Indeed, most of us when planning trips abroad, looking for opportunities to book hotels or hostels. In addition, most of us have found two options: (a) to book a hotel directly on the site of the hotel or (b) to book through a booking system that has a number of databases of some hotels. Someone may ask: “which option to choose?”. This article discusses the pros and cons of the global system for hotel bookings.
We will structure the analysis according to some criteria, such as opportunities, prices, support and level of reliability.
1. Advantages Booking
1. Great opportunities. If you do not find a particular hotel, but only for hotels in X, that online reservation systems will bring bingo. Most of them have a wide choice of hotels to hostels and ending with luxurious rooms. For each city can be found from 10 to 300 variants of the hotel. In addition, systems have been integrated into a search form where you can specify the necessary parameters, such as “Pets”, “near” and so on. Such as reservation systems. HotelDiscounts com. is pure 30000-50000 hotels in its database.
2. Lower prices. You’ll be surprised, but analysis showed that prices in the reservation systems are lower than in hotel sites (not to hold in all cases, though). For example, book a hotel room right on the Ghent River Hotel (www. Gent-rio-hotel. Ser / ENG / index. Html) is 30% higher compared to the same room in the reservation system “OrangeSmile Tours (reservas. orangesmile. COM / hotel / be / ghentriver. HTML). This stems from the fact that the backup systems have a higher turnover and may permit some discounts or special arrangements directly with the hotel.
3. Support for English on the Internet. Both systems offer hotel booking and the Internet and by phone 24 / 7 customer support.
Nevertheless, the response time of the e-mail reservation system is much faster in general because they have been allocated a support group, while the hotel management usually controls the e-mail once per hour. Secondly, English speaking clients, if problems arise, it is sometimes difficult to communicate by telephone with representatives of hotels in France, Spain, Italy or Greece. Supporting reservation systems always speaks good English.
4. High reliability. Reservation systems often develop their own software and hardware infrastructure of their own, so they have extensive experience in the field of security, reliability and maintenance. In front of hotels do not have much experience, and that the power to devise their own solutions, which sometimes have a reservation system, as a trade.
2. Limitations
1. Lack of hotel chains. Most major central reservation systems lack of hotel chains (Accor, Formula1, Marriott International, Hilton) in their databases. This is due to the fact that these channels tend to sell through its own facilities on the reservation number and refuse to cooperate with the global reservation systems.
2. fully booked situations. Sometimes you can ask to book a hotel directly on the situation when all the hotel reservation system is complete. Most of the hotels to keep the number of ambulances and can provide a space for you if you call the reception.
As is evident from this analysis, centralized reservation systems hotel has more advantages than disadvantages. Nevertheless, as in all aspects of life, it is best to save two backup options in mind and use them depending on their current situation.
