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Bad Rate :: Venere Comes Up Short for Our Chocolate Fix

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March 27, 2007 at 11:36 AM | by Tim L. | 4 Comments

[Ed. Note: Welcome to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Rates quotes here were valid for the dates of April 7 to 9, 2007 and are subject to change. Enjoy.]

When booking a hotel overseas, often you'll find a better selection with a company in that region. Other times, you might as well stay with the home team. Venere.com is based in Europe, but they've been coming up short over and over for us lately. They had zero rooms available anywhere in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day and the screen shot above is for Brugge, Belgium the nights of April 7 and 9--during the Choco-Laté Festival.

In our Bad Rate feature, we usually show you where you'll get a bad deal for your money, but there's no worse deal than not being able to get a room at all, at any price. So you may want to skip Venere if you're trying to book a European room during a festival, holiday, or...high season anywhere.

Thankfully other sites still have hotels to choose from for the Choco-Laté Festival running April 6 to 10, including the one you access from the Choco-Laté Festival page at What's On When.

None of the deals strike us as particularly terrible since beggars can't be choosers at festival time, but we wouldn't relish the thought of driving 14 kilometers from the center just to stay at the Best Western Richmond-Thonnon, for $191 a night. Yes, it's at the beach, but a northern European beach in April is not very enticing. Plus strutting around in a bathing suit after gorging on chocolate for days on end isn't a pretty picture either.

Related Stories:
· Good Rate: Belgium's Choco-Laté Festival [HotelChatter]

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  1. markj

    HotelChatter

    Damn...

    ...but Venere.com has such pretty, pretty maps.
    March 27, 2007 at 11:42 AM
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  1. luciferbumps

    HotelChatter Member

    Re: Bad Rate :: Venere Comes Up Short

    Forget Venere they are but a bit player in Europe. Go with Booking.com they have more hotels listed at better rates(most of the time) They are now in the US too. One of the only sites that have a great inventory and you dont need to pay in advance in most cases.
    March 27, 2007 at 12:20 PM
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  1. luciferbumps

    HotelChatter Member

    Venere Comes Up Short

    Forget Venere, Booking.com has more hotels and often better prices, they are the European powerhouse.
    March 27, 2007 at 12:20 PM
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  1. siegert

    HotelChatter Member

    Bruges is the best

    Of all the cities in the world, Bruges is without a doubt one of the most romantic ones. In summer of 2005 me and my girlfriend were so astonished by the beauty of the city that I proposed in the room of our hotel in Bruges and decided to get married there that same week. Our luxury hotel in Bruges arranged everything, we didn't have to worry about a thing. This would have probably not been the case if we stayed in of the budget hotels in Bruges. I'll never forget my trip there, we are living happily ever after!
    January 20, 2009 at 9:44 AM
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