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Archive for July, 2008

Jul
15

As you know, VibeAgent is a hotel search engine. In our efforts to bring you the best hotel search experience available anywhere online, period, we’re happy to announce today the addition of two fantastic new partners to our site - LateRooms and GTA Hotels. Every time you conduct a search on VibeAgent, we go out and search the sites of each of our partners, and starting today, you’ll now be able to view rates and availability for all of the hotels from LateRooms and GTA Hotels on VibeAgent.com.

LateRooms.com is the UK’s leading online accommodation specialist, offering late availability deals in over 16,000 properties across the UK and Europe. Accommodation ranges from budget to luxury five star hotels, and savings of up to 70% off the normal room rate are common for a variety of independent and branded hotels.

Gtahotels.com enables travel consumers to book significantly discounted accommodation at more than 35,000 hotels in over 128 countries and 3,800 cities across Europe, Asia, Americas, Africa, the Middle East, the USA & Canada. GTA has helped over 1 million customers get the lowest hotel rates since 2000.

We’re very happy to be working with both of these fine partners and bringing their inventory directly to you, our loyal customers!

Jul
10

Today VibeAgent is relaunching its site as a Hotel Search Engine.

Our relaunch today is focused on making VibeAgent.com the #1 destination online to help you research and book a hotel room.

You’ll find the entire process of searching for a hotel room on our site greatly streamlined. We hope you’ll try it out and share this discovery with all your friends!

Entering Your Initial Search
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If you’re doing a non-dated search, simply enter your location and go! If you want to further refine your search results, you can enter dates, your desired vibe, rooms/guests, even the specific hotel you are looking for or the currency in which you’d like to see rates.

You’ll find the font size for the location field larger for your viewing pleasure, and we’ve also significantly sped up our autocomplete.

We believe our new and improved calendar is the best online, anywhere, period.
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Our double month view means you don’t have to scroll from month to month. You can even click on your check-in date, and then slide your mouse to your check-out date, making the date selection process super smooth. The calendar automatically closes after you’ve selected your check-out date.


Adding Your Hotel Vibe
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To help you find the perfect hotel for your needs, click the button “Add Tags” to select the ambience, activities, and the type of guests the hotel is known for. You can select as few or as many tags as you want - we’ll use your requests to help filter and order your search results.

Adding Your Desired Location
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Location is one of the most important criteria people use when making a hotel booking decision. VibeAgent’s unique location filter is the best in the business. For larger cities, you can choose to whittle down your search results to specific neighborhoods. You can also create a customized location filter - moving the borders of your search area wherever you want. You can even do this after you’ve gotten your initial search results and the search results will update in real time. Use this feature to narrow down your Manhattan hotel search, for example, to a specific city block.

Filtering Your Search Results
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VibeAgent provides robust filters to help you narrow down your hotel search results in real-time so you can be sure you’re looking at the best hotels for your needs. These include a price filter, a star rating filter, a loyalty program filter, and an amenity filter. Do you want to stay in a hotel between $150 and $180 that is in the Hilton chain and has a pool and free breakfast? No problem! Let VibeAgent’s filters help you narrow down your hotel options accordingly; simply use your mouse to adjust the slider bars or check the boxes and your results will update instantly.


Comparing Your Rate Options
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VibeAgent now parses the different room types that you can book, and shows you on the hotel’s room rates page the best rate for each room type in a summary view. Of course, to see other room rate options, you can expand each box by clicking on the “See all rates for this room type” link and the page will instantly expand to show you all of your available options. You can also filter this page by specific provider (e.g. Priceline or Hotels.com) if you only want to see rates from your favorite booking channel.

Navigating the Community Features
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Finally, we’ve streamlined the main navigation on VibeAgent so it’s easier to find what you’re looking for quickly. We hope you find the new and improved VibeAgent.com site makes it even easier to find great hotels at the best available rates, and we look forward to servicing all your future hotel searches!

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