Booking.com still misleading holidaymakers with ‘1 room left’ claims
Booking.com is still giving a false impression of hotel availability to rush consumers into making a booking, Which? Travel has found. Our snapshot research repeatedly found that ‘only 1 room left on our site’ prompts didn’t ring true when clicking through to the booking page.
Best hotel booking websites revealed
Little known Travelzoo saw off industry giants to be crowned the best hotel booking site in a survey by Which? Travel. The membership-only site, which is free to join, outperformed its better-established rivals Booking.com and Hotels.com with an overall score of 80%. The surprise result also saw another big player, Lastminute.com, left languishing at the bottom of the table with a mediocre 61%.
Hotel booking sites told to come clean on discounts and deals
Hotel booking sites must change the way they rank and sell rooms, the UK’s competition watchdog has said. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has written to some online hotel...
Crack down on ‘misleading’ hotel prices
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into dodgy deals on hotel booking sites. It announced today that some sites are providing information which could ‘mislead people,...