Advantages: Easy to use, can book a hotel within about 15 minutes, great choice of hotels. Disadvantages: The site isn't very attractively designed and rather overloaded with information.
Late Rooms, founded in 1999, is an online hotel booking facility which allows you to search for multiple hotel vacancies in one area at a single time. It covers every country in the developed world including the whole of the EU and all popular holiday resorts too. They pride themselves on offering greatly discounted rooms as no hotel wants to be left with empty rooms and so as time depletes hotels often discount their rooms drastically rather than ... ...hotel booking sites Late Rooms actually states that it does not charge a booking fee and so saves you paying the middle man.
The website's homepage offers you a simple drop down menu containing all the countries it covers to choose from. The EU countries are listed at the top with all over countries being below in alphabetical order. There's also an option further down on the page to take you direct to "Popular City Breaks" if you need a bit of ...
blonde_girl774 24.10.2005
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Advantages: Great deals, comprehensive information about the accomodation, maps, easy to use Disadvantages: Would like to sort results, would also like to see what price includes
Then this is the site for you! I am about to go on holiday and needed a hotel near Gatwick airport as it is quite a trek, and with an early flight it was easier to stay nearby. I searched the web for hotel deals using most of the hotel/holiday search websites listed on Ciao. I’m not really fussed where I stay, just as long as I could leave my car at the hotel for 2 weeks…..and this was my main problem! Parking charges at most hotels were ... ...Add this to the cost of the hotel and we’re talking about paying at least £100 for one nights accommodation with 2 weeks parking (this was at a B&B or 3 star hotel). Then, I came across this gem of a website!
The Purpose
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The site provides a last minute bulletin board for hotels wishing to literally ‘flog’ their rooms at cut prices – a kind of pull em’ high sell em’ cheap service for hotels!! ...
moose 01.07.2001
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Advantages: Offer some outstanding rates, efficient booking by phone, get to stay in some cracking hotels at vastly reduced rates Disadvantages: Difficulties in confirming e-mail bookings, search facility only looks for single rooms making multiple bookings difficult, not always the cheapest
...where to from here? Laterooms.com of course.
THE SITE
The first thing you see when you visit the site is a welcome in 5 languages;
• English
• French
• Spanish
• Italian
• German
You can search for accommodation in 100 countries; this includes each of the British Isles constituents as an individual country, still nevertheless comprehensive.
Once you have selected your country choice, you simply press Go (or of course aller, ir, vai or start ... ...breakfast, it was back to laterooms.com to ensure availability. The booking will depend on the accommodation and can vary between:
• Contacting laterooms.com by phone - 08707 507 107. You will be expected to quote a specific accommodation reference number. • By e-mail, you send the e-mail using the dedicated form, and, supposedly the hotel will contact you to discuss your requirements.
• On-Line - Laterooms are quick to point out that on-line is ...
sue.51 26.02.2003 (14.05.2004)
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Advantages: simple process a wealth of information Disadvantages: overly busy design
While looking to see if I could find a better deal for a hotel which may be more reliable with my booking than the Paragon was on my last visit to Birmingham, I decided to check out some of the hotel booking sites offered on the various cashback websites I use. One which appears on all of them was laterooms.com. So navigating to the site via the cashbacksite I am greeted by a fairly busy but easily negotiated home page. The bit which most interested ... ...a box for typing your destination, either postcode, town name or local attraction. Below this you can enter your arrival date, the number of nights you want a room and then the number of people you want to sleep in the room.
So for my purposes, it was Birmingham, later this month and 2 people. The next page shows you a simple map of the area in the centre of the screen with 'Quick Search' options down the side. Given the desire to not spend too ...
scuba_angel 11.07.2008
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Advantages: Some very great deals indeed; we have used them. Disadvantages: Not altogether embracing the power of the web. So near - yet so far.
Excuse me a minute. Let me put my hat on. There! That's better. Why, you might well ask, am I putting on a hat to write this review? Is it sexy? No - not really. Is it a back-to-front baseball cap? Please! No! I'm 37! Am I going bald and need to keep my head warm? No - you're wrong there - just greying a bit - well, a lot. NO - you're all totally wrong. I've put my hat on so that I can doff it (I rather like that expression) to the rather entrepreneurial ... ...it very, very right.
