Apr 5th, 2007
I Don’t Have Time to Lose
I’ve booked all hotels for my trip in Spain. When going from a hotel’s site to another, I’ve realized that I was looking for:
- The price.
- The services.
- The pictures.
- The location.
Easy isn’t it? For me, those 4 criterias should be easily accessible on every hotel website. I really don’t want to search for them.
Yesterday, while looking for an hotel in Granada, I’ve found: Hostal Meridiano in Granada.
Just try to take a look at the pictures. You’ll have to wait for them to appear and you can’t click on them to see them bigger. I got frustrated a bit. I didn’t have time to lose. I’ve left this website. I won’t book there.
In 20 seconds, they lost my business.
And by the way, this website is a perfect example of a non-friendly for search engines website. Just take a look at the source code. There is absolutely no content that search engines can index…
Read also : Adobe Flash is not a Friend of Search Engines
When I visit Spain it’s usually for at least 3 weeks and what I do is rent a village house in one of the white villages such as Gaucin and use it as a base to explore the region, if there’s a few of you it’s very cost effective.
For our next trip to Spain we’re planning on renting a campervan visiting the northern part of the country.
I agree about that hotel website, there’s too many like that. My rule of thumb when dealing with websites like these is, I’ll persevere only if the place is exceptional.
Bon vacances!
Hi Mathieu.
Now that you have your hotel sorted, it’s time to think about what you’re going to do in Spain. May I humbly suggest a quick look at the website I manage, http://www.viator.com. We have a few hundred tours and things to do listed in Spain. Let me know if anything looks good and I’ll try to get you a discount. Happy travels.
-Scott
Cool Scott! Thanks!
Thanks for the tips Garri!
I had exactly the same experience with some hotel sites in the south of France when trying to book something there.
I fear there are still many more people out there who don’t appreciate the world wide web, including many hoteliers.
We just had staying a lady with us, who runs herself a couple of self catering apartments in Melbourne, Australia: “I want nothing to do wit computers” she claimed…..:-)
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