Reader question: Why does Booking offer hotels that are closed?
I book Citrus Sukhumvit 13 hotel for September 19th and 20th. Also had something from a translation agency that had to be delivered. Now he called me on the 19th at around 8 am saying that this hotel has been closed for months. So I quickly called another hotel without booking.com. Luckily it was open and reserved. Not useful in this case because I had to bother others with my problem.
Booking.com in a bad light
We go back to the year 1996 when Geert-Jan Bruinsma graduated from the University of Twente as a technical business administrator and founded Bookings.nl. Travelers know the company, which has since grown into a multinational with a turnover of 15 billion euros and a stock exchange listing in New York, and is now owned by the American Priceline, all too well.
Hotel booking website Booking stops misleading advertising
Booking website Booking.com will adjust its communication about hotel offers on its website. The originally Dutch company has made agreements about this with the European Commission and ACM.
Grab taxi service now available throughout South East Asia through the Booking.com app
Today, Booking.com is launching an on-demand taxi service in partnership with Grab. This gives users of the Booking.com app access to the largest chauffeur service in 8 countries in Southeast Asia.
I am looking into a holiday to Thailand. Now I'm looking at different booking sites for prices of hotels, mainly at booking.com and agoda. Now I wonder what about the reliability of these sites? Especially those from agoda. I read a lot of negative reviews about this. Is this an unreliable booking site, or are these more exceptional cases?
Book hotels
Wherever you go in the world, booking a hotel is a simple task. You can explore the entire globe via the internet via sites such as hotels.com, booking.com, expedia and trivago; just to name the most important among the many providers. Experience shows that a mutual comparison of the sites can yield an advantage, albeit a small one.
Hotel booking site Booking misleads customers
Those who book a hotel in Bangkok or elsewhere in Thailand often do so via a hotel site such as Booking or Agoda, which act as a kind of intermediary. Still, you have to be on your guard, now that it appears that hotel booking site Booking is misleading its customers.