With the advent of the internet, we have all become very much more penny-pinching than ever before; it's our prerogative. We tend to eschew high street travel agents, probably quite rightly, and seek out our own bargain deals without wishing to line the pockets of the middle-man. We revel in minor triumphs, whereby we save money (often, heaps of it) by getting a decent deal off our own backs. www.laterooms.com really helps you ...
andymcf 22.11.2002 (23.11.2002)
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Advantages: Good layout, easy navigation, huge database Disadvantages: Web site content is managed by the hotels, discounts may not be available
...their money.
WHAT IS LATEROOMS.COM ALL ABOUT?
“The hotel industry late availability database”.
Sounds good doesn’t it? This immediately conjures up images of a system similar to that adopted by high street travel agents, where hotel rooms will be slashed in price to make a quick sale. With the events of September 11th, the travel industry as a whole is going through a slump, so the deals available for customers should be better ... ...telephone. You’ll need to quote laterooms.com to get the rate advertised.
Other hotels will direct you to an online booking link. In these instances, the online booking is generally facilitated via the hotel’s own web site. The drawback here is that the rate you secure will often not match that advertised on laterooms.com.
I don’t mind booking over the phone, because in that instance laterooms.com has simply acted as ...
LostWitness 01.06.2002 (06.11.2002)
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Advantages: great deals Disadvantages: have to wait till the last minute, not always current information
I have just booked a four-star hotel at a bargain rate through LateRooms. This was my experience:
SITE
The site is fairly straightforward and easy to use. There is a choice of languages on the homepage with links which take you straight to the LateRooms site of your choice in your own language. This would be a pretty useful feature for non-English speakers, who are generally catered pretty poorly for on the internet. Clicking on the UK/Eire link ... ...with a form to enter the town or select the region I wanted from the dropdown, and the dates and duration of my stay. Having filled this in and clicked the search button, I was very quickly brought to a results page. The whole site seems quite speedy -- there are no fancy Flash videos or complicated graphics to slow things down.
LateRooms only deal with dates up to two weeks in the future. Last-minute bargains only!
ROOMS
My search, for two days ...
lareine 21.06.2001
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Advantages: Some great hotel stay bargains Disadvantages: You may not get the hotel you paid for
I've used laterooms on about ten occasions in the last year or so to book last minute hotels for business and leisure stays. The site is fairly easy to use once you've found your way around. The UK is divided into regions and I've noticed some of the hotels falling in what I would consider to be the wrong region - I think this is because of the confusion of what exactly the "South East" is, or isn't. I think it would be better if they rearranged ... ...is that you can search by typing in the town/city name. This gives results for accomodation in the town/city and also other nearby places.
If you are looking in London you will get a long list of results (several pages worth) so its best to narrow the search to a particular part of London and there is a drop down menu list of London areas.
As well as covering the UK< laterooms also offers accomodation discounts abroad in a number of countries. ...
KatherineA 08.07.2004
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Advantages: easy to compare hotels/rates/ratings,offers bookings online or by phone Disadvantages: none found yet
I've used Laterooms.com a number of times to book hotels in the UK. I like the way the site displays 50 hotels at a time with room rates, star ratings and customer ratings as this makes it easy to narrow my search down and have a degree of confidence that low price doesn't mean low quality service.
I think the laterooms website must've been redesigned since the other reviews i've read here were originally written since it is now possible to book ... ...sending an email as mentioned in some other reviews. This is a significant improvement in my opinion since it means i can get immediate confirmation of my bookings which is especially important when i'm looking for last minute bargains.
The site uses Google maps to show the locations of the hotels which i'm a fan of since they can be dragged with a mouse to see the surrounding areas which is better than the multimap approach of having to click an ...
TrebleTop 11.06.2007
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Advantages: Comprehensive database of hotels Disadvantages: You have to call the hotels yourself
Laterooms.com is an online hotel search service with a large database of hotels across the U.K, Europe and USA.
If you can access the site before going to the hotel you can save yourself a lot of money!
Unfortunatly with Laterooms.com you are unable to book online. The service acts more as a bulletin board, where hotels can display there 'special' late rates, leaving you, the customer, to call the hotel direct to book the room.
To get the discounted ... ...quick too.
There are links to the hotels from the website so you can check out the rooms and find out about the facilities. Laterooms.com even provides a link so you can find directions to the hotel, and what the weather will be like when you get there! ...
