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It's only useful to find all accommodations that still have room for the period you wanna go, then just look up the website or contact info of the accommodations themselves and hopefully you can book directly with them. Some even give a discount because they don't have to pay the commission to booking.com that way.
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I use expedia, interestingly though the expedia group also owns booking.com and trivago to name but a few. Also booking direct with the hotel is not cheaper in my experience, i check every time. plus i got some compo off of expedia cos a hotel showed a pool on its images, but the pool was in the next doors hotel. I doubt i would have got compo from the hotel itself.
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
What only relying on JavaScript for HTML form input validation looks like
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
I just used booking.com and good fucking god is the whole website a shit infested hell hole. They use scammiest and pushiest techniques to make you book a place asap without giving you space to breathe and read details.
They try to obfuscate what's actually necessary with what they want to take from you. For example just before reserving a room there's a checkbox that's close enough to words "terms and conditions" and "privacy policy" for unsuspecting user to habitually check it to proceed. However, you clicking "reserve" is considered your consent and that checkbox simply adds your email to their spamming list.
There are countless examples of absolute asshole design within every inch of that place and I don't even want to imagine what they do with my data.
Suffice to say this was the first and last time I will use their services and if I were to give any advice, is "don't be the dick responsible for website/app/service similar to booking.com"
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