Google’s hotel price tracker just learned a useful new trick

With April now mostly behind us, summer feels closer than ever — and for a whole, whole lot of us, summertime means scratching that wanderlust itch and doing some traveling. Google already offers lots of tools and services that are perfectly suited towards helping out with travel — just last year we went hands-on to see how great Gemini could actually be as a travel guide — and now we’re leaning about Google’s latest upgrade, as Search gets better at finding you a killer hotel deal.

Google first introduced its hotel price-tracking tool a little over a year ago. Just like you might use Google Flights to track prices and try to spot a deal, Google let you set filters for the type of hotel you were interested in, and then could track prices across a city to find you the best ones.

But what if you’re a little more picky than that? What if you’ve got a specific hotel in mind that you’d absolutely love to stay in again, if only the price made sense. Well, that’s exactly what Google’s latest update is built for — it’s expanding hotel price tracking to let you just monitor individual hotels.

Whether you’re visiting google.com/hotels, just looking up a hotel in Search, or accessing the Prices tab on mobile, you’ll now be able to enter in the information about the dates you’d consider for travel and get an alert when prices come down for one specific hotel. Google’s making the tool available in both English and Spanish, and access should extend to users around the globe.

Sure, this isn’t a huge-huge addition to Google’s tools (and it does feel like a small oversight like it wasn’t there for the past year), but you know what? We’ll take it! Everybody tends to have a few favorite hotels, and a tool that helps us get a nice deal at place we know we’re going to love is a win all around.

Are there any other additions to Google’s hotel tracker that you might want to see added (maybe in time for next year’s summer vacation travels)? Tell us about them down in the comments.