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Ho Ho Ho & a Room in that Hotel…

What is it that one wants when he is on a tour. A decent flight journey, a taxi at the airport, and yeah, finally, that place where he would be put up during his tour, the Hotel. It has earlier occurred to me, as to how one moved with nothing more than an unwarranted belief that he would find a room in a decent hotel, on reaching that place? Absurd it was as it sounded to me. On reaching the destination, one generally ends up agreeing to let the taxi guy do some hotel hunting for you. Eventually, he ends up showing you around the entire city, when the best you wanted to do was hit the sack after a tiring flight journey! Finally, you end up paying thrice of what you thought would’ve been the taxi fare, and hey, more surprises, your hotel room has a leaky faucet and the bed which squeaks when you climb onto it. The hotel rooms really form a chunk of one’s experience at a place.
Yesterday is history and so shall my above observations be! With the advent of the internet, things have radically changed. Every other hotel has signed up for the online hotel reservation plans, which ensures them , continued business, and the tourist, an assured comfort of his room, as he gets to know of the hotel and its facilities while booking his room online. Now, all one has to do is sign up at sites like these, and Bingo! You have got your flight, travel around the city, hotel… in short, an entire tour planned before hand. Not to forget the wads of cash one ends up saving. No more shelling out more on that taxi guy who took you for a ride. Hotel reservations on the internet have indeed become a boon to the tourist.

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