See Your Hotel’s Blog

First let me state clearly which site I describe as Travel Meta-Search, Kayak or Mobissimo. Those site are great to find bargains, I mostly use them for airplane tickets. It would be more precise to say I try to use them for airplane tickets.

First reason I hate them after spending many minutes trying to find a great deal for my tickets, I click on the link to the airline booking site. The airline booking site is responding with a wonderful error saying the WebLogic server is having problem. Yes I’m talking about United here.

Second, when the site is responding the price has just magically changed. Sometimes you see why, like the taxes where not included in the first price, but also sometimes it just has changed. It gets old very fast to search again.

Third, They try to do everything, but they don’t excel at trip planning. They are very good at sending you away and opening a myriad of windows to allow you to book your trip all over the web. Once your trip is booked, they don’t have a trace of what you bought where.

Fourth, it is just too long and I need to check too many different sites. On top of all the sites for the different bookings, I have to go to many other sites to plan my trip.

• Tripadvisor for the reviews.
• Google Maps for the location and the itineraries.
• YouTube and  flickr for some user videos and pictures. They are often more telling than reviews.
• The Weather Channel to find the condition when I’ll take my trip. Also dig to find what will be the weather in march in Rome, because that is when I’ll go…
• Not listing the what to do, what to see sites here, it will be endless

We are not there yet with our site, but we are working on all this and that seems to be more than what most of these online travel agent seem to be doing.

We decided to try to keep you better informed about the changes we do, so here is the latest one. We added hotels from Venere to the site, this brings the number of hotels on SeeYourHotel to more than 100,000. While we are glad to offer more hotels, we are especially happy that those new hotels comes from the excellent inventory of Venere. They offer a good selection all around the world, but they excel at providing European hotels. Finding hotels just where you wanted to stay got easier.

Here is a review of SeeYourHotel on a directory of web applications.

It is fun to see more and more mention on the web. I would say it pretty much snowballed from the Springwise mention. They posted a neat article about SeeYourHotel. This one led to others that were very inspired by the first and then some site like makeusof took the time to do their homework and see what they could bring to the conversation. For us, it’s all good and we hope many will find our site useful and tell us also how to make it even better.

We named it “Stay Tonight” and it is available for free from the App Store. This is an application that allows you to see the 10 closest hotels that have a room available for tonight. It is useful for when something goes wrong. Like when an airport close for the night due to bad weather. If this has ever happened to you, you know what happens next. All hotels in the vicinity are booked. Finding the number for each hotel and calling them one by one could mean you’ll end up much farther than if you just call directly the hotels that still have rooms.

Obviously you can use in other time and you may come with all kind of ways to use it. Also you can change the date for the lookup or the composition of your party and the numbers of room you require. Try it, and then let us know how you find it. Let’s make it the best IPhone Hotel Finder tool.