Winter – this is not the most comfortable time of the year, and many people, if possible, prefer to wait it out in more hospitable to our body latitudes. Lifkhaker wrote a lot about how to fly as comfortably and cheaply as possible, and now it’s time to take care of an equally important issue. How to search hotels for accommodation? We know.
And here we are a little cunning. We did not actually have to dig a topic. The fact is that just a few days ago the next World Travel Awards ceremony took place. This is such a world-wide event, in which they choose the best resort of the planet, the best airline, the best tourist boat and … the best site for searching and comparing prices for hotel accommodation ????
In general, this is the case when the Lifehacker trusts the opinions of world experts, and today we will look at the chips, advantages and disadvantages of RoomGuru.ru – the Russian-language site HotelsCombined.com. It was he who turned out to be the best service in the world for searching and selecting hotels.
Search King
What is special about it? Perhaps you need to start with functionality. Usually a person looks after a suitable hotel in some sort of aggregator, which searches for a variety of travel agencies and agencies. RoomGuru works at a different level – it’s such an aggregator aggregator, a comprehensive search, standing over others, and requesting user-entered information in all other aggregators-search engines of hotels.
If you judge logically, then this is the only way to get ALL the offers, then, based on filters on various parameters, it is also guaranteed to find the sweetest and most suitable option for yourself.
A lot, but just
With so much data processed, RoomGuru surprises with ease of execution. The service is available through the usual web interface, as well as mobile applications for iOS and Android.
There is no fundamental difference in the logic of operation and the availability of certain functions between them. Everything that the site does, can also use the application. We will show the whole process on the mobile iOS application RoomGuru.
How does it work
The first action is to indicate the place where we want to find the hotel. You can use the data of the current location, if you are already in place and you need a place to live, or go to the search. Smart auto-completion system on the move will indicate all possible options, based on user input characters. In this case, it’s Prague hotels. There is no registration, we will enter our data only at the final stage, that is, when booking.
Now you need to specify the date of entry and exit from the hotel.
The last step is to indicate the type of the number. Someone goes on a business trip alone, someone travels with his second half, and some go on vacation with the whole family. All the primary information is indicated, click “Search” and wait for the service to do its job. Seconds pass, and before us 800+ accommodation options only for Prague. In total, the database is more than 400 thousand hotels around the world.
Obviously, it is ungrateful to shovel such a list with your hands, but, in this case, it will not be required. Initially, the entire list is formed according to the general parameter “Recommended” – this is the optimal combination of price and quality of hotels, matching the user’s request + the number of positive reviews. In principle, we can limit ourselves to such a universal sorting, but if there is some definite critical parameter, then go to the “Sorting” and build the output of the results solely on it.
And it also happens that a person has a set of specific requirements, without which he does not even imagine life at the hotel. On personal experience, this requirement can be confidently called Wi-Fi. In large hotels, wireless Internet is always, but if you are looking for something cheaper, you need to make sure of the availability of the service of access to the network and weed out the initially inappropriate hotels.
Go to the “Filter” section. Here we have 9 thematic sections of filters, with which you can find the hotel exclusively for you. Wireless communication is included in the “Facilities” section. In general, with the help of filtering, the user can strictly specify the conditions and intervals at which the service will be able to give out a selection of the most suitable accommodation options.
For greater clarity, search results can be displayed on the map right inside the application. This is relevant for those who need to visually assess the location of the proposed hotels for a particular place in the city.
Any attracted candidate should be considered more closely. Tap on the name of the hotel will display a selection of photos with external types of rooms and the atmosphere inside the hotel and in its surroundings. Below is a description with an assessment and excerpts-quotes, the most frequent in the responses of visitors. On them it is easy to determine, than the hotel is first of all remembered by people who had time to live in it.
Below is a price list by room type. Here you can find the company through which you can book this number.
We are treading on the right one and waiting a little. In fact, this is the end of the work with RoomGuru, and from now on the user communicates with the site of the company that is renting the room. Separate description of the payment procedure does not make sense, because it is standard for all online orders.
The result
RoomGuru, indeed, is very good, and at the moment is objectively an unlimited service for those who need the most complete information on prices and hotels in any corner of the globe, wrapped up in a simple and understandable for use shell. Not the last plus for RoomGuru is his honesty. He is just looking for information for us, without demanding anything in return, even our data and email.
In general, if the plans are worth the trip, and the issue of accommodation has not been solved yet, RoomGuru will certainly help. Recommended for familiarization.
RoomGuru.ru
RoomGuru for iOS
RoomGuru for Android
