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I despise the experience so much that I can’t feel bad about the demise of that website. They’re are guilty of all the dark patterns imaginable. The day you stop providing a useful tool to your users is the day you can start counting til you close shop. On the other hand google hotel is providing a top service.

This is actually my biggest worry with facebook. Even though I own their stocks, I’m scared that they are following a path where they maximize engagement versus providing utility. Facebook back in the days was definitely an amazing tool that you’d be crazy not to use. Today, not so much.

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I'm not necessarily a huge fan but I'm not sure what the alternative there is. They're pretty comprehensive. If you have any suggestions by the way I'm very happy to jump ship!

I use Destinia.com. They usually have the same hotels as other sites but prices are usually much cheaper. Sometimes not just slightly cheaper, but €500+ cheaper. Been using them for more than 10 years.

Thanks, this is a new one for me. I've been happy with hotels.com for a very long time, but now I'll start comparing here. I'm amazed that Destinia appears to still be independent. Usually by this age of successful travel company, they would be owned by Expedia or Booking (Holdings).

What’s wrong with google hotel? I travel exclusively with airbnb now but in the rare cases I can’t I’ll use google hotel

I’ve had a decent 15 years or so of using Expedia (.de and .com, depending on where I was traveling and which credit card I wanted to use). Prices and availability generally in line (maybe slightly higher prices) as Booking.com, without the in-your-face FOMO inducements.

I banned the use of Expedia in our company because they were almost never able to produce a decent invoice (in the name of the company, listing the name of the employee who had the room). Expedia said the hotel has to provide the invoice. The hotel said Expedia has to provide the invoice because we had contract with Expedia.

Never such a problem with booking, because with booking the contract always has been directly with the hotel.

Oh - forgot about that problem and wild goose chase the one time I foolishly tried to save my employer money on a hotel booking. Learned that lesson, never booking outside of miserable Concur for work travel again (should I ever travel for work again).

Personal travel, on the other hand… still an Expedia fan.

recently, I have used it to find the hotel, then booked direct.

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