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Booking.com is to hotels what Ticketmaster is to live events. Total scumbags, terrible customer service, over charging, false promises. I might use booking.com to find a hotel but I'll always book direct once I find one.
> I'll always book direct once I find one. Sometimes booking direct is expensive and the hotels most of them have a shitty website.
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Booking.com is the poster child of 'dark UX patterns' like that.
BooKing.com is one of the biggest Perl shops in the world. They're desperate to hire lots of willing Perl programmers, so they have to set the bar low. And inexperienced programmers cause lots of security problems. Edit: My point is about the moral flexibility of BooKing.com, which is well established and widely known, not good Perl programmers, who are rare, hard to hire, and extremely expensive (especially by Nethe…
I guess the Board knows well enough how many skeletons they're hiding (either personally, or the company itself) and what US laws might be pulled out of the hat to give them an Assange or Huawey treatment. You don't mess with the US, even when you're the victim.
Every time I read such articles, I replace the nationalities American with Russian or Chinese just to gauge how the reactions would be.
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at the same time the UI is awesome. using booking.com on a regular basis and I'm quite happy with it.
When searching for an accomodation, booking.com offers a map, which shows the price of each accomodation, with filters applied. This is so useful and I wish other travel sites also had this. A list of a 200 hotels of $50-100 is simply not enough information when searching in an unknown city. I need to narrow down that list, for example with features like a kitchenette (60 hotels left), but also a location near the ci…
Trivago does the same and maybe others, too.
I think that we need to create a hashtag to associate with all these cases of "obviously not true".
> The specific intelligence organization—of which the United States has 18—is unknown. I certainly couldn't have named them all, so I dug up a list: • Air Force Intelligence • Army Intelligence • Central Intelligence Agency • Coast Guard Intelligence • Defense Intelligence Agency • Department of Energy • Department of Homeland Security • Department of State • Department of the Treasury • Drug Enforcement Administrati…
And the one that can’t be named?
This isn’t surprising to me. I know lots of people who work for this company in the Netherlands, and I’ve heard a lot of inside stories about the questionable business practices that go on there. Starting at the very top, with the fraudulent marketing lies to sell you rooms because there’s only X number of rooms left, which is entirely bogus, and for which the courts have punished them, if I recall. They’re not inter…
For some reason, the hotel business seems pretty shady. My sense from crawling the web is that it's one of the areas that have the most blackhat SEO as well. Straight up linkfarms. This is sheer speculation, but I do think the hotel business is really convenient to get into if you have a questionable side-business and need to launder money. Who is to say if a room was occupied or not that night, if that foreigner who…
This isn’t surprising to me. I know lots of people who work for this company in the Netherlands, and I’ve heard a lot of inside stories about the questionable business practices that go on there. Starting at the very top, with the fraudulent marketing lies to sell you rooms because there’s only X number of rooms left, which is entirely bogus, and for which the courts have punished them, if I recall. They’re not inter…
For some reason, the hotel business seems pretty shady. My sense from crawling the web is that it's one of the areas that have the most blackhat SEO as well. Straight up linkfarms. This is sheer speculation, but I do think the hotel business is really convenient to get into if you have a questionable side-business and need to launder money. Who is to say if a room was occupied or not that night, if that foreigner who…
Here in th EU, they usually have a look at your passport. I think it's enforced by law in some places. Government overreach
Booking.com is to hotels what Ticketmaster is to live events. Total scumbags, terrible customer service, over charging, false promises. I might use booking.com to find a hotel but I'll always book direct once I find one.
> I'll always book direct once I find one. Sometimes booking direct is expensive and the hotels most of them have a shitty website.