How to Choose a Hotel
Choosing a hotel on the Internet is a bit of a minefield.
I use a two web site approach in parallel; Late Rooms and Trip Advisor.
- With Late Rooms you enter the town or city you want and then you choose the hotel according to star ratings, position and your other requirements. They also have quite a few B&Bs.
- You then check user reviews in Trip Advisor.
When you are happy, book the hotel with Late Rooms and usually you will get a good discount. I found two very good hotels this way; Terra Mia, a B&B in Naples and the Relais Piazza San Marco, a spaceous room-only hotel close to St. Mark’s Square in Venice.
Hotels and the Internet
The reason I was going to Blackpool was to see a hotel partly owned by a cousin of my late wife’s and her family. They had Internet issues as the person, who’d run the hotel before they did, still had control of the web site and it rated above them on Google. The e-mail address and domain on that site didn’t exist, so how many bookings had they lost.
So the first thing I did was to buy the domain for the cost of £6 for two years from Low Cost Names and setup the e-mail address so it forwarded to the hotel. I then took lots of pictures and in the next few days will put them up on Trip Advisor. I’ll be honest about what I found at the hotel, as to do anything else would be unethical.
Just as to give the name of the hotel here would be.
