Comments on: Expedia to buy hotel booking site Venere

By: Pauline

Pauline — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:26:36 +0000

I think Expedia will continue to run it as a separate website with the same policies. Booking.com also lets you cancel without fees (according to the hotel policy). With Expedia, you are usually getting a cheaper price - so they make it harder to cancel. (That is my guess!)

By: girasoli

girasoli — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:16:51 +0000

I wonder if this means that cancellations a few days before will no longer be an option. I have found Venere very convenient to make bookings when the other option was providing your credit card info through email or fax (since I don’t own a fax machine.

First time I have heard of the Beat of Hawaii blog. Great blog! Thanks for the link!

By: Pauline

Pauline — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:33:13 +0000

Thanks for commenting Susan - it is good to know that graphic is gone. I think it was only there for a few months, because it was in late 2006 that I noticed it.

I always compare Venere and Booking.com too - both sites are good to book with.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:10:47 +0000

Jonathan and Pauline
You’ll be happy to hear that the pop-up was removed from the Venere site in late 2006 :)

By: jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:16:07 +0000

Interesting coincidence. I don’t often use these sites, but today looked at both Venere and Booking.com for our Baden Baden hotel this Thursday (the start of this year’s Ostuni road trip). I didn’t get that horrible pop up for Venere, I’m glad to say (never seen it, though Firefox’s blocker tends to stop these things). For the same hotel (one we’ve used before), Venere was €9 cheaper - so we went with them!