MattSlat 15.05.2001
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Advantages: price, choice, locations, great for last minute booking Disadvantages: can only book approximately 3 weeks in advance and sometimes you have to phone the hotel to get the lower rate
Now that my children are getting that much older, its great to be able to take a little break on the spur of the moment. This site is easy to access and doesn't just cover this country- it has expanded to include rooms in countries abroad-near and far..and to include villas, apartments and cruises- you name the type of late booking you want to make and it will be there. I've managed to get some great deals on hotel rooms, even mid week, and even ... ...whack-and I'm all for that.
SO HOW DO YOU USE IT?
Get into the site by entering LATEROOMS.com. amd the first screen you'll see is one where there's a choice- English, French, Spanish, Italian and German- asking you what destination you have in mind. Presuming you're English, click on the destination and wait. The next screen will be one where you can enter a town or click on a region in the UK, say when you want to go, for how long and for how ...
ginger59 04.04.2003 (26.06.2003)
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Advantages: you can see what hotels are around the vacinity! Disadvantages: you dont get what you've asked for!
Well.........After spending a week on deciding to take a trip down to birmingham with some family members who havent been, I decided to check laterooms.co.uk to see if I could get a cheap hotel deal..... I saw that the britannia hotel had a good rate on so decided to take up on that offer. I have stayed in the britannia in manchester and thought it was ok so based on that i decided to book. I booked this hotel room on the 3rd and reserved a double ... ...time. Normally when you book a hotel, they dont take payment until you get there and then check out after your stay but to my shock i checked my statement 2 days later and saw that the money had come out. I thought to myself oh well at least its paid for and i know what im getting. On the evening of the 15/10/09 i got to Birmingham, i found it quite difficult to find and the fact that you can only park in the pallasades car park and drag your luggage ...
Not_your_average_type 19.10.2009
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A very professional service for hotel booking.
I have recently been to London on business and i used this website to book my hotel.
The website gave me loads of information on the hotel, transport, braskfast etc.. and even rated the hotel for me.
I found the website to be secure with my credit details and put me in touch with a very good hotel.
The website generated the prices for me and reserved a room to my specification.
I would like to thank ... ...it.
It is secure, free to browse and maintains high professionalism when dealing with customers.
One criticism is that is is quite unclear regarding payment.
It uses your credit details to RESERVE not BOOK the room so you have to pay the hotel when you get there.
Just a warning to potential users that this is what happens but other than this i highly reccomend thier services... ...
super_star_123 01.03.2005
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Advantages: Cheap hotels! Disadvantages: Website can sometimes be slow and time out
Laterooms is a fantastic website where you can find cheap hotels. I stumbled across it when looking for somewhere to stay for a night in Brighton. I use it all the time. You can book about 3 months in advance but you can also book on the day.
Basically hotels will let laterooms know how many rooms they have left and what price they can sell it at. You can search by area or by town. You put the date you want, how many people it is for, how many nights ... ...offers or by 4 and 5 star hotels. The money you can save is fantastic. You can save up to 70 % sometimes. We have stayed in 4 star hotels for 60 pounds. If you fancy going away for a weekend last minute it is great as it can show you all the hotels which are available in that area and what the cost is. Sometimes you can get some absolute bargains especially if you are not sure where you want to go. Sometimes if we fancy going away for a weekend or ...
Panda1976 16.10.2006
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Advantages: Ease of use - Quick to book - Took no more than 5 minutes to find a hotel in London Disadvantages: The site could do with a make over
==VERY QUICK TO BOOK==
This site is incredible for booking hotels quickly and cheaply. Example:
This morning I booked a hotel near Shepherds Bush in London for 5 people at the end of October. After carrying out the search, LateRooms displayed a massive list of hotels, 721 to be exact, which would normally throw me, BUT, using this site you are able to sort by:
*Miles (Distance away from your searched area)
*Location
*Guest rating
*Star rating
... ...by Miles and Bob's your uncle, I found my match right at the top. I have managed to find a room for one night for 5 people for £89, breakfast included - Euro Hotel
The site also gives you the oppurtunity to find out more about the hotel, showing its amenities, photos of the hotel and a choice of different rooms to choose from.
Once you have selected your room, it will ask for bank card details, which personally I don't see the need as you pay on ...
bruceg88 21.09.2009
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