travelinn.co.uk

Advantages: Good search facility
Disadvantages: Online booking is not advanced enough

As a regular business traveller, I normally arrange my entire hotel and travel arrangements through a travel agent. Quite often, finding a good deal and arranging the details can be a relatively time-consuming process, and at a corporate level a travel agent will very often be able to secure better discounts than an individual. However, recently I have been required to arrange bookings for a large party of guests, and in order to keep costs down, ...
...20+ persons, I have tended to use the Travel Inn chain. The centralised booking service is facilitated via their web site www.travelinn.co.uk and here is an overview of what works, and what doesn’t. ABOUT THE SITE The Travel Inn web site is intended to act as a portal to all Travel Inn related services. From the company’s web site, you can:  Identify the availability of a Travel Inn in your destination area  Download ... Read review

Advantages: locations, price per room, know what to expect, helpful staff
Disadvantages: no breakfast,

As a frequent business traveller, I have to book accommodation for myself and I have found that this chain is one of the ones that I use most often. They are located in a lot of places and if you need to book one, if you can get on line it's easier. YOu just type in the location that you're interested in and the nearest inn is brought up on the screen. What you can do then is put the dates that you're interested in into the booking form, and oyu'll ...
...free rooms. This proved to be very helpful for me once when I checked up on line, and then phoned the inn. They said they hadn't got any rooms and I said that was funny becasue I'd just checked on line and there were. The lady at the other end tutted and checked up and said "oh yes, someone must have cancelled"..I don't think she'd checked but this made her do it an I got my room! The hotels are not flashy, nor are they olde worlde, but you know ... Read review