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I have a netbook with a 160GB hard drive that shows a good SMART report. No bad sectors. Throughput is very decent at 50mb/s, but for some reason it has a very slow - on average 26.4ms - seek time. I did all I could to help it, and nothing changed anything. The performance of the netbook was quite bad.
Then I stumbled upon the Ram Disk concept. The unit only has 1GB of RAM, so I set 160mb of it as the virtual drive, and then I mapped the Windows 7 (Starter) %Temp% and %TMP% environmental directories to it. I also mapped IE's temp folder to the ram disk.
The difference is amazing most of the time. Here's my concern. What is going to happen if Windows needs to do a big job - say, installing a large .NET file or a service pack, or defragging the hard drive - and the TEMP folder is not big enough? Is there provision for overflow?
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...if the page file is still set to windows managed, you should have no problem.
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A ha. That's sounds right. The unit still has a pressure valve. Do you think 160GB is about the right balance for %TEMP% and cache duties? Thanks for your insight.
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hmmm. That's pretty aggressive...
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How many tabs do you usually have open in a browser session? I show 215mb with 7 tabs...
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I'll be selling it, so I would have to set it up for plain vanilla use. They may well install a different browser that won't access the ram disk. This brings up a related issue - what does the browser do if it runs out of cache space?
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different browsers cache diff amts, ie uses 10% of the drive, then clears Expired, etc. as needed, depending on usage and cached sites you visit each session, its a user subjective kind of answer...
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Ok, thanks. I think I'll set up Chrome to cache there, as I have with Opera. I may up the limit a little too. Wish I could speed up the HDD, but this ram disk thing has a lot of potential, and was worth finding out about.
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What is going to happen if Windows needs to do a big job - say, installing a large .NET file or a service pack, or defragging the hard drive - and the TEMP folder is not big enough? Is there provision for overflow?
Be aware that the use of a RAMDisk will impair overall system performance. With only 1 GB total RAM the impairment could be serious.
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A woman from New York state who uses dance to help cheer her up while going through cancer treatment got the opportunity to talk to the singer of the band featured in her now-viral video.
Tiffany Staropoli, 39, was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in May, and decided not to let the illness bring her mood down if she could help it.
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Millions of working people find themselves working harder for less. We need to rebalance our economy.
David Arnold is a policy officer at UNISON
Last week's budget told you all you need to know about how the government see the prospects for future wage growth. It also provided a stark reminder of an ideological unwillingness to intervene in labour markets, even when they are going wrong and putting the economic recovery at risk.
The government's analysis rests on the proposition that pay and living standards can rise – but only in line with productivity, which the OBR forecasts to increase in both 2014 and 2015.
At one level, this orthodoxy makes sense. The more a worker produces in any given workplace using whatever skills, attributes, time and skills at their disposal, the more there will be left for wages, profits and reinvestment etc. But whilst this central proposition is right in important respects, it doesn't give you the full picture about what's going wrong with pay and why millions of working people always seem to find themselves working harder for less.
Three points help illustrate why we need new thinking.
First, theories about pay and productivity don't tell us anything about what's happening for the one in five who work in public services, an estimated one million of whom are now officially low paid, earning below the Living Wage.
Of course, productivity in public services has always been a contested issue, but it's now increasingly apparent that with record numbers of job cuts and ever higher demand for public services, many are working harder than ever – for less. After years of pay freezes and cuts, the average is £2,000 a year worse off since 2010. Recent announcements of derisory pay offers in local government and the NHS add insult to injury and put the sustainability of our public services at risk.
This is as true for those employed directly by the health service and local authorities, as it is for those delivering public services who are employed by private companies or the community and voluntary sector. In social care, those providing home visits are expected to see more patients, and to spend less time with each, and yet when travel time is taken out of their wages, many scarcely make the national minimum wage.
Vince Cable warned MPs recently that low productivity by social care workers and other sectors meant the National Minimum Wage could not be pushed higher and faster. Yet those workers in social care have never been more productive. It is the chaotic and fragmented nature of their industry which might be unproductive in Cable's terms, with many Councils contracting with hundreds of different providers and replicating administration, finance and other functions.
Secondly, distribution is too often missing from the debate about productivity and pay. As has been shown by a number of authors, since the 1970s we have seen a decrease in the share of our national productivity that goes to wages – and an increase in the share that goes to profits. In parallel the wage share has been distributed in an increasingly unfair way, with ever more going to the top and a smaller share for those on low to middle incomes. In the last two decades a bigger share of growth went to the top one per cent than the bottom half combined
Sure, this is partly about the jobs that the economy generates and how they are designed – and thus the wider debate about the range of policies needed to create more productive jobs. But its also about the political choices made about how our labour market works – the rules of the game, who wrote them and who they are designed to benefit most – not some theoretical model that guarantees fairer pay.
As Resolution Foundation pointed out, most advanced economies have large service sectors that generate lots of relatively low paid jobs. However, identical jobs in Britain pay less than they do in other countries.
'International comparisons show that jobs in these (service) sectors in the UK are designed to be lower paid than they are in other countries. In addition, Britain's personal service employees are paid less than in other countries even for carrying out identical tasks, for example in fast food restaurants.'
