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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
...hard for 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Laterooms-I recently booked with late rooms for a business trip to scotland. The hotel room offered was discounted for late availability from £135 per night to £59 per night. On arrival I found that my room was not fit for use and was very much in need of refurbishment.
On 20/10/08 I put a review on Laterooms website regarding the poor quality of the room and backed it up with some photos by email.
To date I have had no acknowledgment from Laterooms ...
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Advantages: Very easy to use Disadvantages: you cannot book on line
ON line
To access laterooms.com just type in this name. It is really easy to find. The site operastes in many other languages as well.
Firslty you enter the country you are looking to stay in. Then you can fine tune your entry. This really is child play. A great selection of hotel appear with the original price and then next to that the recommended late rooms price. You can look at the hotels by clicking on the links.
My Experience.
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