History of Hotelly- compare prices from different hotels

  Hotelly.com was founded in February 2000 and was purchased by Interactive Corporation in 2004. Original financing was obtained from Flagship Ventures, the Bollard Group and private investors. IAC spun off its travel group of businesses under the Expedia, Inc. name in August 2005. In July 2008, Hotelly.com bought Virtual tourist, a travel website with over 1 million registered members.

Hotelly.com operates nine other travel-related websites, including Virtual tourist, Cruise Critic, Seat guru and TravelPod.

Hotelly.com has been criticized for allowing reviews to be posted by anyone about any hotel, without needing supporting evidence. In response, they claim that all reviews are moderated by their staff, and they have algorithms to detect abuse. A Hotelly.com employee has also stated in the following thread on Hotelly.com that their employees investigate reviews that are reported as being fraudulent or suspicious but will only remove these reviews if they find evidence "that the author has committed fraud or otherwise abused [their] posting guidelines."

Hilton Hyde Park Review

Reviews by Karan ... "a winner Share and Earn"

Hi Friends,

This is Karan, I am staying at the Hilton Hyde Park than here for three nights at one more...
This is a standard couple room at the Hilton. A great deal, I guarantee for 99 ponds at Hotelly.
and the couple quick pluses and minuses about the hotel.

Plus is about the Hilton bed room's. you have every thing you need spaces, quart for one person or your wife, It's great.

Minus is charge you 15 ponds for internet every day, that's big for anybody like me and others all the time.

Big minus, actually switched room, if you have room that faces hype the main faces road street, It pretty noisy.
you wanna be quit, requested room at the back which is one faces and it is pretty. All right...

Thank you,

London: About the City, Climate, Hotels & Video Reviews

London is the capital and largest city of both the United Kingdom and of England, and the largest city in Western Europe. Situated on the River Thames in South-East England, Greater London has an official population of roughly 7.5 million people. London is historically one of the great, "world cities," and remains a global capital of culture, fashion, finance, politics and trade.

The City of London is one of the world's three largest financial centers (alongside New York and Tokyo) with a dominant role in several international financial markets, including cross-border bank lending, international bond issuance and trading, foreign-exchange trading, over-the-counter derivatives, fund management and foreign equities trading.

Dominated by the Canary Wharf complex, the Docklands area to the east of the City is the London's new financial and commercial hub. Other businesses locate in the City of Westminster, the home of the UK's national government and the well-known Westminster Abbey.

The West End is London's main entertainment and shopping district, and locations such as Oxford Street, Leicester Square, Covent Garden and Piccadilly Circus are main tourist attractions. The West London area is popular for fashionable and expensive residential areas such as Notting Hill, Knightsbridge and Chelsea.

The east of London contains the East End and East London. The East End is the area closest to the original Port of London, known for its high immigrant population.

Top London Attractions

Buckingham Palace: England’s most famous royal palace, and the official London residence of Queen Elizabeth II, opens the doors of its State Rooms to the public every summer.
 
Tower of London: With over 1000 years of royal history lurking within its highly fortified walls, a trip to the Tower of London is like being involved in one of the most spectacular dramas of all time. The Tower has been used as a prison, palace and place of execution, arsenal, mint and menagerie, since its construction following the Norman Conquest of 1066. 

Madame Tussuads and Chamber: In 1835, Marie Tussaud - former sculptor to the court of Louis XVI - established a sideshow of waxworks of famous contemporary and historical figures. Kylie, Posh, Becks, Brad Pitt, Blair, Bush, Beyonce and Wax replicas of many such famous personalities can be viewed. The studios where the wax creations are made are top secret and can never be visited. The only exceptions to this rule are the subjects who come to be modeled.

London Aquarium: London Aquarium is house to stingray, shark, starfish, gigantic conger eels, seahorse, octopus, jellyfish, crabs and flapping, four-eyed fish, and many such water animals.

Queens Gallery: Queens Gallery offers close-up view of some of the rare works of art from the Royal Collection which is one of the finest art collections in the world.

London Dungeon: If you foster an interest in the past, the London Dungeon is an excellent way of peeping into real history, horror and humor to bring gruesome goings-on back to life in the 21st century. Apart from the jaw-droopingly repulsively real animatronics and waxworks, complete with appropriately gruesome sound effects, there are also some (very much alive) costumed actors who are just dying to give you a fright.

Kensington Palace: The birthplace of Queen Victoria and home to Princess Diana between 1981-1997, now warmly welcomes public visitors. Relive the past while visiting the Victorian Rooms, looking at family portraits and original furnishings adorning the homely Queen’s Apartments, and strolling in Orangey and Sunken Garden.
    
Tower Bridge Exhibition: View London and its ever-changing skyline from one of the best vantage points in the city - 140ft above the Thames - on one of Tower Bridge's spectacular high walkways. 

St Paul's Cathedral: St Paul’s is the spiritual home of Great Britain, a fascinating store of British history and an architectural triumph all in one. The funerals of Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Winston Churchill were conducted inside these fortresses like walls, as was the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

Dali Universe: Melting clocks, Mae West’s lips, space elephants, snails and angels are just a few of the extraordinary works of Dali art on display in this stunning 30,000 square foot exhibition centre beautifully located in the old County Hall, part of London 's cultural hub along the South Bank.