Thirdly, the current debate wilfully ignores important new thinking about wage led growth and the way in which fairer pay has to be the start point for inclusive, sustainable growth. It should not be something bolted onto the back of famously fickle productivity figures, especially as there are strong arguments to suggest that growth and productivity will be held back by higher levels of inequality. As the ILO argued, polarisation of income distribution and the decline in the wage share have played an important role in the generation of unbalanced and unequal growth. As such, they argue, it's now time to reconsider the validity of pro-capital distributional policies, and to examine the possibility of an alternative path, based on pro-labour distributional policies – e.g. more collective bargaining.
So what's got to happen? Driving up investment, skills and rebalancing the economy for the longer term is obviously important, especially for the longer term. But the squeeze on pay, the unfair way in which the national product is distributed and the cost of living crisis are problems for now. For most of us life at work is shaped by the choices made by politicians, their values and their sense, or lack of one, about the social contract. May 2015 can't be the living standards election unless there is a proper debate about making the labour market and pay fairer.Like this article? Sign up to Left Foot Forward's weekday email for the latest progressive news and comment - and support campaigning journalism by making a donation today.
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Assuming that the economy has some involuntary unemployment then there is room for public {infrastructure} investment.
"Infrastructure investment spending of the government will increase both the marginal product of labour and capital"
[New Keynesianism and Aggregate Economic Activity by Assar Lindbeck – Economic Journal, 108, 1998 pp167-80]
Increasing the mpl will enable higher wages to be paid?
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national decision. Don't talk to me about the money printing excesses of countries like Zimbabwe. Just because you cannot draw a line, it does not mean a line cannot be drawn. Ideally monetary policy should be the first line of defence against both slump and inflation. But with official policy interest rates down to ½ pc, there is not much more that can be done by conventional monetary policy; and tax cuts and public works may be necessary to put the money into circulation. (It goes without saying that in opposite conditions of inflationary pressure public sector surpluses would be required.) So far from being socialistic this analysis was developed in the 1930's and 40's by those who wanted to save the capitalist system. But, as always we are in danger of forgetting everything we have ever learned."
Keynes had the right idea?
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I always use booking. I think they've got more hotels listed and it's really easy to change or cancel. I like having all my reservations in one place.
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I use Booking and Venere . . . but mostly book directly w/ the hotels themselves. If you get a lower rate on one of the booking sites -- most hotels will match or better it.
Never book on the regular Priceline site - no bargains there. PL bidding side is good for some cities -- but terrible for others
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My error - I meant to write EXPEDIA - not Priceline.
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You'll probably find similar prices on Booking.com and Priceline.com (not with the "name your own price" option), as Priceline owns Booking.com .
But I have used Booking.com many times for Europe reservations and have been very satisfied with them. They usually have good cancellation policies - but it's important to read the fine print carefully about what the cancellation/change terms are. Occasionally the property books a non-refundable 1st night deposit or something even if the whole reservation is "refundable."
For Slovenia and Croatia, I found more "off the grid" places than in say Western Europe (though these days you find more of them on Booking.com). These are smaller places, not conventional hotels. It's common in this part of Europe for locals to rent out "Sobe" (private rooms) in areas without many conventional hotels, and I found it an excellent option in the areas I stayed. I found some of these places on hostel booking websites, even when they weren't technically "hostels" (they had private rooms with private bathrooms). "Private rooms" may not directly be in someone's house, either - they may be completely private. Depends on the situation.
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I do use booking.com a lot. But since many hotels have to pay them a premium, I often, if I am for sure going to be staying at a hotel, try to deal directly with the property.
Do read cancellation rates. Most of the time, booking.com offers free cancellations, but still, they are trapped by the policies of the property.
I know to be on my guard, but recently, I was in such a rush to land vacancies, that I made a mistake in my booking. In correcting it, I incurred a 200 Euro fee.
Luckily, when I called booking.com about the problem, they really worked hard to resolve the problem.
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I almost always use booking.com, but also check the lodging's own web-site and book that way when the rates are comparable for the same cancellation policy. But as Andrew noted, I found that a lot of places in Croatia and Slovenia aren't available through booking.com, so do consider doing a little more delving into your options.
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We have used Booking in about 10 countries, with only one minor problem. I do not trust the TA reviews as it been shown that some are plants both positive and negative and I think at least 50% of the people who respond don't know what they are talking about. A higher percentage when it comes to food.
Booking will send an e-mail for a review after you have stayed there, in an attempt to keep them honest. As far as I can tell the prices are all fairly similar except for those that are last minute cancellations. And I always check directly with the hotel to see if there are any bargains.
As noted above, our favorite hotel in Turkey came by a recommendation and is not available from any of the on-line services.
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I never use third party booking sites for anything other than to get a price to negotiate from.
I always book directly with the hotel. Here's why. Any third party site you use is going to get some of your money. The hotel pays them a percentage obviously. That means that between the hotel's bottom line on any give day and the price you find for that day on a third party site, there is a spread.
Let's say the hotel shows on a website as being regular $200 and on their site for $150. You see a bargain, I see a 20- 25% mark-up from the bottom line the hotel is willing to accept. The hotel wants $125 bottom line.
