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> I find the fire escape plan, and I follow it. Yeah, actually try this sometime. I do this regularly and it's amazing how often floors are locked from the sta
by tomcam 4y ago
> I find the fire escape plan, and I follow it.
Yeah, actually try this sometime. I do this regularly and it's amazing how often floors are locked from the stairwell, and more than once I have found floors skipped--you take the 4rth floor stairwell down and end up in a basement kitchen or something.
Also he neglects to mention in the "Book online" section that it's always safer to book directly from the hotel website. Fewer middlement. These days their prices are competitive or better than the aggregation sites, and with better terms. Some aggregation sites have little compunction about booking the wrong room, then don't refund things the hotel would if you dealt with them directly.
- parker_mountain 4y ago> These days their prices are competitive or better than the aggregation sites, and with better terms I travel extensively for work, and this is simply not true. Literally last week, I saved $40 by booking through hoteltonight in Chicago. Once you get close to the date of the stay, prices become squirrely and weird. This is definitely true if you're booking more than two weeks in advance, though.
- bboygravity 4y agoDefinitely true for Europe. I pretty much live in hotels and so far 100% of my bookings where either cheaper (usually) or the same price (rarely) on the hotel's own webste vs aggregators. Regardless of my "genious discount level 9000" or "save up 10 nights and get 1 free" and all the other "discounts" that you actually paid for indirectly on aggregators. The only place where this didn't hold true for me so far was a hotel in Indonesia, where the price quoted at the hotel desk in person was higher than a certain aggregator. The people at the front desk suggested I'd book online and I did :)
- closewith 4y agoEurope is a big place. It's not true in Ireland, anyway.
- anakaine 4y agoI've tried probably a dozen times within the past 6 months to book both domestic and international hotels. Not once when looking at many dozens of places was if cheaper to book directly on the hotels website, even months in advance.
- raverbashing 4y agoI just wouldn't bother with "cheaphotels dot com" or some random aggregator for a small discount Besides not wanting another random website having my data, the chance of misbookings is high. Hotwire/Priceline models might actually give cheaper bookings or when you can have a less flexible booking/prepaying for example. The discount models hotels use are fixed, there's no magic in a random website giving you a discount.
- tomcam 4y agoYou said it way better than I did!
- shapefrog 4y agoI phone the hotel, quote the best price I have seen and get it 99% of the time.
- saagarjha 4y agoI find that a lot of fire escapes are alarmed. How would you test these?
- Scoundreller 4y ago> it's amazing how often floors are locked from the stairwell, and more than once I have found floors skipped--you take the 4rth floor stairwell down and end up in a basement kitchen or something. This is a common balance to ensure you can still evacuate to another stairwell if your chosen one becomes blocked for whatever reason, and providing additional security. Sometimes called « crossover floors ». I guess you could ask at a hotel to NOT be placed on one, but I kinda doubt front desk will be familiar with which to avoid.
- tomcam 4y agoDidn’t know that. Glad there’s a good reason. Thank you.