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Booking hostels online? Craig and Linda give a quick review of several hostel booking websites that google throws up. We mention a couple of specialist places, like Hosteling International’s booking engine and Gomio’s European portal, throw away a couple and finally nominate hostelbookers as our favourite booking engine.
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Our favourite hostel booking website is hostelbookers.com! Congrats guys.
Written by: Craig and Linda
Posted on: Friday, June 8th, 2007
Posted in: Accommodation, Podcasts, Reviews
Responses: 7 so far
Useful advice. It was interesting to hear a comparison of the different sites.
When I’m traveling I often use Hostelz.com. It uses sites like hostelbookers.com to take the actual bookings, but much of their content is original. You can also find direct contact information for hostels on hostelz.com.
September 13th, 2007 at 5:52 amHi Craig & Linda!
Love the Podcast – and great to see that your favorite is HostelBookers.com as it is mine too!!
One thing that you didn’t mention was the 24×7 live chat facility available on HostelBookers. I feel that it differentiates their site from all of the others in Hostel booking market space.
The live chat tool is always on, and helps to guide and navigate visitors around the site, using hyperlinks and co-browsing to direct customers to the info that they are looking for.
In addition, it turns a 24-36 hour response time to emails, into a 12 second response time to chats – Now that’s impressive and results in a much happier customer!! – What do you guys think?
Look forward to hearing your next podcast and any further comments – Feel free to get in touch!
Best,
Ali
October 4th, 2007 at 5:01 pmI’ve used http://www.bookmein.com.au for booking Hostels and Accommodation when travelling in Australia. This site has a load of good content for travellers.
June 27th, 2008 at 6:31 amWe use http://hostelworld.com which i think is the best one for our hostel in david panama http://www.bambuhostel.com we have gotten loads of bookings from them, well organised and easy to use site i highly recommend.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:29 pmUpdate, we just opened a deluxe landscaped in ground pool and mayan style rancho bar making bambu hostel an actual backpackers resort! http://www.bambuhostel.com new in david panama international backpackers always welcome.
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September 19th, 2008 at 8:36 pm