I call the hotel and ask for their lowest (NEVER ask for their 'best price' that has a specific meaning in the hotel trade) price. They quote me $150 and I respond that I can get that online. I was hoping for a bit lower price by calling them. In 90% plus of the time, you will then get offered $130 or so.
Anyone who believes that the lowest prices can be found online is playing right into the booking sites hands. Consider the logic of it. It makes absolutely no sense at all. How can every third party site say 'we find you the lowest price' and more than one at most be right? In fact, NONE get you the lowest price, you are paying a middle man on top of what the hotel is willing to accept. Where is the logic in that?
Don't want to believe me? I can see all those that book with third party sites getting all bent out of shape already and raring to tell me how wrong I am. Well maybe you will listen to the OTHER experts. Read here for Arthur Frommer's take and note he says, "say all the travel pundits".
Still not convinced? Here is what US News says, "Then check discount sites such as BookIt.com, Hotels.com or Booking.com, plus the named hotels at Hotwire and Priceline. If you find a hotel you like, check the hotel website before calling to see if you can find an even better deal directly from the hotel."
They go on to list it as their first of 13 tips.
WikiHow gives you step by step instructions which basically say, do this, this and this and then CALL the hotel.
Industry insiders (that's people who WORK in the hotel industry, not people who book through third party sites) will all tell you that in fact the later you book, no matter how you book, the better. Prices contrary to what many believe, always fall. For those who book online and think they get a better deal booking early, read here:
Note they tested ONLY online sites including the hotel's own online sites. They did not try phoning the hotel directly.
Still not convinced? Here's one more from USA Today. Their take? Check online and then book directly with the hotel. They throw in, try for an upgrade when you finally get to the hotel. http://traveltips.usatoday.com/better-price-hotels-2969.html
Third party sites are simply parasites trying to make money of a transaction that is really between you and the hotel. Cut them out and learn to negotiate directly with the hotel.
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I should have added that I also find that not booking at all but simply showing up at the reception desk gets the LOWEST prices of all. That statement will really upset some people.
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Sojourntraveller: I should have added that I also find that not booking at all but simply showing up at the reception desk gets the LOWEST prices of all. That statement will really upset some people.
Not in my experience - especially when the hotel I booked ahead of time winds up sold out by the time I check in.
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I tried to always book with the hotel or bed and breakfast directly by email or their website as I think it is a better deal for them financially and they may in turn offer you a better deal.
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Thing is, you have to SEARCH for a hotel before you can go to that hotel's website.
And I'd rather search on ONE website than repeatedly search on 200 separate individual hotel sites. I usually Booking.com, which I find very clear and I like the free cancellation as standard.
Then you can check with the hotel's own site if you like. But I cannot be fussed with emails to hotels asking them to 'match' third party rates. Why bother? Click and it's booked online at that rate at the third party site, then you can get on with something else...
But I also use an overall hotel price comparison site - www.hotelscombined.com (there's now also www.trivago.com) - this shows the rates for a given hotel from expedia, otel.com, hotels.com, booking.com, asiarooms, etc etc and the variation in prices can be significant.
Booked the most expensive hotel room ever last month, Le Meurice in Paris. Booking.com and most other sites including Le Meurice's own wanted £800, I got it for £600 by running a hotelscombined check.
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In the past, I've always dealt directly with the hotels, agriturismos, etc. but just started noticing all the booking sites coming up when I checked on TA.
I just booked an apt in the Modena, Italy area - contacted the owner directly, as I had a few questions. And I'll do the same with a "sobe" near the Plitvice Lakes, as I have read reviews on this site.
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. Man-in-seat-61, I'll check out hotelscombined.com. And Sojourntraveler, thanks for sending links to those article, which I will read.
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Andrew, while it is not unknown for a hotel to be sold out on a given date, particularly if there is some major event going on, one possibility does not mean it should be applied in all cases does it?
I can honestly only recall one occassion when I had a problem finding a room just by turning up. But if you have had it happen to you multiple times, I would find that unusual. I take it you don't buy lottery tickets on the assumption that your luck must really suck.
Pattyroth and Maninseat61, I specifically said CALL as in make a telephone call directly to the hotel. Not e-mail, not go to the hotel's own website and not call a hotel chains 1-800 central booking number.
Nor do I expect them to 'match' third party rates, I expect them to do better than match them as I think I clearly explained above.
Trivago by the way is a very misleading site. They check all the usual suspect third party sites and then re-direct you to their sites. Now you've added another middle man to the equation who wants a piece of your money.
Because the third party sites know Trivago lists by price, if you check some you will find that often extra costs are left out in order to get their listing at the top of Trivago's list. So one includes a hotel tax and the other doesn't which makes the other look lower when in fact it is not. It is only IF you go through and check each that you will find that out. For that reason, Trivago's supposed advantage in searching multiple sites for you is in fact null and void.
Using Skype to call a hotel directly cost pennies. Knowing I found Le Meurice for 600 online would tell me to look for a price around 5-550 when I phone. I KNOW they are paying the third party commission. I KNOW they can give me a lower price than any third party site will offer as a result of that.
