Google seems to be testing showing a date picker and occupancy selector for searches related to hotel queries. I have not been able to replicate this, I have tried over the past few weeks without luck.

But Saad AK spotted this and posted about it on Twitter – here is a screenshot from his videocast:

Here are his videocasts:

I asked some hotel SEOs if this was new, and they said yes:

I guess this makes sense, if you are looking for a hotel, you probably want it for a specific date range.

Forum discussion at Twitter.