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The new app from trivago.co.uk for iPad allows users to compare the prices of hotels at home and on the road. The system is unique among iPad applications, because although there are many apps from booking agencies that list hotels, none until now has allowed real-time price comparisons and room availability, as offered by over 53 booking partners such as LateRooms, LastMinute.com, Booking.com, Expedia.co.uk, Venere, Fastbooking, and many others.
The new iPad app joins the other already released apps for iPhone and Android, which have given millions of users the ability to access trivago’s price comparison service. The hotel price comparison exists in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian, and is available as a free download at: http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/id407769167?mt=8
The ability to compare in real time between different online booking sites is the principal purpose of trivago, ever since its foundation in 2005. With the new iPad application, not only can users search and compare among over 500,000 hotels worldwide, but they can also search for the hotels closest to their actual location, thanks to the geolocation system. This makes it an indispensable tool for frequent travellers and in emergency situations.
Using the trivago iPad app:
Hotel searches can be made according to the user’s current location, or for a particular city or region. Additional filters can further refine the initial results, such as:
- Maximum price
- Distance in miles or kilometres from the city centre or other key locations and attractions
- Star category
- Hotel ratings and rankings, as determined by the reviews made by users of trivago and partner sites
- Additional factors such as availability of Wi-Fi, swimming pools, spa facilities, and dozens of other hotel and room features.
Users can then view information for each hotel in the resulting list. Additional information is made available, including:
- The lowest offer for a room in that hotel from each booking site.
- Whether breakfast is included or not, what cancellation policies apply
- Hotel contact information: website, telephone number, address
- User reviews.
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