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As a European I find it amazing I hadn't even heard of this $100bn company till now.
by jahnu 9y ago
As a European I find it amazing I hadn't even heard of this $100bn company till now.
- lobster_johnson 9y agoAside from Booking.com, they also own KAYAK, Cheapflights, Rentalcars.com and Open Table (the restaurant booking app).
- smcg 9y agoI was about to say "I don't know anyone who uses Priceline" but I didn't know they owned all those other companies and sites as well.
- jxramos 9y agothat I did not know. Good leveraging of similar applications.
- perfectstorm 9y agoTIL. I usually use Kayak and Booking.com (because you've the option to pay when you checkout). This comment made me realize that their only other major competitor is Expedia (fun fact: Expedia originated from Microsoft).
- komali2 9y agoI don't know how skyscanner continues to manage to fly under the radar. I've never found cheaper prices on any other aggregator.
- LightskinKanye 9y agoHave ya tried kiwi.com
- Consultant32452 9y agoGoogle flights is the best airline aggregator.
- fowl2 9y agoRegion specific. Good luck for flights in Asia/Australia/Pacific.
- guelo 9y agoYou've probably heard of Booking.com
- throwaway91111 9y agoActually no. Why is it so popular? It seems to have fewer features than hipmunk.... Not to knock them, though, it's a hard problem to solve well from an interface and integrations perspective.
- front2back44 9y agoLots of people use them. They're very very into AB testing to the point where they have a building at HQ dedicated to user testing. It may not look like much but they know how to drive their consumers to checkout. And another plus is that they offer free cancellation up to around 24 to 48 hours before your booking.
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- atombender 9y agoPersonally, I reach for Booking.com because they're simply better than most competitors. They have a huge inventory of hotels, and they have a functional, fairly responsive search interface that isn't annoying. The last part is important — there's little in terms of popups, ads, intrusive upsells, flashy UI elements, and so on. It's not the most modern, but it's very well optimized towards finding stuff. For example, the path to seeing photos is very short (Hipmunk also does well here). Since they're very popular, they also have the benefit of having a large repository of reviews, and I find it easier than other sites to glean, from reviews and scores, how good a hotel is compared to others. TripAdvisor comes close, but is too annoying. Hipmunk is okay, but scores lower on usability for me than Booking.com.
- mp01 9y ago> TripAdvisor comes close, but is too annoying. Have you tried the new UI?
- jdross 9y agoBooking.com is part of Priceline group
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoUK here, heard of it, never heard anyone mention it nor seen anything of it in traditional media however. Presumably they're a USA only company?
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- vertex-four 9y agoThey do exist in the UK, they're a competitor to LateRooms. They regularly have adverts on the TV. They never seem to have cheaper inventory than LateRooms though.
- _delirium 9y agoBooking.com is very popular in Europe. In fact for years it was pretty much only in Europe. It was founded in the Netherlands and stuck to the continental European market initially. Now it's global, but Europe is still one of its bigger markets, and it's still headquartered in Amsterdam, though now as a subsidiary of an American company.
- dtech 9y agobooking.com is ginormous, at least everyone I know in the Netherlands using it to book hotels.
- splonk 9y agoThey're the biggest OTA in the UK, probably a little bit above Expedia, and with a wider gap between the top 2 and Agoda and LateRooms. They're also the biggest OTA in Europe at large. Priceline (really, Booking.com) is much bigger in Europe than the US.