bookings you
want
to have).

I looked into "stand-alone" software packages that would allow me to do
real-time on-line booking from my own website -- and the price was WAY
higher than contracting with the big players in the market. And I'm not
talking a little higher -- I'm talking like 500 to 1000% higher.

And I'd STILL not be in the global distribution system (which gets you into
all of the travel agent's computers) or on Expedia and Travelocity.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"