I am about to make a short visit to Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Arriving on November 15 and departing on the 19th. I plan to stay at the Hampton Inn. I've checked online with a third party, the hotel's own site and the Hilton Honors site. Lowest price I found is $117 for the first 2 nights and $127 for the third night, plus tax. Total $395.
I just looked now at Hotelscombined (never looked at it before) they show their best offer is through hotelclub.com at $551. When I click through to the hotelclub site, they end up with $590.76 total. That is $195 more than I found already in 5 minutes. So much for their finding a better price.
I will not book a room, I will simply show up. The chances of a Hampton Inn in Red Deer, Alberta being full in mid-November are slim and none. My guess based on experience is that I will get the room for somewhere between $316 and $360 for the 4 nights. That's based on the hotel having to pay a 25% commission to the third party sites.
The most I will have to pay is the same $395 that I can get online today. If I do pay that much, I can almost guarantee I will get an upgrade to a suite or some additional perks like free movies, free minibar, double Hilton Honors points, late check-out.
Every hotel receptionist has the authority to negotiate. But you have to know how to tap that. For example, mention a 'special occassion' (make one up if you want, it's just an excuse to allow the hotel to save face. 'Oh we don't negotiate but we do like to give our guests a little something extra when it is a 'special occassion'.) Upgraded room, bottle of champagne, whatever.
Here is another well known reality. Bookings through third party sites are far more likely to get the room next to the ice machine or directly across the hall from the elevator. 'I'm sorry sir but that is our last available room, we have no other room we can switch you to.' Hotels don't actually like third party booking sites. I wonder why.
People who have booked online a lot have experience and can attest to booking online. But unless they have also done a lot of booking by phone directly with the hotel they cannot attest to that. Nor can they talk about just walking in the door if the do not make a habit of doing that.
The difference is that people who phone the hotel or walk-in the door can easily check online prices at any time beforehand to compare.
So my advice is simple. Find your best online price and then PHONE the hotel (I realize not everyone is confident enough to just show up at the reception desk on the day). You have nothing to lose by trying it other than 5 minutes and a few pennies to Skype. Tell them the price you have found online and ask if they can offer you something better.
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In the Czech Rep. and Croatia, I got great rates and rooms using Booking.
Elsewhere in Europe I've either stayed in apartments, B&Bs, or in a hotel room that comes as part of a transportation package and where I knowingly don't care much for the hotel (but do for its location) and use it only as a place to hang my hat at night.
Here in Canada I've got great rates and excellent rooms (suite upgrades even) using Hotwire and Priceline.
I've heard of positive results from Trivago but haven't needed to use it yet myself.
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I suspect it depends on the kind of lodging one wants. For example, I have a strong preference for small, local, atmospheric lodgings that are inexpensive, superbly located, and well-reviewed. These places are sometimes fully booked 4 or even 6 months in advance.
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SojournTraveler, lots of good tips. Thanks.
I have had the bad luck a couple of times recently of traveling in rural areas where nothing seemed to be happening and been wrong. I drove fifty miles more than I wanted late one night because every hotel in the area I wanted to stop was completely booked. The other time, the first hotel where I stopped was booked, and they directed me to another that still had two rooms. Both times, I wish I had booked ahead, would have willingly paid a bit more for the assurance of a place to rest.
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<<SojournTraveler, lots of good tips. Thanks.>> Good tips? It is a load of BS. The negotiating power of an individual is overstated, the understanding of 3rd party systems and ecommerce is flawed as is the understanding of the hotel industry, plus there is some downright bad advice.
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I almost always use booking.com now (sometimes Venere).
The site is easy to use, and cancellations are easy. Since they email you a few days after you stay in a hotel with a link to do a review, reviews are also easy so I think more people do them, making the reviews very reliable (If you have to work to do a review - find the property, etc - I think it more likely only very happy or very unhappy people post reviews).
The last time I had to cancel a reservation I made directly with a hotel it was a huge hassle to get the refund back, even had to involve Visa. With booking.com it's a breeze to cancel or change reservations.
This summer we stayed at several small properties with only a few rooms. My husband loves to chat up the hosts and more than one told us that now that they list with booking.com they are filled a much higher percentage of the time and therefore they have actually been able to lower their prices. They said the small amount they pay to list with booking.com is just part of doing business, like paying the electric bill.
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A lot of people have an opinion on something even when they have limited knowledge of the subject. Everyone is of course entitled to an opinion but it doesn't make them right.
I have provided links that say what I am saying, phone the hotel. Yet still, you get comments like those from Odin who says, 'It is a load of BS'. Well, where are your links to evidence that proves you are correct Odin? I provide evidence, you provide an opinion. They aren't equal.
Here is a link to an inside the industry website that confirms the 25% commission to third parties and the hotel industries growing dislike of third party booking sites.
Rather than just throwing out an opinion try using logic and common sense. That should tell you that if you add a third party to a transaction there is a cost involved. That cost is a 15-30% commission paid to the third party by the hotel. If you know the third party is asking for 100 from you then you know the most the hotel is going to get is 87 and perhaps as low as 77. That tells you how much room there is to negotiate.
If you aren't capable of negoatiating Odin that doesn't make my ability to negotiate 'overstated'.
