28 May 2015
From the increased popularity of different online booking services, it's getting difficult for hoteliers to choose the right place to register a property and get more bookings. It's obvious that better to use the service which any other hoteliers use and which always brings bookings and doesn't matter at which cost. The risk to pay high commission and get lost in the thousands of the similar hotels doesn't stop hoteliers. Of course, hotel manager wants to get bookings directly from its own website and save money on third parties, but the leader of the industry dictates the rules.
RoomAuction.com stands out from other travel agencies with its different concept of booking a room. It definitely can be named as a direct booking service. Hotels always have a chance to decide whether to accept the offer or decline. But if you don't like the idea to have a full control of all your bookings, then read further and find out other reasons why you shouldn't use RoomAuction.com for your business.
Losing your peace of mind. Being a hotelier, you might be appreciate a lazy morning - no guests at your hotel, no morning rush, no need to serve breakfast, checkout people and clean 'departure' rooms. With RoomAuction.com used for selling rooms those lazy mornings may be over. Why bother then?
Losing your morning coffee while updating another OTA's control panel. Unfortunately, RoomAuction.com does not require frequent updates of their availability, rates or other details from its hotel members. You would certainly lose those additional 15 minutes per day during which you could lock up in the back office drinking your coffee while updating another control panel for another OTA.
The joy of room allocation – just gone! All hoteliers just adore the ability to allocate their rooms to various OTA's. The fact that the majority of those room allocations do NOT turn into actual bookings, doesn't really matter. That proud moment, when you can say 'sorry we are full' to your guest (read: all rooms are allocated) is so precious, that no one would like to give it away. That is another reason why you should not use RoomAuction.com. They don't want you to allocate rooms for them.
No longer being comfortably hidden among competitors. The leader in the market, booking.com, as well as other 'top' OTA's give you the unique opportunity to have your hotel hidden among your local competitors. Since there are at least 1000 hotels within the radius of X miles from your hotel and all of them are listed on 'top' OTA's, you can sit comfortably doing nothing and gaining very little awareness. With RoomAuction.com you'd be missing yet another feature like being one of the very few hotels in the area, and therefore being able to gain far more exposure than at the 'top' online travel agent websites. Who would want that?
Get ready to Sunday night arrivals. Boleslaw Drapella, the CEO of RoomAuction.com adds - „Surely during a lazy (=empty) Sunday, after sorting out your Saturday departures you'd rather sit and relax with a copy of The Sunday Times and read an article in it about the unique idea of RoomAuction.com that has been already used by 15.000 people who generated bookings valued more than 2.500.000 GBP with best hotels gaining over 25.000 GBP in bookings per year. You'd rather sit and enjoy the peaceful, quiet and empty bedrooms of your property. After all, they also need to have a day off, don't they? With RoomAuction.com there is a serious risk that instead of reading the paper you'd need to get ready for your Sunday night arrivals. Who on earth would like that?”
If the above reasons NOT to use RoomAuction.com don't scare you, then you should join a system praised by the Sunday Times and used by many hotels worldwide.
for more details: Ms Irina Potapenko, cs@roomauction.com, phone: +44 333 0118044
