Comments on: Top things people hate in a hotel

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:02:24 +0000

I’m looking forward for your feedback on Zipser And as I mentioned, your idea is a great one! Congratulations! And thank you for the appreciation on presentation. I truly believe that it is impossible not to travel

By: porcea armoni

porcea armoni — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:44:09 +0000

Foarte bine zis. Chiar mi-a placut foarte mult.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:40:35 +0000

I’ve seen your review of the Zipster hotel, we’ll definitely check this one when we’ll go to Vienna to find nice hotel rooms!

To me, the problem with booking.com is randomness. The category for the rooms are not that much explicit nor universal, and I’ve often been disappointed.

You’re right about the pictures, and that’s why we chose to carefully pick the hotels and the rooms so that we can guarantee what is described in our site. I don’t understand why this is not the case on every booking website.

PS: I love the “It’s impossible not to travel” in your about page!

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:19:40 +0000

Thank you, Olivier for your appreciation Interesting your website’s idea I too prefer images – that’s why always when choosing a hotel, even using Booking.com (I usually choose my hotel through it) I look for images (on Booking or other site and place the order after seeing them). Sometimes there’s a big difference, sometimes the pictures are not enough – for instance you cannot imagine how good is and how many food courses you can find at the Zipser hotel (Viena) – we’ve presented it here. This hotel was a nice surprise!

By: Olivier

Olivier — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:40:16 +0000

Great Survey. High price for Wifi is really stressful and often unjustified. But among the things I hate the most when I travel, are n° 8 and 9. It gives such a bad taste to the whole stay which can be great otherwise.

That’s one of the reasons why we’ve launched our booking website of specific boutique rooms in hotels, to avoid those unpleasant surprises. We also take our own pictures of the rooms because of this big difference between hotel pictures of the best rooms and the actual room you get…

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:39:03 +0000

Thank you too – again – for participating. Yes, hotels are… more impersonal – sometimes too impersonal as showed int he survey. If one stays in a hotel many days – just as other – one can meet some of the people – but in a hotel you don’t usually make new friends. The hotel is sometimes just the place you sleep at night, the place you spend the time you cannot spend outside (visiting, walking, going to movies etc.).

By: Juno

Juno — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:17:17 +0000

I prefer Hostel most of the time, only thing I hate about Hotel is ‘can’t meet people’.
But everything is understandable. Great survey!
Good job! Yipee!

And I’m so glad to be a part of it.

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:10:01 +0000

Oh, Gray, thank you – yes, “cleanliness” should include the lack of bedbugs – and you are so right: a bad review on this chapter on a dedicated site (being TripAdvisor or even Booking or a personal blog) it’s enough to make me skip that place!

By: Gray

Gray — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:56:37 +0000

This article pretty much covers the highlights. Under “cleanliness” I’d add bedbugs. This is becoming a huge issue in hotels all over. I don’t know what the solution is, but the hotel industry better figure it out. Any time I read reports of bedbugs in TripAdvisor reviews for a hotel, that hotel goes off my list. It’s bad enough getting bit while you’re on vacation, but I don’t want to risk bringing the little critters home with me and infesting my house.