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Working hard behind the scenes.

Chris Knights (Co-Founder) | 27 August, 2009

Over the course of the last few months we've been working hard in the background to enhance your overall experience whilst browsing our site. Searching for a hotel can be over-whelming at times, we believe these new features will assist you whilst choosing and booking your hotel.

Recomendations
Last month, we released our recomendation/profiling framework. Put simply, this framework allows you to see what other customers are searching for and what hotels they are looking and booking. There are now two new 'pods' to look out for...

What other customers are viewing...
Located on the hotels homepage, this displays the four most frequently viewed hotels.
Customers who viewed this item also viewed...
Located on the hotel information pages, this displays four hotels that other customers have viewed similar to your recent search history.

Hotel Reviews (By our customers)
Nice images and - if available - video walk-throughs help when choosing a hotel, however these are almost always provided by the hotel. Over the last year or so we've been collecting reviews from real customers and are pleased to now include these reviews along side the hotel information. These reviews are from genuine customers, catagorised by type of traveler and are not vetted. These reviews allow you to get advice from real travelers.

Near by Images
So many hotels focus on providing you with images of the hotel and its facilities that they forget to include images of the area. In collaboration with Panaromia (by Google) we now show area photos along side the hotel information to give you a 'feel' for the area.