Now try to provide a rebuttal of the LOGIC and FACTS Odin. Not just throw out, 'that's BS'.
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I'll say this for so-called "booking engines" and that is it doesn't help to check their offerings.
For our upcoming stay in Salzburg I had booked the best available room using the hotel's website. When I looked on Booking.com there was a much wider choice of rooms both more and less expensive than the one I had booked directly. So, I changed the booking since the "engine" still had inventory.
I've also done this both ways in the past, sometimes the engine offerings were "sold out" yet the hotel had inventory and vice versa.
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Sorry, meant to say that it doesn't hurt to check an engine's inventory.
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booking.com and the hotel site itself. However, good advice from Sojourntraveller above that I will try next time.
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Yes, there is some disparity of opinion, but I think there are a lot of things most of us can agree upon:
--Sometimes we can't get rooms via search engines and have to delve more deeply into places that might not even have a web presence
--Any hotel that uses a third-party web system gets charged for it, so if it seems good to deal with the hotel directly, then we should try that...
--but sometimes third-party sites act very well in our interests because of ease of booking (good when booking periods are tight or when our time to book something is tight); easy cancellations, expert employees who can intervene in the language of people at the desk, etc.
Let me just add that even though I don't always rely on it, booking.com has yet to screw me over. They have found inventory when a hotel's website inventory doesn't show and often they have given me better room descriptions than the hotel website offers.
I book no less than 40 hotel rooms for our personal travel per year, plus do around 80 bookings for business travel, so I've had plenty of time in which to be "done wrong."
I will also use other less known sites (One Travel found me rooms when everything was sold out; Otel gave me the deal of a lifetime in Prague), and I look at rooms and have booked often through The Oyster (http://www.oyster.com/).
I also belong to every possible hotel association (Accor/Marriott/Best Western/) so that I can upgrade easily if possible.
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For bookings in Dubrovnik and Korcula we have used Dubrovnik Apartment Source. They have the best listings of small, inexpensive, family owned and operated rooms, apartments and B&B's. Here is their website... http://www.dubrovnikapartmentsource.com/
In May and June, we now normally travel in June, reservations are a good idea. When we traveled in late September and October we found that negotiating for rooms and rates with people who approach you at the ferry ports and bus stations are the best way to go.
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I suggest the best deal is to google using the local name for hotel or B&B on the map page first, this often finds all those places that are great value but don't want to pay booking etc anything from their income
Then look at Google review and TripAdvisor.
Then book via tripadvisor but limit the external search engines so you don't duplicate up as many are just the same company with a different face. Booking and Hotel do it for me
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I've used booking and find it very useful and transparent, no payment till checkout (at least that is possible, depends on the type of rate you get). I thought Priceline was for bidding, not just booking a hotel. If they have added that, they are now competing with themself, I guess.
I use booking as it is easy to search and book. If I knew exactly where I wanted to stay beforehand, I'd just go to that website (although I might see if there was a discount on booking). Booking.com isn't cheating hotels, they sign up for it because it makes business sense for them, it's their business decision. And I've had a couple hotels refuse to give me the same rate as booking, they do have discounts on there that you cannot get directly.
I don't understand the above suggestion about using google to find the name of a hotel and how that will find you other great values. Of course, if you already know where you want to stay, just book it directly.
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Well I don't always want anything that are in the search criteria of Booking et al. Or I know the area well enough to want to be a particular street. After all position, position, position.
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On Priceline, you can book their "discounted" rate for a particular hotel or bid to try for something cheaper, but with no guarantee of a particular hotel, only the guarantee that it will be within a certain area.
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Dhristina, Booking.com only charge the hotels 15% commission instead of the usual 20-30% commission. That is why their price is often lower than others, they are adding less on top than the others.
One reason why they add less on is they do not collect the money as most third party booking sites do. So they have a lower overhead. Instead, they let the hotel collect the money from you and then pay them their 15% out of that money. See the difference? One business model has an added overhead cost the other does not.
That makes your comment re paying at check-out from the hotel amusing. It isn't something Booking does to convenience you, it is something they do to YOU and the hotel to convenience themselves.
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I've used booking many times in Europe and in the States. I've booked, cancelled, rebooked etc... and it's easy to do. When I went to the States this last spring, I booked two hotels in several cities and decided almost at the last moment which hotel I wanted (and cancelled the second one).
I always crosscheck the reviews with as many other sites as possible. Maybe this is extra work but I have made fewer mistakes.
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Again, I think we are in somewhat of agreement...
We do trust booking.com for ease of use.
Most of us do not rely on it as our total informational source (eg; I can't think of any time where I did not at the very least do a Trip Advisor read, too), and...
Many of us are willing to negotiate directly with a specific hotel, even once we've consulting booking.com.
But darn, when I have to book 8 properties for a 15-day stay within 48 hours , you better believe I like to have this search and booking engine as my main resource, especially if I've been able to get free cancellation bookings that give me a lot more flexibility as I take the trip.
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Another fan of booking.com here. We have used them extensively in the US, Mexico and Europe. The one time there was a problem (we had cancelled a room within the stated cancellation period but the hotel charged us for one night saying we had not cancelled), booking was very fast and easy to work with to get the problem resolved. I have also used their related site called villas.com one time which is good if you are looking for properties with kitchen or for larger groups.
