My New experience for hotel rooms in Delhi, India.
Have you ever thought that when you are planning for your next trip and looking for Last minute hotels deals or cheap flight tickets how comfortable are you while going and checking on the same with your nearest or favorite travel agent? Most of us call our travel agent to check on the hot destination these days according to our choice and budget. If we are planning to stay in B&B. Budget hotel or 5 star luxury hotels then our options and choice can be totally different.
Travel agent come a source who can suggest the hotel room rates and options available on various airlines for flight tickets but do we really believe
I seem very difficult to believe that the travel agent have the full knowledge of every destination and of hotel rooms available at our destination. Travel agent supplies us with few hotel room rates along with the star category. In that case we start looking for the Google location map to see the location of our hotel. But, I believe that google map is also not sufficient enough. Google maps might not tell you if your hotel is next door to nightclub that blasts out music until 7am. Customer reviews might though. Don’t know why I am saying this as you know all this.
In the same manner the hotel room rates which are offered by the travel agents and online travel sites are always more expensive because everyone keep on adding his/her commission or fee on the hotel room tariff. We normally find after reaching at the hotel that hotel rates which we have got through the travel agent/online site still on a higher side than the hotel rates but then we have no other option than to ignore it and start thinking of having good vacation at the hotel of our choice.
But, I have used the new way for booking hotel rooms which I can to know through one of the user review at one of the travel site. I was traveling to India with my family and we were looking for good decent hotel room in Delhi. While surfing through the net I came across to the hotel bidding site in India (name of the site - Bid2travel.com) and I was happy to see that these bids on Bid2travel.com were directly handled by the hotel owners and not by the travel agent. I decided to bid for the known international brand 5 star hotel in Delhi. I placed a bid for hotel room for 125 American dollars (around 6000 Indian rupees) dollars including breakfast and taxes. As with my previous experience in USA I was aware that these sites can get you great deals sometime but was not aware that there are site like this existing for Indian hotels as well. I was surprise that see that our American sites ask for 1-3 days times and whereas this Bid2travel.com was assuring hotel confirmation maximum with in three hours.
Most importantly is that I got the hotel room confirmation against my bid and stayed at this luxury 5 star hotel for only 125 Dollars and where I paid 265 dollars last time. I also came to know from the hotel that this site of Bid2travel.com is giving good business to this hotel as well because they are actually selling the hotel’s vacant room at the lowest cost through bid on hotel rooms to the customers like me.
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