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What Hopper is

Hopper is a travel platform for finding and booking flights, hotels, rental cars, and homes. It uses historical travel-price data to predict when prices may be lowest and can notify customers who watch trips. Price Freeze lets customers pay to hold a flight or hotel price for a limited period before booking. Optional services include changing or canceling flights for any reason and assistance with disruptions. Cancel For Any Reason flight coverage specifies the refund percentage or airline credit and deadline at purchase; hotel coverage can allow cancellation until check-in for the base room rate and taxes, subject to service terms. Hopper also offers car-rental booking and rental-price predictions, and says it partners with travel suppliers worldwide. The app runs on iOS and Android. Hopper.com flight booking is available to select travelers in the United States, while hotels, rental cars, homes, and Hopper products are app-only. Hopper says human staff support bookings and describes the company as an accredited travel agency. It was founded in Montreal in 2007. The service is free, but Price Freeze requires payment.

Who it suits

Hopper suits travelers comparing and booking several travel types while monitoring price changes. It is especially relevant to users comfortable booking hotels, cars, homes, and Hopper products through the mobile app.

What it does well

  • Predicts possible low prices
  • Sends watched-trip notifications
  • Books flights, hotels, cars, and homes
  • Offers optional cancellation services
  • Human booking support available

What to know first

  • No price matching after purchase
  • Many bookings are app-only
  • Account creation requires SMS capability
  • Tablet account creation is unsupported

Verdict

Hopper combines booking, price predictions, trip watches, and optional flexibility services across travel categories. Check platform restrictions and cancellation terms before booking.

Facts from Hopper's own pages

Account requirement
Creating a Hopper account requires the ability to send and receive SMS texts; account creation on a tablet is unsupported. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Car rentals
Hopper offers car rental booking, and its price predictions cover rental car prices. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Company
Hopper says it was founded in Montreal in 2007. · media.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Flexible flight options
Hopper describes optional flight services including changing or canceling for any reason and flight disruption assistance. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Flight flexibility
Cancel For Any Reason can provide a percentage refund or airline credit, with the refund percentage and cancellation deadline specified at purchase. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Founded
A Hopper article states the company was founded in 2007. · media.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Headquarters
A Hopper article states that Hopper was founded and headquartered in Montreal. · media.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Hotel flexibility
Cancel For Any Reason for hotels allows cancellation up until check-in for a refund of the base room rate and taxes, subject to the service terms. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Mobile platforms
The Hopper app is available for iOS and Android in countries where the App Store or Google Play Store is available. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Notable limitation
Hopper says it cannot price match if a better deal is found elsewhere or a booking price drops after purchase. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Price data
Hopper says it collects more than one billion individual, real-time flight prices each day. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Price Freeze
Price Freeze lets customers pay to hold a flight or hotel price for a limited period before booking. · media.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Price predictions
Hopper analyzes historical pricing trends to predict flight, hotel, and car rental prices and notify users whether to buy now or wait. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Privacy
Hopper says it does not sell personal information and uses it to provide services such as bookings and deal notifications. · mobile-api.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Product
Hopper is a travel platform for finding and booking flights, hotels, rental cars, and homes. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Rewards
Hopper Pro awards a reward night for every five completed hotel nights, with voucher value equal to the average cost of those five nights and validity limited to select hotels. · hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Security
Hopper says it uses industry-standard procedures and accepted practices to protect information, while noting no internet transmission or electronic storage method is fully secure. · mobile-api.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Security and trust
Hopper says it takes appropriate measures to secure accounts and personal information and describes itself as an accredited travel agency. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Support
Hopper advertises 24/7 phone support and 24/7 in-app live chat for users whose app language is Spanish or a language other than English or French. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Travel booking
Hopper is a travel app for booking flights, hotels, car rentals, and homes. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Travel suppliers
Hopper says it partners with airlines, hotels, home providers, and car rental providers worldwide. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Trip watches
Customers can watch trips for price notifications. · media.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026
Web booking limits
Hopper.com booking is available to select travelers in the United States for flights; hotels, rental cars, homes, and Hopper products are app-only. · help.hopper.com, 11 Oct 2026

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