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March 8 - International Women's Day - Special Hotel Deals Still Available from Select-a-room.com
A romantic weekend away is still possible with Select-a-room.com for March 8th, International Women's Day, the European equivalent of Valentine's Day! Great hotel deals are available for the weekend of 6-8 March, although you will need to take Monday 8th off work ! Perfect getaway hotels available at unbelievable prices! Instant booking, free night offers and lowest online prices - check for details in your chosen destination.
Happy New Year!
We wish all of our customers a very Happy and Prosperous New Year - great hotel deals worldwide now live online from Select-a-room.com for all dates in 2010 !
Hotel Prices With No Hidden Extras - Transparent Prices from Select-a-room.com !
All of our hotel prices worldwide specifiy inclusions at time of booking. We receive many comments from customers expecting "additional booking fees" , "service fees" or "taxes" - but we do not levy ANY additional charges apart from those shown on the page ! We thought it best to mention this as clients express surprise that our prices are so low! The prices are real, accurate and we always honour them! What you see is what you pay.
Hotel Reviews on Select-a-room.com
We add hotel reviews to out hotel pages from customers who have actually STAYED in the hotel. On other sites, third parties often add reviews with a personal interest (eg a competing hotel may add a negative review on a competitor's property - or a hotel owner adding a positive review of his own hotel). This is designed to give you direct feedback from guests' own experience. We hope it helps you to make your choice of hotels! Welcome to Select-a-room.com !
Exclusive Hotel Deals Worldwide from Select-a-room.com !
Our great range of hotels and strong buying power enables us to contract many hotels at recession-busting prices - including FREE NIGHT offers in many hotels, free transfers and free meals in certain hotels!
Hotels in many parts of the world control their own inventory - ensuring you have instant availability in a wide range of hotels to choose from! Great new hotel deals from Select-a-room.com ! Prices are being updated daily by thousands of hotels worldwide to give up to the minute instant availability and best available rates!
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Hotel Price Inclusions - Now Added to Search Pages on www.Select-a-room.com
We have been asked by a number of clients to make the inclusions clearer when clients are booking. The inclusions for each hotel and for each category of room has always featured by the price button - but it is now also shown on the search listings under each room category. We listen to and welcome any suggestions for improving search results - so please give us your feedback if you think there is anything we can improve. We are confident that our prices are second to none - and we want to have the service to match!
Our listings now show the status of breakfast and tax - and also where additional meals are included in the price.
Select-a-room.com Joins Twitter
Welcome to the new Select-a-room.com Twitter - keeping you up to date on what we are up to minute by minute! Great hotel deals worldwide, hot-off-the press special offers and much more. Join up and follow us! Travel info online.
FREE NIGHT Hotel Offers Now Online for Sofia Hotels, Bulgaria
We are pleased to present our new offers for hotels in Sofia, Bulgaria for summer 2009 - all rates reduced and we have introduced 3 nights for the price of 2 special offers - see site for full details! Offers valid 1 July to 13 September 2009. Check out: 5 Star ARENA DI SERDICA Hotel and 4 Star PALACE BOUTIQUE Hotel for best value!
Stop Press: Welcome to our New Travel Forums for Travel Advice Worldwide!
We are pleased to announce that we have developed our new Online Travel Forums for visitors to our discount hotel websites - the Travel Forums are is designed to allow you to ask general travel questions about our destinations, and for other members of the forum and our administrators to reply in order to enhance your planning and preparation for travel. We are pleased to receive any comments or suggestions that you may have to improve the forum and hope you find it useful. You are welcome to start new forums for different regions - or simply review questions and comments posted by others. To participate, you need to register - but to review, no registration is needed. Any questions - simply email us at info@select-a-room.com ! We hope that this will be helpful for particularly complex destinations where visas are needed or for travel to particular events where hotels are very busy.
New Lower Hotel Prices Worldwide for 2009 - All Destinations!
Our contracts teams and local offices are currently negotiating special rates throughout the world to help ease the pressure on travellers' budgets! We are loading up special offers and deals in all locations - check the site for the ltest special offers for hotels worldwide. As soon as special rates are offered, they go straight onto the site and are booked very quickly. Note: destinations in Russia and Ukraine are falling particularly quickly due to the fall in the value of the local currency in relation to US Dollar, Euro and Sterling - Moscow apartments are DOWN by 20% in many cases - so these destinations are offering better value than for many years. The Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia are ovvering a lot of FREE NIGHT offers along with Prague and Budapest - and cities in South America are simply reducing prices. Hotels in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff also offer great value to European and US visitors to the UK. With falling travel costs, there's no better time to find a bargain hotel break!
Great Weekend Deals in 5 Star Hotel Anel, Sofia, Bulgaria
The superb HOTEL ANEL 5*, Sofia is now available with weekend prices starting at €93 per night including breakfast and tax. Special prices apply until end February 2009!
Pablo Picasso Exhibition in National Gallery of Foreign Art in Sofia, Bulgaria
The National Gallery of Foreign Art in Sofia will host a Pablo Picasso exhibition from December 17, 2008 to March 15, 2009. The unique venue will present 86 masterpieces from the blue, rose, cubism, surrealism periods and photographs of the great painter. Dont miss it!
Specialist Travel Sites (Like Ours!) Showing Big gains in Public Support!
Hitwise - a leading analyser of leading websites advises that October has seen sharp falls in people searching for large, impersonal travel sites such as The travel sites included in the top ten for October included Expedia, Lastminute.com, Thomson, Thomas Cook, First Choice, Travelsupermarket, Cheapflights, Travelrepublic, Skyscanner and Ebookers with clients switching to specialist sites such as ours!
"Another reason for the overall fall could be a general shift by consumers to other sites. The boss of one leading travel site said consumers could be moving to specialist sites “thinking they get a better service and deals”.
As a small specialist site, we wholeheartedly agree - we offer great service, dedicated and knowledgeable staff who know and "live" the product! We have teams in UK, Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic states witrh detailed specialist knowledge, along with dedicated agents in South America, India and beyond who are second to none, supporting our clients with 24 hour support, advice and guidance! Book with Selet-a-room.com and join the stampede to the specialist hotel booking sites!!
BMI Airlines Abolishes Fuel Surcharges from Heathrow!
BMI airlines has announced that it has abolished all flight surcharges for all its flights to and from London Heathrow! Great news for our travellers worldwide and good to see that the era of high oil prices has moved on and flights are more affordable for all. Thank you BMI for passing on these surcharges - time to press ALL airlines to push for lower prices.
Winter Tourism to Bulgaria on the Rise
The number of foreign tourists who visited the Bulgarian winter resorts in January and February of 2008 has gone up 23,4% compared to the same months of 2007. Bulgaria's total revenue from tourism in these months was EUR 97,8 M, which is 19% more than in the same period of 2007.
The news was announced by the Chair of the Bulgarian State Agency for Tourism Aneliya Krushkova on Wednesday. Krushkova presented data from a poll about the winter vacation in Bulgaria. The poll results show that 78% of all foreign tourists, who visit Bulgaria, were ready to recommend it as a tourist destination.