I agree that negotiating with hotels directly is a good idea and I have done that, but many times that works best if you are willing to go with a rate that can't be canceled, and many times I am willing to pay for the flexibility of being able to do that.
Another pet peeve of mine is that I do not like to pay for the room upfront when I book-which is another reason I prefer booking.com over some of the other aggregation sites that require you to do that.
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Yesterday I was trying to find a way to get into our more "usual" hotel during an upcoming stay in Munich. The hotel's website indicated on availability yet at least one "engine" out there had a room available. That service wanted to charge about $40 for me to reserve using a Visa card and there was no way i was gonna do that.
Finally, I actually e-mailed the hotel directly and they responded with a room offer and I booked it that way. I'm glad I didn't give up despite what the hotel's website indicated.
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"But darn, when I have to book 8 properties for a 15-day stay within 48 hours"
Ummm, presumably that was business travel Alessandro. At least I hope it was. I am not talking about business travel at all. I am only talking about leisure travel and I rarely book anything ahead for that.
The basic question to me is do third party booking sites ever have cheaper prices than you can get by PHONING the hotel directly. My answer is an empathatic NO based on experience having checked to find the answer to that question.
If you want to book ahead and lock yourself in to a given itinerary etc. then that is up to you. But if you think you get better deals by booking ahead through a third party site, then you are wrong. The hotel will always be able to match or beat the price a third party site offers you regardless of when you book.
I never get 'no cancellation' prices jpie and I never pay up front. Why would I when I speak to the hotel directly? What advantage do you think a third party site would have to offer in that regard? You are comparing one third party site to another third party site. That to me is not the question as I just said. It is third party vs. direct with the hotel that matters.
Dukey1, again, PHONING gets the best answer. What's with e-mailing, this is 2014. You can Skype for pennies.
I don't know why it is that so many people seem to want to ignore actual evidence that booking direct with the hotel is cheaper and talk about things that don't even apply to booking directly. People should be reading this thread and saying, 'sh*t, why am I paying commission to a third party when I could pay less directly to the hotel?'
Read this link (particularly point #4) and then scroll down to this comment:
"jamoja, bruges, Belgium, 1 month ago
As a receptionist, my advbice is : If you want to pay less for your room, you better book directly with the hotel. Tell them you are used to book with online reservationservices and if you can get a reduction if you book directly. The discountsites do ask a high percentage commision from the hotels, (can be up to 45%!) you would be suprised how little income lasts at the end. They will be happy that they do not have to pay the comission it and you will get the reduction, win-win situation. Booking.com is also very popular with costumers but they also charge about 15 % commison,the hotel I work in does give the 15 % reduction directly to the client if he mentions to book with Booking normally."
When you have hotel staff telling you they give the 15% commission to someone who PHONES them and that booking through a third party gets you a poorer room, what more do you need to know?
Use the internet to learn how the hotel industry works rather than using it to pay third party parasites a commission on your hotel room.
Read these tips (particularly #2 &3):
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From now on I'm phoning.
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Sojourntraveller--never say never. Not Europe, but last summer we wanted to stay at Caneel Bay on St. John. The hotel would not match the price we got on Expedia. And when we got to the hotel, they had upgraded our room even though we had booked through Expedia.
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"Dukey1, again, PHONING gets the best answer. What's with e-mailing, this is 2014. You can Skype for pennies."
Excuse ME, but in this case do you think "phoning" would have gotten a "better" answer which was I needed one double room and that's what I got. And I got it IN WRITING.
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I referenced a link above, "Read this link (particularly point #4)", but did not post the link. Apologies. Here is the link I was referencing.
Digbydog, assuming you mean that you phoned the hotel and they said they would not match the rate, then ask yourself why you got the upgrade on arrival. Was it because you booked through Expedia or because you phoned the hotel? Think about it. Do you think if you had not asked the hotel to match Expedia and had just shown up on your Expedia reservation, that you would have got the upgrade? I think not. It was contacting the hotel that got you the upgrade.
Sometimes, a hotel will not match a price or undercut it. It's all about face saving and precedent setting. Front Desk is told to basically say, 'our price is our price, we do not bargain with people'. I suggest that is what you encountered. But the hotel then put a note on your reservation and voila, an upgrade on arrival. You sure didn't get an upgrade because they were thrilled you booked through Expedia.
Dukey, you got the double ROOM you wanted, but perhaps you could have got a better PRICE by phoning. As for a written confirmation, if you make a phone reservation, you invariably get a confirmation number and can ask to have an e-mail confirmation if you wish. E-mailing instead of phoning has NO advantage. Phoning instead of e-mailing MAY get you more.
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Here is another link on the subject of phoning the hotel directly. http://lifehacker.com/5968099/call-local-hotels-directly-and-negotiate-room-rates-for-lower-prices
What is most interesting about that link is the number of comments below the article, by people who work in hotels and who are confirming the advantage that phoning can have.
You will see ONE comment by someone saying they are not allowed to match the third party prices Digbydog. You will see quite a few saying they can beat the third party price.
