Google Hotel Finder

Posted on July 19th, 2012. Written by bookingbusinesstravel.

As you would expect from Google, their HotelFinder site is slick!

They provide a date-driven availability and price display on the left hand side and a very good Google Maps on the right hand side.

So, full marks for presentation.

But the site is still in experimental stage and we have two issues with the site

1. The availability is received only from the hotel itself. This means that hotel brokers who may have availability in the form of allocations, will not be featured. So the hotel will have a ‘likely sold out’ sign against it. When booking business travel, availability can often be an issue as a specific hotel will be requested. Therefore, it is better to use our hotel comparison site which searches hundreds of suppliers with one click.
2. Prices are those provided by the hotel to Google and are usually exorbitant. We priced several hotels and soon realised that our recommended search engine consistently undercut the Google Hotel Finder rates.

Try our Hotel Search option above and compare the results with Google’s (below) to see for yourself!

http://www.google.com/hotelfinder/

 

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