Topic: Google Maps Tests Integrated Hotel Price Listings

[sam]

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/22/google-maps-hotels/

If you’ve ever tried using the web to book a vacation, there’s a good chance you found yourself juggling a half-dozen tabs at once: a couple for hotel review sites, a booking engine or two, and, finally, a Google Map to figure out where exactly all these places are actually located. Today, Google has announced that it’s experimenting with making this a bit easier, by including hotel prices alongside their Google Maps listings.

[Clive]

That will be very handy if it's rolled out to all of us.

[Simon]

The last time I stayed in a hotel was probably 25 years ago, but I can see that could have it's uses.

[Rik]

I somehow don't think Google is doing this for altruistic reasons. ':|

[Simon]

Does it ever?

[Rik]

No.

[sam]

still though a handy resource! Anything has to be better than the current offerings. They are ok but really hard to tell where they are quickly.

[Camstop]

Trip advisor is the best thing for hotel info.

I'm sure they have a google map link too.

[sam]

I guess they do.. still it would be handy if all in google.