Tourists who want to stay in a hotel on their own, with each passing day it becomes more and more. Some people like to organize the trip in its sole discretion, someone simply seeking more advantageous to book a hotel and other services without the mediation of tour operators, and others are taking the first steps toward independent tourism - as it happens? Today we will discuss the nuances and pitfalls of online booking of hotels and analyze a specific example of self-booking.
About independent tourism there are many opinions and often opposite. Someone badly organized the trip and now he trusts the job only a professional travel company. But someone made a difficult tour, received a multi-visa, and now in a travel agency or foot. I will try to be objective and describe the basic pros and cons of self-reservation, but the choice should do yourself.
The wealth of choice . On Web sites, reservation, of course, a wide choice of hotels and other accommodation facilities - apartments, hostels, etc. In travel agencies, related contracts and pledged to "ship" some hotels do not always have such a wide range. With the same hostels, for example, the travel company to work just not interested - the quality leaves much to be desired (that is fraught with claims of tourists), the price is quite low, and profit from this contract will be low.
Therefore, if you need the lowest price for accommodation, regardless of its comfort and its distance from the center - the online booking system here would be a good helper. Just as in the case of principle any particular hotel, which is not represented at the travel agencies.
Price. And here we can not say that any Booking.com unequivocally "win" travel company. Besides the already mentioned on the contract for some "basic" hotels in at the travel agency the price will be better - it is checked repeatedly.
Owners of hotels is more important to establish friendly relations with tour companies, which is guaranteed to send tourists than to hope that his hotel choose from thousands of others in the online booking form. So be sure to compare prices at different sites, including and travel agencies!
Recruitment Services . With self-booking look for the services included in the price of the hotel. Is breakfast included? A city taxes, fees, and other fees?
It happens that the attractive price of the site on-line booking is magically enhanced to include additional fees. Always look up, the final cost.
Currency and bank. Russian tourists often pay ruble bank cards. And the price of hotels named in the best case, in US dollars or euros, and then in local currency, such as the South African rand. That is, your bank will convert your rubles in the specified currency. And he did it would be in its exchange rate, rather than at the rate of the Central Bank. Plus some banks for such operations and taking a commission. Little things, but they should be considered - they affect the final cost of the order.
Recently I had a case where a tourist himself decided to book a hotel in Tokyo. The difference between our site and the price was low, but self defeating. When paying by bank transferred rubles into dollars, and dollars into yen, for it took the commission and "eaten" all the difference in the cost.
"Freeze" means and returns. Another detail that intersects with the previous. On many sites (although less frequently), offering to pay upon arrival, not in advance. But to make sure of the seriousness of the reservation and the availability of funds on the card, the system "freezes" any sum (for example, the price of one night). After payment, the hotel shall be returned to the bank card. However, under the terms of the majority of banks, the return may take 3 to 60 days. That is, if you have booked with the value of 5 * 200-300 euros night, then on them you will not be able to count quickly. And even if you remove the armor and do not go, the return of these "frozen" means the system (hotel) may not exercise - then read carefully the conditions of the reservation.
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