Interesting comment (not complaint) about EXPEDIA and other travels ites
Chris sent this message to share his experience with you
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:13:34 -0400
From: “Chris”
To:
Subject: expedia BS
Hello,
Just felt compelled to share with someone what I just experienced. So,
I googled “expedia scams” and found you. Put this up is you want,
please protect my identity; call me Chris if you want, but don’t use
my e-mail or contact info please.
So. I was looking for a romatic getaway from my girlfriend and I and
thought “Hey, Captain Kirk’s got my back” so I went on all those
sites. Expedia, Orbits, Cheaptickets, Hotels dot com. Expedia had the
lowest price, but for some reason, I decided to try to bargain with
the hotel and just called them. I told the girl at the front desk that
I looked at all these sites and the cheapest I found was 239$ a night.
So I asked her if it was better to do that or go through the hotel
first hand and she told me that is is ALWAYS more expensive to use
those sites. She quoted me a price of 199$ a night for a better room!
Anyway, my intuition was correct, and I booked two nights for probably
100$ cheaper and a better room just by calling the hotel myself.
Im sorta pissed that these damn commercials make us think that we will
save all this money when we actually save money by dealing with the
hotel directly. I hope that you can get this out to people so they may
take the time to do what I did.
Chris.