There are some obvious common sense caveats. If it's a busy resort area or downtown in a major city then they are less likely to open to negotiation but even then, upgrades and freebies can often be had. It isn't guaranteed that you will do better but it is guaranteed you won't end up doing worse and MAY do better. All it takes is a phone call to find out.
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Sojourntraveller--we did not get the upgrade because I called. I did not give my name when I asked them to match Expedia. What I noticed is that the hotel's prices went up as we got closer to the arrival date, but Expedia's prices stayed the same. What I generally do is compare everything and see what has the best price.
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The reason that the OP finds similar rates/policies for Priceline, Booking and Travelocity is because they are all part of the same business group. This group also includes Active Hotels, Kayak, Agoda and more.
The other main group is headed by Expedia and includes Hotels.com Hotwire.com, Trivago, Venere, Lastminute.com, Travelscape and Tripadvisor.
These very powerful groups control the online booking business, leaving hotels with little choice, meet their demands or go it alone.
Booking direct with hotels gives them a chance to get some or all of the 15% which can be used to improve services, wages etc.
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I also got an incredible deal from Otel.com for a gorgeous hotel in Prague. I look at Booking and Hotels.com for their reviews as they are real ones, but I have rarely booked through them and NEVER for flights since if there is a problem then not dealing with the airline directly is a royal pain.
BTW-I think sojourn has some great advice.
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Methinks the problem in this discussion is that some people tend to preach their way or the highway.
My experiences - I only take the ones connected with leisure travel - support either argument in this discussion.
In one hotel (in Butte, MT of all places) I just showed up in the late afternoon w/o any reservation and the front desk had no "bargaining power" at all. Their rate was say $20 more than whatever booking engine had to offer. What the front desk clerk did in that case was to let me use their wi-fi in the lobby. I used my phone to get that same room at $20 less, and a minute later the front desk had my reservation in their system.
In other cases, I found no availability going directly to the hotel's website - but still rooms available on booking or trivago. In other cases it was vice versa.
Other booking engines like HRS have certain promotions for using a mobile device. Especially in larger cities you often find a "mobile special" with a substantial discount of 20-30% compared to HRS's desktop website.
Many hotels and hotel chains, like the one in Geneva next month, now take part in booking engines but you often get perks for using their own website (e.g. waive costs for wi-fi, have breakfast included, get a pass for free public transport, etc.). Or their own special rates like 30 day advance or 3 for 2 nights give you a better total than any discount rate from 3rd party sites.
So there is no one true gospel IME but you have to check out all options.
But as some PP mentioned, I am not that power shopper that gets a kick out of saving another €5 by going this way or that way and usually I stay in moderately priced places for leisure travel.
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All true sometimes Cowboy1968. There is no one answer that is guaranteed to be the best every time. What I go on however are the odds. I don't want to check everything for every single night to save $5 as you say. What I have found however is that phoning or walking in the door works best MORE of the time than using a third party site does.
Even in your Butte example, in fact walking in the door still got you the best price even though you had to go online and book through the third party site.
I play the 'odds' and all evidence points to phoning or walking in being the best 'bet' MOST of the time.
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Mushers lead sled dogs on long-distance races. They have to endure freezing temperatures, avoid hostile predators, cross treacherous environments and navigate through hundreds of miles of open Alaskan wilderness. Do you have what it takes to be a musher and lead a team of sled dogs to victory? Take this quiz to find out.
You're organizing your team before the race. Where do you put your two best sled dogs?
Put them in the very back so they can keep an eye on all the other dogs.
Put them in the middle of the team so their influence can be felt by everyone.
Put them in the front. They're called "lead dogs" for a reason!
The race just started, but you already see that one of your competitors is having trouble. It looks like one of her dogs got tangled up in a tow line and is being strangled. What do you do?
Stop your dogs, hop off your sled and help free her dog.
Winning is what's important here -- hope for the best and keep moving!
Call out to her that you'll alert a vet or race official at the next checkpoint.
Back on the trail, you keep racing until night has fallen. It's very cold, but neither you nor your dogs are tired. Should you continue racing in the dark?
Absolutely not! Pitch a tent and wait for daylight to get moving again. No one is crazy enough to race at night.
Keep moving, but slow down. It's dark and cold, and you can't see. You can keep going for a little while, but do so at a leisurely walking pace.
Yes. You're a responsible competitor, and if you want to mush at night, you'll mush at night!
You see a large horned moose up ahead, and your dogs want to avoid it. What should you do?
Forge ahead. You have a team of burly sled dogs, and you're not such a bad fighter yourself. That moose will just have to move.
Go around the long way. It's better to be safe than sorry.
Keep your distance, and yell or throw snowballs at the moose to scare it away.
After another day of hard travel, you reach the next checkpoint. What's the No. 1 thing you should before going to sleep?
Examine all of your dogs' feet to make sure there are no cuts or bruises, then apply ointment as necessary.
Nothing. Your top priority is getting a few winks, so you should immediately curl up and go to bed.
Assess your supplies. If you're running low on food or other supplies, notify race officials.
You stop for a short break after racing for several hours straight. You're starving, so what do you eat?
Reach for chips, candy and anything else that gives you a quick rush.
