Booking accomodation for a reasonable price

Advantages: easy to navigate and to book, don't charge anything, good prices
Disadvantages: none

...I used www.booking.com about 10 times in the last 5 years. We were in Prague, London, Strasbourg, Paris, Bourges, Nice, Orleans, Lido di Jesolo (some places for multiple plies). We booked our accommodation for our honeymoon as well via booking.com. The site When you click on http://www.booking.com you can see an orange rectangular panel. You have to fill the destination and the checking in and checking out dates. Press the Search button. Then if you wrote a large city like Paris there are some choices you can select from. There are the airports, so if you want a hotel near the CDG you have to click on the link they provided. After you decided which location is appropriate to you there will be a list of hotels. You can sort the hotels by stars, popularity, price for single room, price for double room and best rated by... ...all...

D_i_a_n_e 03.09.2009 · Read review
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EASY BOOKING.COM

Advantages: No charge until you have stayed.
Disadvantages: None

...I have used BOOKING.COM where we have made the booking and stayed at the Hotel and also where we have needed to cancel. BOOKING.COM is another site that often appears to be the cheapest when we trawl HOTELSCOMPARISON.COM. We booked for Vila Gale in Tavira Portugal for our January trip. Booking process was very easy, we had two double Rooms with Buffet Breakfast and Pool View (Pool View was 1 Euro per night per room, Saga were Charging 2 Euros per person per night) (Total cost per room for the 3 nights was £87, thats B&B at less than £15 per person) You get Email Confirmation and you print your Voucher Off to present to Hotel. Booking.com is one of those Agencies that do not take any money off you at the booking, you pay the Hotel Direct. You do register your Credit Card number with them, so in the event of no show...

poshtroika 24.02.2008 · Read review
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Booking.com

Advantages: Quick and easy booking hotel
Disadvantages: Not many hotels offer for Asia region

...I booked a hotel in the Netherlands through Booking.com. I got very special rate from them. The normal price of the hotel was 125 euro, but booking.com offered 50 euro rate. I think I was a big deal for me. And at that time, I could not make print out of my booking because it was an urgent situation. But I did not have a problem at all with it. Just need to confirm my name with hotel's reception, then I got my room's key within 10 -15 minutes, of course I need to fill up some details again for the hotel's form. Pity that we could not find lots of hotels in Asia. Most of hotels that they offer are located in Europe. Maybe in the future we can find more hotels for Asia....

putjek 05.10.2008 · Read review
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Booking.com helps hotels cheat customers.

Advantages: extensive database of hotels, many quite inexpensive
Disadvantages: if a hotel cheats you, they will apologize, but do nothing.

...Booking.com: Colluding with Corrupt Hotel Owners to Cheat Customers? I am sorry to have to write this review, but I have tried for months to get Booking.com to address my complaint. I have reserved rooms using this service in the past, and have been very pleased. This, however, came to an end this summer. I booked a room at the Travel Inn in Reykjavik, only to find, upon arrival, that my wife, son, and myself were escorted to a car with no explanation. Eventually the clerk told us that we would be driven to the "other" location. The Travel Inn has, it seems, bought space in the Pavi Guesthouse (over a mile away). I would have refused on principle, but I know the situation in Reykjavik is such that I might have had no options. We were driven there, the driver stopped along the way to encourage me to withdraw money from...

seth66 23.08.2007 · Read review
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If you have problems, don't expect help from Booking.com

Advantages: Website is easy to navigate and book your hotel
Disadvantages: Booking.com does not stand behind their own policies and their customer service is not helpful.

...I booked a hotel room at the Hotel Diplomatic in Rome Italy through Booking.com. We tried for days to change our reservation but no one from the hotel would return our calls. We finally changed the reservation through the Booking.com website well before the cut-off date and yet we were charged for the first night of our cancellation by the hotel. Booking.com list that you may make changes to your reservation up to 24 hours before your reservation without penalty, however, upon arriving at the Hotel Diplomatic we were told that their policy is 48 hours. After repeated calls to Booking.com the charges have not been credited to my account. Booking.com does not stand behind their own policy. After further researching, I have found this to be a common problem with Booking.com and that their customer service never follows up on problems...

