Cancellation exposure gauge
Paste the rate, the cancellation terms and your likely change window, and read what cancelling would actually cost.
1 · Paste the rates with their cancellation terms
FIRST-LOAD
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the cancellation gauge: your rate terms and dates stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Perspective: Before: the reader picked the cheapest rate. After: they can see a no-refund rate that would cost $412 if their dates move inside fourteen days.
2 · Read the cancellation gauge
Paid layer: the booking file
one-time step · the free reading above stays complete
Free tier
- one complete exposure reading
- cost of change at your window
- state link for a travel companion
What $6 one-time adds
- three bookings kept on this device
- printable terms comparison
- CSV of rate, terms, exposure and total
One cancelled non-refundable stay of $412 is 68× the price; the comparable it undercuts is a travel insurance policy that often excludes the same change.
Local history (this device)
- No saved runs yet — your first run files here.
Your purchase is handled through secure checkout. When you return, your extras are ready on this device — no account, no fuss, and your work stays private in this browser.
Boundary and sources
This cancellation gauge works only on the rate terms and travel dates you paste you paste. It does not give travel insurance advice, does not book or cancel a stay, and does not verify a hotel's policy. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with the hotel's reservations team in writing, before the free-cancellation window closes before you rely on it.
- Every figure comes from the rate terms and travel dates you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
- Method: exposure = cancellation charge at your window × your likelihood, compared with the saving on the cheaper rate
- Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.
Mechanism: loss-aversion-threat-salience