Hotel Reservation Web Sites
There are lots of web sites through which you can book your hotel reservations. For years, here at TheInsiderTravelGuides.com, we've partnered with one site or another as a service to our readers. Our goal has always been to provide one-stop-shopping for our readers: not only can you read about what to see and what to do on our site, but you can plan where to stay, too. For the most part, offering this service has worked out quite well.
Our first relationship was with TravelNow.com, run by a travel agency in the early days of the Internet. They were soon bought out by Hotels.com (and are currently part of its Interactive Affiliate Network), which was in turn, acquired by Expedia.com. We've maintained ongoing relationships with both TravelNow and its parent company and have generally been pleased with them. (In the interests of full disclosure, we should also mention that we've also had affiliate relationships with a number of travel sites, including CheapTickets.com and Hotwire.) Now, we've been asked to review another site: HotelReservations.com (please note that we are being paid for this review).
The first thing we noticed was the uncanny resemblance of HotelReservations.com's online interface, compared with the one we are familiar with at Hotels.com. We were further confused by the similarity in their "About Us" pages. At Hotels.com, it reads:
Welcome to hotels.com!
For more than 15 years hotels.com has been providing travelers great prices on the places you want to stay for both leisure and business travel. We make planning and booking your trip easy through the hotels.com expert lodging website and through our certified hotel experts available 24/7 at 1-800-2-hotels (1-800-246-8357).
At hotels.com we know the hotel experience is an important part of your trip. And that's why we want you to know before you go with our easy to use booking tools like side by side comparisons, virtual tours and our un-biased customer reviews from people just like you who have stayed at the property.
hotels.com offers more than 70,000 properties worldwide - from hotels to B&B's to condos to all inclusive resorts. hotels.com offers the information travelers need to book the perfect trip all backed by the hotels.com Price Guarantee, see details on website. hotels.com is an operating company of Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE). hotels.com WE KNOW HOTELS INSIDE AND OUT.®
At HotelReservations.com, it reads:
Welcome to HotelReservations.com!
For more than 06 years HotelReservations.com has been providing travelers great prices on the places you want to stay for both leisure and business travel. We make planning and booking your trip easy through the HotelReservations.com expert lodging website and through our certified hotel experts available 24/7 at 1-800-447-4136.
At HotelReservations.com we know the hotel experience is an important part of your trip. And that's why we want you to know before you go with our easy to use booking tools.
HotelReservations.com offers more than 70,000 properties worldwide - from hotels to B&B's to condos to all inclusive resorts. HotelReservations.com offers the information travelers need to book the perfect trip all backed by the HotelReservations.com Price Guarantee, see details on website.
Are the two companies related? So far our digging hasn't uncovered any kind of relationship, but if one doesn't own or partner with the other, we would be surprised if "cease and desist" letters don't start passing between them soon!
Our first relationship was with TravelNow.com, run by a travel agency in the early days of the Internet. They were soon bought out by Hotels.com (and are currently part of its Interactive Affiliate Network), which was in turn, acquired by Expedia.com. We've maintained ongoing relationships with both TravelNow and its parent company and have generally been pleased with them. (In the interests of full disclosure, we should also mention that we've also had affiliate relationships with a number of travel sites, including CheapTickets.com and Hotwire.) Now, we've been asked to review another site: HotelReservations.com (please note that we are being paid for this review).
The first thing we noticed was the uncanny resemblance of HotelReservations.com's online interface, compared with the one we are familiar with at Hotels.com. We were further confused by the similarity in their "About Us" pages. At Hotels.com, it reads:
Welcome to hotels.com!
For more than 15 years hotels.com has been providing travelers great prices on the places you want to stay for both leisure and business travel. We make planning and booking your trip easy through the hotels.com expert lodging website and through our certified hotel experts available 24/7 at 1-800-2-hotels (1-800-246-8357).
At hotels.com we know the hotel experience is an important part of your trip. And that's why we want you to know before you go with our easy to use booking tools like side by side comparisons, virtual tours and our un-biased customer reviews from people just like you who have stayed at the property.
hotels.com offers more than 70,000 properties worldwide - from hotels to B&B's to condos to all inclusive resorts. hotels.com offers the information travelers need to book the perfect trip all backed by the hotels.com Price Guarantee, see details on website. hotels.com is an operating company of Expedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE). hotels.com WE KNOW HOTELS INSIDE AND OUT.®
At HotelReservations.com, it reads:
Welcome to HotelReservations.com!
For more than 06 years HotelReservations.com has been providing travelers great prices on the places you want to stay for both leisure and business travel. We make planning and booking your trip easy through the HotelReservations.com expert lodging website and through our certified hotel experts available 24/7 at 1-800-447-4136.
At HotelReservations.com we know the hotel experience is an important part of your trip. And that's why we want you to know before you go with our easy to use booking tools.
HotelReservations.com offers more than 70,000 properties worldwide - from hotels to B&B's to condos to all inclusive resorts. HotelReservations.com offers the information travelers need to book the perfect trip all backed by the HotelReservations.com Price Guarantee, see details on website.
Are the two companies related? So far our digging hasn't uncovered any kind of relationship, but if one doesn't own or partner with the other, we would be surprised if "cease and desist" letters don't start passing between them soon!
posted by Insider Travel Guides at 10:28 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for writing about our site HotelReservations.com, when you and your friends travel next time, please consider us to book your hotel needs.
....from management of HotelReservations.com
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