Hotels.com Reveals it Pays to Shop Around as Top End Hotels Cut Prices

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Covent Garden, London (PRWEB) December 16, 2009 Hotels.com, the leading accommodation site, has encouraged travellers to shop around when booking their Christmas city breaks to secure a top end hotel for a mid end price.* Top-end hotels (particularly those in the four-star category) have cut their prices harder than other categories, which means that the price difference between a three-star hotel and a four-star is less than it has been for years. The average cost of upgrading from a mid-range to a top class hotel is as low as £2 per night in Oslo, just £7 in Barcelona and £9 in Madrid and Mexico City. The cost of a shift to a four-star hotel can bring huge benefits, with better facilities, often more central locations, great restaurants (for that all important holiday breakfast)

Hotels.com reports Brits looking beyond the Eurozone as Pound plummets

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Covent Garden, London (PRWEB) September 26, 2009 Hotels.com has revealed that the plummeting pound has prompted a rush amongst British travellers to look for a getaway beyond the major Eurozone destinations. With the Euro almost at parity with the pound, the cost of a holiday in many continental cities has spiralled for Brits heading abroad. Hotels.com, the leading online accommodation website, has seen a surge in searches for breaks in cities where the pound remains relatively strong against local currencies, as travellers look to make their money go further. The steepest increase in searches came in the Moroccan city of Marrakech. As the pound has sunk, searches for hotels in the city are up by 250%. Searches for Reykjavik hotels have risen 60% while searches for

The Beacon Hotel in South Beach Launches Community Page

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Beacon Hotel South Beach Miami Beach, FL (Vocus) May 20, 2009 The Beacon Hotel is proud to be one of the first South Beach Hotels to launch its own community page created for the purpose of engaging employees, guests, and vendors in the Beacon Hotel community. Guests who visit this page can become fans of the Beacon Hotel on Facebook, add the Beacon on Myspace, follow the hotel’s postings on Twitter, or view the hotel’s community involvement videos on YouTube. Most importantly, guests are provided with the opportunity to contribute to raise funds for Habitat for Humanity, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and World Vision. Since 2005 the Beacon Hotel has been a leader amongst South Beach

Hotel Murano Wins in HotelWorld’s Global Hospitality & Design Awards Competition: The First Glass-art Hotel in the World Wins its Seventh Award

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Hotel Murano Front Desk Tacoma, WA (PRWEB) March 5, 2009 Hotel Murano, an international glass hotel, is honored with an award in the “Best Lobby/Public Space – Full Service” category at HotelWorld’s Global Hospitality & Design Awards competition on March 3, 2009, in Las Vegas. “Without the international collection of glass art showcased in the hotel, we could not have achieved this honor,” said Denise Corso, principal of CorsoStaicoff. “The design team focused on making the Murano an interesting and memorable experience while ensuring the design did not overshadow or interrupt the art and its continuity in the hotel.” With multiple entries from all over the

HotelThailand.com Introduces Review Feature With Unbiased Travel Advice for Booking Hotels in Thailand

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Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) September 23, 2008 Finding a perfect hotel for any first time visit can be tricky. HotelThailand.com makes travel planning much easier by compiling thousands of real traveller’s reviews and unbiased opinions of hotels in all Thailand destinations. For popular tourist hubs including Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya and Chiang Mai, travellers can swiftly compare prices and special promotions which are updated regularly. When an attractive hotel appears on site, the likelihood is that beautiful photos can deceive, hotel overviews can mislead, the location map scale can be off or the hotel may not be telling its guests everything – so who can you trust? This is when the honest Hotel Reviews become handy. Read the final say from fellow travellers

A Comprehensive Hotel List for Costa Rica Now Available Online

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San Jose, Costa Rica (PRWEB) June 28, 2008 Costa Rican Hotels (http://www.costarican-hotels.com) recently launched its informative website at which users may have access to a complete list of accommodations as well as daily information about Costa Rica. The initiative to start this project was born from the need of having a website that would present the user with the largest Costa Rican hotels’ list online. The majority of popular Costa Rican hotels are scattered around the World Wide Web and are usually found by users who know where to look. With the Costa Rican Hotels website, the intention is for the user to discover new hotels in new regions all in one place. “We wanted to bring the diversity of Costa Rica’s accommodations to the world and not

Hotel Pure Adds its First Beach Property

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San Jose, Costa Rica (PRWEB) January 8, 2008 Overseas Hotel Management of Costa Rica was in talks with the owners of the Hotel Tropicana in order to include the property with the Hotel Pure brand. After a couple of weeks of conversation and a visit out to the Hotel Tropicana, Overseas Hotel Management’s CEO, Mr. Melvin Pereira, recently signed Hotel Pure’s third property. The Hotel Tropicana has become the first beach property to come under the Hotel Pure brand in Costa Rica. The incorporation of Hotel Tropicana, as well as future beach and mountain hotels, will greatly benefit not only the Hotel Pure brand, but the traveler as well. Hotel Pure properties throughout Costa Rica will allow for a wide variety of destinations within the

Hotels.com Announce Hotel Deals for Top Bond Destinations

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(PRWEB) November 13, 2008 To coincide with the release of the latest James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, Hotels.com have announced details of discounts for hotels in the cities visited by Bond. The 22nd film in the Bond series sees the English spy travelling the world making stops in Haiti, Austria, Italy and much of South America. Although one of the major action scenes of Quantum of Solace has Daniel Craig trying to escape an exploding hotel, there are actually several great hotel destinations mentioned in the film with those in the Italian capital ranking high on Hotels.com’s list of top romantic getaways, with up to 30% discounts being offered on many Rome hotels (http://www.hotels.co.uk/hotel-italy/hotel-rome/ ), ideal for film fans wanting to relive the

Booking.com Revealed as No. 1 in Hotel Availability this Christmas by HotelsCombined

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(PRWEB) November 27, 2007 Planning your Christmas party or a romantic Christmas Eve dinner with an overnight hotel stay can be hindered by not finding any available hotel rooms over Christmas. Many hotel reservation websites offer hotels, packages and special deals for Christmas, but how many actually have available rooms for the most important date on the calendar. In research conducted by HotelsCombined.com this week, the following eight leading travel sites were compared for hotel availability over Christmas: Booking.com, Gtahotels.com, HotelClub.com, Hotwire.com, Lastminute.com, Laterooms.com, Priceline.com and Opodo.co.uk.* HotelsCombined.com compared the number of available hotels returned by these sites for the world’s ten most visited cities: Paris,

Hotels.com launches nanobreak competition

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London, UK (PRWEB) August 12, 2009 Hotels.com, the world’s leading hotel website, has launched a new competition to encourage Britons to take a break, however short. The new Hotels.com contest comes on the back of research which showed a 46%* increase in the number of UK holidaymakers searching for single night holidays or ‘nanobreaks’ over the past year. In keeping with the ‘nano’ theme, the competition encourages participants to create a mini blog about their nanobreak either as a series of Twitter posts, photos using Flickr or on video using YouTube. The entries will then be streamed live from these social media sites to a dedicated competition page on Hotels.com. The person who posts the best entry, as judged by a Hotels.com