B & B
November 6th 2007 19:42
My wife and I spent some time last night and another hour or more this morning trying to arrange a bed and breakfast place to stay at for the end of the week. What a job. Sometimes the Internet makes such tasks even more complex because there’s so much choice.
You’d think it would be easy: you set yourself a price limit, you choose a location or area, and set the dates – and away you go.
Don’t believe it. Nothing is simple on the Net. The places you think might be suitable don’t have online access; or rather, you have to email them (or, gulp!, phone them), and this is a surprise in a day when it seems that every hotel in the land is on the Net.
We emailed two places, and naturally we didn’t get a reply till this morning, by which time we’d already booked somewhere else – a place we had to phone, as it happened. (It was the most suitable in terms of price and location).
It’s very hard for the smaller hotels and bed and breakfast places, I imagine, to get sufficient profile on the Net. I don’t know whether they have to pay a commission to portal sites that advertise them and give them focus, but I’d be surprised if they don’t.
And some places are much better advertised than others. There’s no rhyme or reason to this, however; some seemingly small hotels have just as much space on the Net as bigger ones, while others are barely visible.
If ever the lesson that things aren’t fair in this world was to be learned, the Net is the place to learn it!
You’d think it would be easy: you set yourself a price limit, you choose a location or area, and set the dates – and away you go.
Don’t believe it. Nothing is simple on the Net. The places you think might be suitable don’t have online access; or rather, you have to email them (or, gulp!, phone them), and this is a surprise in a day when it seems that every hotel in the land is on the Net.
We emailed two places, and naturally we didn’t get a reply till this morning, by which time we’d already booked somewhere else – a place we had to phone, as it happened. (It was the most suitable in terms of price and location).
It’s very hard for the smaller hotels and bed and breakfast places, I imagine, to get sufficient profile on the Net. I don’t know whether they have to pay a commission to portal sites that advertise them and give them focus, but I’d be surprised if they don’t.
And some places are much better advertised than others. There’s no rhyme or reason to this, however; some seemingly small hotels have just as much space on the Net as bigger ones, while others are barely visible.
If ever the lesson that things aren’t fair in this world was to be learned, the Net is the place to learn it!
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