Weather & Climate

Though has a reputation for being unsettled, London enjoys a dry and mild climate on average. Only one in three days on average will bring rain and often only for a short period. From June through to September average daily high temperatures peak at over 20C with July and August the warmest months at 23C while London's highest temperature since 2000 was recorded one August at 38C. This means London can feel hot and humid in the summer months. Winter days are rarely cold and frost is rather rare, and while sunshine is at a premium and wet days are more common, the average daily maximum is 8C in December and January, making London milder than most nearby continental European capital cities.

Where to stay in London

London is popularly known as a city of many villages. Europe's biggest city is divided into 33 boroughs each with their own feel and characteristics. The hotels in London may be categorized as:

- London Luxury Hotels
- London Business Hotels
- London Family Hotels
- London Theatreland Hotels
- Hotels by London Area

If you are planning a holiday in London, view video reviews of the some of the popular hotels in London before you decide on to book your room online. Here are some video reviews:

Sheraton Heathrow Hotel, London

Sheraton Skyline Hotel, Conference Centre, London

Renaissance Heathrow Hotel, London

Grange Rochester Hotel, London 

Portland Hotel, London

Purple Hotel London

Tiffanys Hotel

Lanayr Hotel

Britannia Bolton

Travelodge Manchester Central

Ifor Evans Hall Hotel, London

Parisienne Hotel

Travelodge Liverpool Docks

Premier Inn Blackpool East

Channins Hounslow Hotel, London

RateGain winner in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 India 2008 List

RateGain, a leading travel technology company, has been declared a winner in the second place in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 India Program list, a ranking of the fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the nation’s leading professional services organizations. Rankings are based on the percentage fiscal year revenue growth over three years from 2006–2008. It may be recalled that this award is in continuation of the first rank achieved by the company in the same program for 2007 i.e. last year.

RateGain's CEO Bhanu Chopra said “We are excited to receive this recognition second time in a row and it vindicates our stand that the niche area of online travel & hospitality that we serve has tremendous growth potential”.

“We look forward to making continued contributions to the industry through the introduction of new products like http://www.hotelly.com/Search/HomePage.aspx?aid=6, a one stop shop for the consumer to find the best deals, read user reviews and most importantly validate the hotel experience using user-generated videos.”
Companies from the Technology Fast 50 India program automatically qualify for participation in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2008 program, which annually recognizes the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Asia Pacific. Last year RateGain was ranked 16th in this program – it was the first Indian company ever to make it to the Top 20 in this ranking.

About RateGain
RateGain is a Travel Technology Company offering innovative and value-driven e-business solutions to the hospitality and travel industry. The customer portfolio includes top Online Travel Agents, Airline, Accommodation Wholesalers and Hotels. Its solutions are in the areas of Revenue Management, Distribution, Sales and Marketing. RateGain is one of the fastest growing companies in the travel technology industry and since inception; it has introduced products with innovative features that offer unparalleled benefits to its consumers. Since it began operations in April 2004, RateGain has been continuously innovating and launching new products like its latest offering http://www.hotelly.com/Search/HomePage.aspx?aid=6, a one stop shop for the consumer to find the best deals, read user reviews and most importantly validate the hotel experience using user-generated videos. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.rategain.com/

About Deloitte
Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, a Swiss Verein, its member firms, and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is an organization of member firms around the world devoted to excellence in providing professional services and advice, focused on client service through a global strategy executed locally in nearly 140 countries. With access to the deep intellectual capital of approximately 150,000 people worldwide, Deloitte delivers services in four professional areas—audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services—and serves more than 80 percent of the world’s largest companies, as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, locally important clients, and successful, fast-growing global companies. Services are not provided by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Verein, and, for regulatory and other reasons, certain member firms do not provide services in all four professional areas.

Hotel Reviews - Trust Video Reviews of Hotels

People often read hotel reviews posted on various websites before really booking them for their next holiday trip. But, what would you do if the hotel that got excellent reviews and you decided to check in turned out completely different from what you read online? The situation is not very uncommon and this is what happened with Peter D'costa of New Delhi, who trusted the hotel reviews he found at one of the popular online sites. After all, the site had declared those reviews of hotels, resorts and vacations unbiased and real, and he believed that they came from fellow travelers like him.

Reading reviews of Hotels before booking them for the next trip, seems to be a perfect idea. However, you need to be very cautious explains Vishal Jain, Manager at hotelly.com, a price comparison site that posts user reviews in form of videos, "It is very much possible that hoteliers, in order to ensure positive comments about their properties, encourage guests to post positive reviews to posting glowing reviews themselves under fictitious names."
It is, therefore, not surprising that Peter, after a disappointing stay at a London hotel that got glowing reviews, is having second thoughts about the authenticity of reviews at the site. He, now, suspects that some reviews he read might have been planted by hotel personnels looking to boost business.

Vishal says that it is wise to look and trust video more when looking for hotel reviws. When you view video reviews, you watch that is real and you trust. Travelers would shoot what they see; even hoteliers would avoid uploading unreal videos.

Hotelly.com, is a price comparison site that posts user reviews in form of videos. Visitors can research, watch video reviews and compare prices to establish the perfect holiday choice. Hotelly.com brings together all the resources of the web in one place and provides full financial protection for any item brought via the site at no extra cost. Hotelly.com provides independent and unbiased video tours, maps, descriptions and photography for all hotels, and a price comparison tool. The site has been developed to offer consumers a more rounded service bringing together user-generated reviews, video clips and price comparison.

Technology within the site includes a ValueFinder tool enabling customers to narrow down their search based on a number of criteria including price, location and star rating.

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