Sorry, Brian, I had a hectic morning, usually I would probably have posted the link and an explanation without the comments, thanks for not being offended.
One thing to keep in mind is that when you search for an app it is always a good idea to type in whatever you think it is you are looking for and then to double tap "Search" at the bottom right of the keyboard. As you type in letters, there is a constantly changing list which displays results, but I find that sometimes you get no results that way but as soon as you double tap on Search you do get results in the picker box which is located one swipe to the left of the Featured tab which in turn is at the very bottom left of the screen. One example for this is "Tap Tap See", type it in like this with spaces and you get no results in the list right underneath he search field, but tap on Search and it shows up as the first search result. Yes, my experience contacting Booking.com was very good and they were very good at communicating with me and in getting this fixed, it was just 1 month from when I first contacted them until the fixed app was released. There are other apps which also allow you to book hotels and which are accessible like Kayak or Expedia, but I like the fact that Booking.com has the integration with Passbook which none of the others do and also the prices on Booking.com are usually quite good and from what I have seen at least as good as everybody elses. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Miller Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Booking.com Update with Voiceover improvement - fantastic!!! Thanks -- I know it seems like an obvious question, but often I read of an app and it isn't there when I go to the store, or I lack the exact search term to get the right app, as there are so many. This is why I like to have the exact info before I start poking around. Thanks also for taking the time to work with the app developers, this is very encouraging. Brian M _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 2:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Booking.com Update with Voiceover improvement - fantastic!!! Hi Brian and Jeff, Sorry if this sounds somewhat sarcastic, but since I painstakingly explained how I contacted Booking.com, how they offer over 300,000 hotels through their service and how well they responded and fixed the app where "app" is the important word, yes, this is an app that is available in the app store. If you had gone to the App Store on your phone and typed Booking.com in the search field, it would have been your first result. I just timed myself doing this and it took me about 30 seconds from unlocking my phone to loading the app store and doing the search. The search result says: Booking.com, hotel reservations for 310,000 + Hotels You could also have gone to Google and typed in "Booking.com on iTunes", that search including clicking on the App Store link was less than 10 seconds. OK, I really do apologize for not simply saying "Sorry, I should have provided the app description, the fact it is free along with a link and tutorial on how to use it, but sometimes it really would be nice if people actually did just a small bit of work themselves. Anyhow, here is the app store link, but I won't paste the description here, you can read it by following the link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/booking.com-hotel-reservations/id367003839?m t=8 Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Miller Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Booking.com Update with Voiceover improvement - fantastic!!! Hi, So is this app available in the Apple App store? If so, what is it called? Do I just look for "booking.com?" Thanks, Brian M _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Pelletier Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Booking.com Update with Voiceover improvement - fantastic!!! Hi all, I downloaded this app after hearing about here. It simply is fantastic. I will certainly send my comments to the developpers as to how well it works with Voice Over. Ron & Danvers Falling down is part of LIFE... Getting back up is LIVING... Read Bria and McKenna's account of their cruise to the Panama Canal at: http://www.chrisandron.com"; From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Les Kriegler Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 7:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Booking.com Update with Voiceover improvement - fantastic!!! hi Sieghard, Thanks for communicating with this developer. Yes, this app is outstanding now. We are planning a trip for next January, and I expect we will use this app to book our hotels. And yes, the list generated from a search is totally accessible. Les On Jun 17, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, A while back I posted my very positive experience contacting <http://Booking.com> Booking.com who offer over 300,000 hotels via their website and app. I wrote to them and mentioned that the app worked well, but that the search results list was almost unuseable with Voiceover since it was extremely sluggish, you couldn't flick through the list of results and touching the screen in different places did work, but it was sluggish and often unreliable and repeated a lot of information. I initially contacted them about a month ago, in Mid May. I received a prompt reply that my feedback would be passed on to their development team. About a week later the same person reported that the development team would look into this and again a week or 10 days later (about 2 weeks ago) the same person again send me a message without me asking saying that improvements had been made and would be available in the upcoming update. The update took a while, but this morning it was in the app store and I downloaded it right away and did a search for hotels in Vancouver. I am very happy to say that now the list of search results works perfectly, it is fast and you can right flick through the list, Voiceover reads the hotel name and the starting price of the room rates it found for the date you entered. You can then double tap on a hotel, often there is more information given and even in the prior version, once you got to that point actually making a reservation was no problem. <http://Booking.com> Booking.com does also work with Passbook and I find this very handy since after I make a booking I can add it to Passbook and when I get to the hotel I can, if necessary, just pull up the booking confirmation. This is another example of a large company being very responsive and I hope everybody who travels on a regular bases for pleasure or business and who needs to make hotel reservations will give the <http://Booking.com> Booking.com app a try and hopefully take a few minutes to give them a good rating with a comment that they are a happy Voiceover user of the app. Regards, Sieghard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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