Booking a holiday can be a wonderful process or it can be an incredibly stressful process. Sometimes you find your dream accommodation at a dream price at the drop of a hat and sometimes it takes weeks of mad google searching and hunting before you can find even one remotely appropriate. A relative with three children was planning a holiday and had so much trouble finding a place to accommodate her family of five that her Google search had to go something along the lines of, “where the (profanity that we won’t retype) does a family of five stay in KL” before finding a solution.
But luckily, there will be no need for profanities in Google searching thanks to a new feature from the ever reliable Trip Advisor. “Just For You” is the new service extension on the Trip Advisor website and app that will help you to find personalised accommodation without arduous searching.
When you search for hotels in a specific destination, you can select travel preferences like location, price, class, room type, preferred services and facilities. Trip Advisor will now grab this data about your travel preferences and will use it to offer personalised hotels without having to enter a new search every single time.
Senior Vice-President, Global Product, Adam Medros has said, “With the new feature, we can not only match a traveller with their preferred type of hotel, but we can suggest the trendy, boutique hotel located downtown with a swimming pool because we know those are the specific hotel characteristics you like.”
We expect that this will take the hassle and profanities out of holiday planning and will help us all to have holidays that we really, really enjoy.
Will you start using the Just For You app when holiday planning? What funny travel planning stories can you share with us tonight?