Opt for fruits and veggies -- mushers need their vitamins.
Choose dense, high-energy foods, like nuts and jerky.
You and your team are racing down a frozen river. Suddenly, your team slows down. What do you do?
Pick up the pace. You've got a race to win, and you can't stop whenever the dogs want to sniff around.
Investigate the situation. If your dogs stopped or slowed down, there's probably a good reason. You should always trust your animals' instincts.
Stop and take a break. They're probably tired and need the rest, and you wouldn't mind taking a power nap yourself.
A few miles from the finish line, one of your dogs sprains his foot. How do you proceed?
Put your injured dog on your sled, and keep racing.
Examine his paw, and if it seems like a minor injury, keep him running.
Disconnect the injured dog from the rest of the team and keep going. He'll probably find help.
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I once crossed paths with a most peculiar woman at a gathering. I can't really tell what she was, but she had the look of a gypsy witch shaman. With her she had an apprentice and a helper. I never spoke directly with her, but I did get the chance to study her.
As I did so I saw her vanish into thin air and then she would reappear somewhere else entirely. Her vanishing would go fast, as the blink of an eye. It was really strange and it took me a long time to understand how she did it. This is how.
We all usually have signifiers in our appearance, things that make us stand out. It can be our big red hair, a special scarf, odd sneakers, colourful details on our clothing or a way of walking. Often we have several such signifiers. When we look for someone in a crowd we are actually looking for their signifiers and if we can't find their signifiers we assume they are not there.
The woman I was watching was both skilful and clever. Her outfit had several signifiers that were easy to notice, but what I came to understand was that they were also easy to hide. With a few quick moves she would cover her signifiers, assume another body posture, a little limp and as it would appear – vanish into thin air.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009; B01
In response to a report released Monday on the HIV/AIDS crisis in the District, city officials say they plan to develop a new and improved public awareness campaign. Such efforts will no doubt take time and involve focus groups and require lots of data and even more money.
A person could contract AIDS and be dead by then.
Perhaps I can help get the campaign going based on what we already know, starting with black women, who represent more than one-quarter of HIV cases in the District. Most of them -- about 58 percent -- have been infected through heterosexual sex.
I propose a TV public service announcement that goes something like this: You see a man holding a gun to a woman's head and pulling the trigger while professing his love for her.
Voiceover: "Is that any different from what a 'down-low brother' does when he has unprotected sex with other men, then comes home and has sex with his unwitting wife?"
As a rule of thumb, marketing strategists told me, it is best to emphasize the positive -- say, remind the man of how good it feels to provide for and protect his family -- instead of denigrating him for immoral behavior.
So I tweaked my ending.
Voiceover: "Women, protect yourself. Men, it's bad enough being a liar and cheat, but don't go so low as to become a murderer, too."
(If you have a better message, please let me know.)
Asked in a telephone interview what she thought of my PSA, former surgeon general Joycelyn Elders said, "That would get my attention."
And isn't that what public awareness is all about?
In releasing the first report on the AIDS epidemic in 2007, city officials laid out an action agenda calling for a "modern response" to a "modern epidemic." Two years later, little has changed except the name of the problem -- which city officials now refer to as a "generalized and severe epidemic," and just in case you don't know the difference between the two, the latter involves infection rates "higher than West Africa."
In other words, be afraid, D.C. Be very afraid.
"You and I could go today from one end of the city to other and back again by different routes and not see a single HIV prevention message," D.C. Council member Jim Graham told me. "Why? Because there aren't the resources for those types of things."
Not even a billboard. Gone are the "silence equals death" signs put up by ACT UP, the AIDS activist group that kept the issue in your face back in the '80s and '90s. You haven't seen that AIDS memorial quilt spread out on the Mall in quite a while, either. Red AIDS ribbons seemed to have faded to pink as breast cancer became the illness du jour.
"If AIDS was an insect, it would be a cicada," Philip Pannell, a longtime Washington AIDS activist, told me. "AIDS is a cyclical issue, comes around every few years or so, makes some noise, then disappears until the next go-round. Every time an AIDS report comes out, Mayor Fenty talks about a wakeup call. But all we do is hit the snooze button."
Meanwhile, the disease itself continues to incubate and spread in manners we have not yet even acknowledged. Look at the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia. As of 2007, there were 1,037 cases per 100,000 residents reported in the District, compared with a national rate of 370. We're talking about mostly black teenage girls and young women. With STDs such as chlamydia known to weaken the immune system and make HIV infection more likely, this epidemic is but an indicator of how vulnerable the population really is.
I'd put Elders to work on PSAs for hip-hop radio stations immediately. Let her teach junior high school students about the ABCD's of STD prevention -- the same ones that got her drummed out of the Clinton administration: A) Abstinence is unrealistic; B) Be faithful to your partner; C) Condoms do work; D) Do other things.
Student: "What other things, Dr. Elders?"
Elders: ["The M-word."]
Voiceover: "Nobody ever caught AIDS from themselves."
Hey, don't go squeamish on me now -- not with 3 percent of the District population walking around radioactive. Culturally inappropriate, you say? Not in a culture where sex has become a weapon of mass destruction.
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