These days, I make practically all of my hotel bookings through services on the Web or directly on hotel or hotel-chain websites.
Sternlicht's timely Priceline purchase closely preceded Starwood's decision to sell some excess hotel rooms through the Web outfit, which gave a big boost to Priceline's credibility.
To this end, Sales Spider has relevant member discounts for things like hotel rooms, car rentals, web hosting and even business loans.
The SportsTravel Web site contains a hotel directory listing which hotels are located nearest the stadiums and which hotels host the visiting teams.
People linger delightedly at the Hotel Habitat by Enric Ruiz-Geli with Cloud 9 Acconci Studio and Ruy Ohtake, a miniature simulacrum of a proposed four-star hotel for Barcelona covered with a web of 5, 000 winking light-emitting diodes, or LEDS, powered by solar cells for a nighttime display of glowing colors.
Five of us sat in the corner of a hotel lobby and, accustomed to dealing with Web 2.0 start-up teams composed of post-adolescents, I was astonished to find that, in my mid-fifties, I was the youngest person there.
They use Mphasis' technology to assess and analyze over the Web the performance of Blackstone's hotel properties.
Recently, when I checked-in at a New York City hotel, the manager was at the reception desk and I told him (I already knew his name through my Web explorations) the reason why I had made reservations was based on several previous hotel guests positive comments on the Traveladvisor Internet site.
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This is especially true at luxury hotel brands that typically do not discount below their own web advertised lowest prices like Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental and Peninsula.
Next, make a list of the phone numbers and Web addresses for your travel agent, airline, hotel, rental car company, and any other travel related contacts.
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Please note that, as spelled out on the web site, the IRS does not recognize donations of hotel points as tax a deduction since taxes were not collected from individuals when they earned the points.
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That means there are many more things that can be done with Web sites, beyond the more simpler things now where you can click to buy a book or click to make a hotel reservation -- many, many more things will be done when you always have the Web with you.
The Piccadilly hotel's solicitors had written to Mr Malde in December to say they were concerned about the web address and the use of the trading name The Ritz.
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