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17/05/2008, 8:25 tigerfeet Joined on 01/10/2007 Posts 95 Hotel booking Yesterday I tried to book a hotel in Calais that I like to use on my way back to the UK. I got in touch with them direct and they said they were full on the date I required. While looking for another hotel on one of the late booking sites I found the hotel I just mentioned , I checked availability and was able to book a room. How do hotels work , do they promise rooms to late booking sites ?    Report

17/05/2008, 8:27 Cathy Joined on 07/03/2006 Mostly near Bordeaux; Sometimes near Bristol Posts 1,688 Re: Hotel booking Perhaps they had a last minute cancellation?  That happened to me on Brittany Ferries once, for example. Cathy ----- Your children won't remember you ironing their pyjamas but they will remember you reading them a bedside story.    Report

17/05/2008, 8:49 Baz Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 992 Re: Hotel booking This is very common practise. The hotel booking companies are allocated a certain number of rooms and they are only released back to the hotel if they are not booked at the last minute. It is always a good idea if you try to book direct with a hotel and there are no rooms available to use a search engine to look at the hotel booking companies. Baz    Report

17/05/2008, 9:22 lizzy h Joined on 18/12/2004 Magnac laval Posts 172 Re: Hotel booking I use these types for bookings, they may have not updated there availability , if you get a booking from somewhere else ie your own website or by phone , you are meant to go and update or delete that room, or like the last poster said if it was more than one room you allocate rooms to the booking companies, liz x www.holidaybandb-limousin.com    Report

17/05/2008, 14:17 BJSLIV Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 2,396 Re: Hotel booking You may find it worthwhile to check with the hotel that you really have got a room for the night. Its not unknown for a late booking agency to accept bookings for a hotel which  already full.....    Report

17/05/2008, 16:46 tigerfeet Joined on 01/10/2007 Posts 95 Re: Hotel booking Thanks BJ , I will take a sleeping bag , just in case and thanks to all the other poster`s    Report

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