Track Hotel Price
:via Yapta
Track Hotel Price
Yapta.com, is a very cool online travel portal that has the ability to track airline ticket prices for travelers. Recently they have completely revamped their site and has added a hotel price tracking feature that will help travelers to monitor and compare pricing of over 110,000 national and international hotels & other accommodation services. Basically, Yapta lets travelers to choose a hotel that best suits their travel needs and then sign up to be automatically alerted if and when the price drops for a particular stay.
Yapta has included several useful features to help travelers track hotel prices. Firstly the new portal will collect the lowest published rate of a tracked hotel and will create a easy to understand graph that visually demonstrates the price of the hotel over a period of time. Users can also track multiple hotels from one screen and also compare different pricing & features. Alerts can be customized by drop in price or by the frequency of alerts received. And like many travel sites, users can search for hotels by filters, including star rating, price, and amenities.
Yapta previously focused only on airfare flight tracking, where you can track fares from most of the major domestic and international airlines. Similar to the hotel feature, Yapta allows users to select flights to track, and then be alerted when the price fluctuates. If the price declines after you purchase it, Yapta will help you get a refund or credit from airlines that have lowest guaranteed fare policies.
Basically the main functionality for Yapta is the tracking feature which is very useful and easy way to compare travel prices without the hassle of going to a number of different websites and monitoring the changes in price manually. Yapta started their portal last year and is steadily growing in popularity (the site now has 600,000 registered users compared to 350,000 users in June of 2008). This new feature should be appealing to anyone looking for a travel deal, which is basically the entire world right now.
