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When looking for accommodation deals on Booking.com¹, you may or may not notice that there are some mobile-only rates:

Over half of all bookings made on our site come through a mobile device. By activating mobile rates at your property, you can tap into this valuable and expanding traveller segment.

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All you have to do to capitalise on mobile rate benefits is to offer an exclusive discount of 10% or higher for those booking via mobile. Once you’ve done this, a special badge will appear next to your property in the search results and on your property page. This helps increase your visibility, and can improve your conversion rate for mobile bookers.

It can be quite inconvenient to grab your phone (or tablet) just for the sake of doing a couple of inquiries, especially when planning a multi-city trip.

It turns out there’s no need to do so. The following trick works, astonishingly:

• use your computer web browser as usual to initiate a search
• open the browser devtools pane; all major browsers have one these days
• toggle mobile mode in it

Example in Google Chrome / Chromium on macOS: press Cmd + Option + J followed by Cmd + Shift + M.

You should then be able to tap into mobile-only deals from your computer. Enjoy!