I don't know is my answer to both questions. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone
On 16/05/2013, at 18:37, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > Thanks, I will give it a try. These are all free apps, so it’s easy enough to > compare some prices on both apps. > > Does Wotif.com offer Passbook integration? Any idea what the name “Wotif” > means? > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > David Chittenden > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:32 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Wotif..com was Re: Booking.com app > > Hello, > > I used booking.com app in 2011 and it was fully accessible. The accessibility > difficulty was introduced sometime between then and now. I found booking.com > to be good for US hotels. I now live in NZ. > > I found wotif.com consistently has better prices than booking.com for the > Australasian region. Even better, wotif.com is fully accessible throughout > the app. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > > On 16/05/2013, at 0:51, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello List, > > Those on the list who travel a lot, have you ever used the Booking.com app > for finding hotels and making reservations? I would like to confirm that your > experience is the same as mine which is this: I find the app is pretty much > fully accessible, however, once you enter a city or place, select your > check-in date, number of nights, number of people in the room and tap search, > the list of hotels that comes up is hard to navigate. My iPhone 4S becomes > very sluggish in the app, if I touch the screen it takes a moment for the > information to read and it is not possible to right flick through the > listing. As far as I can tell, 3 hotels are displayed at a time and you can > find them by exploring the screen, but as I said, it’s a bit of a slow > process and doing a 3-finger swipe up to change to the next page is also a > hit and miss thing and often I have to try it 2 or 3 times before it works. > > Once I find a hotel I want to look at further, I can double tap on it and it > opens up a page with more details and that page once again is fully > accessible, responsive and works fine. Here I can Save the Hotel to my > Favourites and at the bottom is a button to go further into the room > selection if I decide I want o book the hotel. > > It just is the main listing of hotels that is sluggish and hard to navigate, > if Booking.com fixed this the app would be fantastic. Having said this, I > nonetheless booked all my hotels for my Thailand trip with the app and one of > the reasons why I like to use it is because it has Passbook integration. Once > the booking is completed, there is a Save to Passbook button and I find it > very convenient to have my hotel confirmations all together in Passbook. The > Booking.com prices are also good and they have a good rating system. If I > still want more assurance a hotel is good, I switch to the Trip Advisor app > and look it up there. > > I contacted Booking.com by phone at the beginning of April right before I > went on my holiday and one of their agents wrote down a detailed explanation > of the issues. There was an update just now, but of course this may have been > not enough notice for them to do anything about the problem. If anybody else > is using the app or wants to try it, it would of course help if Booking.com > received more requests to look at the accessibility of the app. I know a lot > of people on the list have mentioned travelling for business or pleasure and > I think this app is very useful for many of us, here some stats from the > About page of the app and the email to send in feedback about the app: > > • Best price guarantied. > •300,424 hotels in 181 countries > •41,000 destinations > •No booking fees > 19,850,000 individual guest reviews > 8,000,000 hotel photos > > Email for Feedback: [email protected] > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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