HotelTonight

HotelTonight adds new destinations in France, Italy Spain and Mexico

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:09:00 GMT

Source: www.mobile-ent.biz --- Friday, May 17, 2013
Hotel booking app HotelTonight has recently added a raft of new destination to its international roster of cities, including locations in France, Italy Spain and Mexico. The new additions take the total reach of the app to 12 countries and 100 destinations across the globe. To tie in with the peak travel season in Europe, HotelTonight is adding popular European destinations, including Lille, Lyon, and Marseille in France; Barcelona, Madrid, and Malaga/Costa del Sol in Spain and Florence, Rome and Milan in Italy. The app is also offering its five million-plus global users new destinations in Ireland and Mexico, as well as adding Brighton to its list of best UK hotel deals. The firm’s international expansion comes as part of its pledge to be ubiquitous and accessible to all last minute travellers and follows last week’s global announcement of new features. These included ‘Snap Your Stay’, which allows customers to photograph and share images of their hotel with friends and other HotelTonight users, and the ‘HT Price Guarantee’, which guarantees its rates against competitors' offerings. HotelTonight is now partnering with almost 2,500 hotels internationally in the ‘hip’, ‘luxe’, ‘charming’ and ‘solid’ categories. Hotels include the five star First Luxury Hotel in Rome, the Palazzo Vecchietti in Florence, the Kempinski Hotel Bahia Estepona on the Costa del Sol and the Music Hotel in Marseille. Further to these new destinations, the ...

HotelTonight launches a more visual take on hotel reviews

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:01:18 GMT

Source: hotelmarketing.com --- Thursday, May 09, 2013
The new feature is called Snap Your Stay, and it asks HotelTonight users to take six different photos during their stay - one each of the bed, bathroom, view, lobby and exterior, plus a “cool find” of their choice. You can adjust the lighting in a photo, and there are new filters. ...

HotelTonight – Last Minute Deals on Hotels Launches "Snap Your Stay" To Solicite Photos From Guests

Thu, 09 May 2013 04:07:37 GMT

Source: solsie.com --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
The last minute hotel booking service HotelTonight offers a convenient way to make your last minute travel arrangement in the US and Europe with unsold rooms at great discount with an i OS and an Android app. The latest version on the iPhone, introduces a new feature that lets hotel guests snap photos and share from their stay including their social networks. The crowd sourced photos can be found on Info tab of a hotel’s profile tab along with photos provided by the hotel. The app prompting guests to complete a series of images of the hotel bed, bathroom, view, lobby and exterior, plus another ‘find’ of their choice. Photos can be enhanced with a number of filters. [Via TNW ] Technorati Tags: Snap Your Stay , Hotel Booking , last minutes , HotelTonight ...

Discount booking app HotelTonight adds photo review feature

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:31:46 GMT

Source: www.digitaltrends.com --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
HotelTonight, the last-minute discount hotel booking app, is introducing a new photo-centric way for users to review properties. The feature, available only on iPhone and iPod Touch currently, should roll out onto the iPad and Android devices in the future. ...

Discount booking app HotelTonight adds photo review feature (Digital Trends)

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:31:46 GMT

Source: labs.ebuzzing.com --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
HotelTonight, the last-minute discount hotel booking app, is introducing a new photo-centric way for users to review properties. The feature, available only on iPhone and iPod Touch currently, should roll out onto the iPad and Android devices in the future. Source : Digital Trends ...

HotelTonight adds photo-taking feature

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:24:39 GMT

Source: pandodaily.com --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
HotelTonight has added a photo-taking feature to its last-minute hotel booking app, encouraging users to take pictures of their hotel rooms to “share their experiences” and, in the future, “introduce photo scavenger hunts,” AllThingsD reports. Because there’s nothing that could possibly go wrong with scavenger hunts in hotel rooms. [Source: AllThingsD ] ...

Attack on the clones: HotelTonight launches review tool, plots strategy

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:00:59 GMT

Source: www.tnooz.com --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
HotelTonight is aiming to outrun its copycat competitors with an iPhone app upgrade called Snap Your Stay, which encourages users to take photos of their hotel rooms. The San Francisco-based company describes Snap Your Stay as a reinvention of the hotel review. That may strike some skeptics as hyperbole. It’s just another bell and whistle, right? HotelTonight insists that this new feature represents a truly an important innovation for the industry. But are little UX tweaks enough to keep HotelTonight ahead of copycat rivals? Can HotelTonight scale? For answers to these questions, Tnooz spoke by phone with CEO Sam Shank : What’s the 30-second pitch for the Snap Your Stay function? We wanted to apply the UGC [user-generated content] model to mobile. It’s impractical to write a 200-word review on your phone. But snapping a picture is easy. We’ve further simplified the process of uploading photos to only about 20 keystrokes — much much less than trying to write a review or check boxes. If a customer is debating between two hotels to pick, quickly scanning photos of each hotel is a fast way to make a decision. Obviously, looking at photos is a favorite use for phones already. I’ve been thinking about hotel reviews on and off for about nine years, including a long stint at TravelPost . So it’s satisfying to reach this point. How does Snap Your Stay demonstrate your company’s mobile-first approach to product design? Besides games, the m ...

