ebooking.com, working together with Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN), offers a preview of a new service to enable painless searches for the best deals over a range of dates, showing availability and prices up to 500 days from the search date. This new service is called RateCalendar.
Thanks to the exclusivity offered by ebooking.com, the familiar functionality of flight booking now comes to on-line hotel bookings, for the first time in this sector.
The RateCalendar is a major breakthrough to the user, permitting a simple, visual, fast way to compare and choose a hotel that best suits user’s requirements, within a period of year or more, while still allowing a subsequent cancellation without charges, at most of its hotels.
The first phase of this new system only applies to 25% of the hotel inventory, but will increase to 100% in a few months.
This new feature promises radical change in the way we will make our hotel reservations by allowing customers to have advance information on forward prices while achieving a saving on the reservation (e booking).
As an example, check out operation of the service at the Shangri-la hotel Paris, one of the hotels where the RateCalendar utility is now available.