Scott1250 17.06.2009 · Read review
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Booking.com-Promises made, no deliery, then poor customer service

Advantages: reasonable rates
Disadvantages: Do not book your chosen hotel, refuse to address any problems, poor service

...My experience of booking.com was good up to the point of checking in the hotel booked. Despite my proof of reservation at booking.com there had been no reservation made at the hotel at all. The Hotel had rooms but at £40 extra per night than previously booked. The customer service at Booking.com was next to useless, asking them to re-confirm the booking over the phone, they absolutely refused saying they had already done it and the hotel must have made an error. -so why would they not just reconfirm? The excuse at booking.com was that they were not allowed to make any changes, repeating this everytime like a stuck record- yet I was not asking for a change. After 15minutes aguing the valid point with Booking.com customer service and getting nowhere, I have come to the conclusion Booking.com are useless, and will no longer use them...

craigadj 27.05.2009 · Read review
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Make Booking.com your first stop!

Advantages: Excellent customer service, great choice of hotels and excellent rates
Disadvantages: None that I've come across!

...I booked a hotel in Spain through Booking.com, which was a surprise for my partner. The initial booking process was extremely easy. Their website allows you to select the location and dates of your stay, but also provides the option to display only hotels that have rooms available. After selecting the hotel, you are given a host of information about the hotel, including their cancellation policies. The policies are those of the hotel, and not Booking.com. Therefore it is very important to check these prior to booking. However, there is no small print regarding these, all of the information is in plain sight and easy to view before confirming the booking. Upon completing the booking process, I was issued with a confirmation number and almost instantly received an email confirming my booking, along with the contact details...

s32bauer 19.08.2008 · Read review
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Booking made easy

Advantages: It's all so straightforward.
Disadvantages: Too much emphasis on Easyjet.

...featured in the list from British Airways. I duly visited Expedia and chose to enter the U.K. site. Once there, it was easy to select the option of booking a hotel with a flight. I then entered London as the place of departure and Zurich as the destination, followed by my dates of travel. Within less than a minute I was shown a list of hotels with prices that included a return flight plus taxes. Once I had found the hotel that my son suggested, I was able to click on a link to see more details. It definitely seemed a good choice. Returning to the list of options, I noticed that all the flights I had been offered were by Easyjet leaving from Luton, but there was a link to click in order to choose a different flight. Having clicked through, I was shown several different airlines with starting prices as well as details of which were direct flights...

denella 16.06.2009 · Read review
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Book a dutch treat.

Advantages: No advance payment
Disadvantages: None apparant

...The Canaries. Once you have selected your hotel of your choice it will give you availability and price. There are lots of special offers as well, especially in the winter season, so take a look and you may find something to suite you. You are only able to book up to 12 monthes in advance but this seems standard with all travel sites. All prices are in euros and are for each room. Your choice is single occupancy or double. There is no extra charge for single traveller. There is a good currency converter in different currencies including pounds sterling. The price displayed is for the duration of your stay. You can book a day or a few days starting on any day of the week. However you will have to find a flight to match . So check out the cheap flight sites before making your booking. *** HOTELS *** The quality of hotels varies according...

nigelblue 04.06.2005 · Read review
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Read the small print, and don't complain unless...

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: No mention was made in the hotel description that it was also a night club = NO SLEEP

...Initially my complaint was only a small one about the fact that booking.com took the payment for my hotel booking prior to my arrival at the hotel, when normally I have been used to paying on check out. I was aware that it was a non-refundable price, but had not read that they would take payment immediately, and felt that this information should have been much more clearly stated. Their response was to initially blame the hotel, then to misunderstand my complaint by saying that it was mentioned that the booking was non refundable, and then to just say that early payment was mentioned so they were covered as far as their lawyers were concerned. This was over several e-mails and all felt very petty, when they just couldn't accept the criticism that early payment should be CLEARLY notified. A perfect demonstration of the difference...

Telic 23.09.2009 · Read review
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