HotelTonight ‘reinvents hotel reviews’ with new photo-sharing feature

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:00:37 GMT

Source: venturebeat.com --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale When you find yourself without a place to stay, HotelTonight helps you find one. Today, the last-minute hotel booking app released an update that seeks to give customers added confidence in their booking, as well as convenience. ‘Snap Your Stay’ is a new review feature where customers can post personal photographs from their stay. Once at the hotel, visitors open the app and are prompted to take a series of photos of the bed, bathroom, view, lobby etc… Once completed, the photos can be edited within the app itself, which even contains light filters (so you won’t need to open Instagram). The images are shareable on social media and will be available as part of the hotel’s profile in the app. Popular travel sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor are based on user-generated reviews that are [in theory] less biased than branded content. All the hotels on HotelTonight are currently profiled with custom photography. Snap Your Stay will add a layer of accountability and engagement by allowing customers to share what the experience was really like. “It’s clear that people are excited about sharing information to help other travelers make informed decisions about where to stay,” said founder and CEO Sam Shanks to VentureBeat. “With this new release, HotelTonight has reinvented the hotel review for the mobile age. We’ve taken something that is typically very time-intensive and done afte ...

HotelTonight challenges guests to assist with marketing campaigns

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:00:00 GMT

Source: www.mobile-ent.biz --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Former ME App Of The Day HotelTonight prides itself on being a mobile-only service, and has raised more than $35 million in funding since launching in 2011. The last minute bookings service recently added social media functions with location-based services and the option to like and rate hotels , and now introduces photo-sharing feature 'Snap Your Stay' . It allows users to take pictures of their hotel and share them on the app to offer HT users a transparent look at the venue – beyond stock shots – while creating a sense of community. It also acts as an extra marketing channel for hotel brands and chains, and means the businesses will want to ensure guests have the best possible stay lest they receive detrimental image-based reviews. Snap Your Stay prompts users to take pictures of the bed, bathroom, view, lobby and exterior, and an interesting spot of their choice. Users can add filters and play with editing tools, while the creations can also be shared directly to Facebook and Twitter. As an added incentive, bookers will receive $5 for completed photo challenges, and $10 for those that make it to the hotel profile. Snap Your Stay debuts on iPhone and iPod Touch, with release due for iPad and Android soon. Meanwhile, the newly added HT Price Guarantee promises to beat the rates offered by rival services. Should it fail to do so, the booker will receive credits equal to the price difference. Sam Shank, co-founder and CEO, HotelT ...

With ‘Snap Your Stay,' HotelTonight Launches A More Visual (And Less Review-y) Take On Hotel Reviews

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:59:53 GMT

Source: techcrunch.com --- Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Before he co-founded last-minute, hotel-booking startup HotelTonight , one of CEO Sam Shank’s previous companies was the hotel review site TravelPost. And today, he’s launching what he said is a reinvention of the hotel review, optimized for mobile phones. “What makes mobile different is mobile’s with you all the time,” Shank said. “With hotel reviews, you’re sort of summarizing your stay. It’s text-oriented. But on mobile, the primary input device is the camera. It’s more photo-based.” The new feature is called Snap Your Stay, and it asks HotelTonight users to take six different photos during their stay — one each of the bed, bathroom, view, lobby and exterior, plus a “cool find” of their choice. You can adjust the lighting in a photo, and there are new filters. The photos can be shared on Facebook or Twitter, and they’ll also show up on a hotel’s profile page in the app, sorted by things like the type of image (so that you don’t end up with six pictures in a row of beds) and whether other users liked the photo. And the app will also start featuring a page with recent popular photos. Shank argued that Share Your Stay allows users to capture their experience during their stay (as opposed to trying to remember it afterwards), and to do it in a quick, convenient fashion — he noted that you can take and upload all six photos with just 20 taps, whereas writing a review would take “thousands.” (Put another way: Typing out an in-depth ...