LateRooms started in 1999 is a hotel reservation database that provides the platform for selling late availability facilities of the hotel industry. Hotels from all around the world use this website for informing people about their discount and many genuine deals.
LateRooms enables customers to save a great deal of money. The hotels listed are mainly from UK and different parts of Europe. LateRooms is also updating their database by adding hotels from other continents as well. They operate mainly from Manchester situated in UK. They also have their offices in Italy, Spain, Barcelona and Milan. LateRooms is so well liked that they were rated as sixteenth in a prestigious league table ranking, 2005 Tech Track 100 sponsored by Sunday Times. This league table ranks rapidly growing technology companies, which are unquoted. LateRooms is featured in Top Travel Sites of Sunday Times and also in Telegraph.
LateRooms use the unique selling proposition (USP) of displaying a live/close to live availability of numerous hotels for customers to choose from quickly and without any hassles.
Features of LateRooms:
Hotels use this database to give their rates and actual availability. For using this facility, LateRooms charge these hotels commissions for all the bookings made through them. The hotels are meant to update daily to provide precise information. The
Hotels are classified on the basis of their geographic locations. Visitors can use their search option to find out all the available options on a particular date, at the required location having all the desired facilities, displayed in a single page. Moreover, all the selection of room rates available on the given date will be shown. This makes the search of visitors much easier, as they get numerous options from which to decide what will suit them, at the best rates possible. Another feature of
LateRooms is maps, depicting the places where hotels are situated, along with detailed city guides, especially of London, Rome and Paris.
Booking Process:
To book rooms click the button “Book by Telephone” to dial the telephone number of
LateRooms, and mention the reference number shown on the database. For booking, the language options available consist of English, French, Spanish, German or Italian.
Another way is to book online. This is done by clicking the “Book Online”. After this, enter the personal information like name, telephone number, email id and credit card information. The website will verify the booking and send the customer an email confirming it. One of the main advantages is that
Late Rooms will not charge the customers any reservation fee. All the customer has to do is make payment to the hotel. But in the event of the customer cancelling their booking, the customer may be liable to pay a cancellation charge, specified in the confirmation email. Bookings can even be made twelve months, prior to the required date.
Some hotels used the platform just for advertising, without giving correct details. They state that all their rooms will be available on all dates at the same rates.
LateRooms have taken steps to prevent this.
