VisitLondon.com: A New Place to Score Hotel Deals?
VisitLondon.com, the web home of the capital city's visitor organization, has long offered links to events, sites, and whatever else tourists might find interesting. It developed the same way that most of these sites do, where a bunch of London companies got together to partner up and showcase the city.
We only recently discovered, though, that it has a pretty robust section on all kinds of deals, including an entire page turned over to scoring hotel bargains.
The main "Specials" page is loaded with links to shows, restaurants, and travel packages, with box office offerings marked down as much as 50%. Be careful though: the top of the page has what seem to be unmarked ads labeled as "Specials," where the links take you to the theaters' main booking sites. Which doesn't mean we don't appreciate being reminded that we can catch Peter Pan this Christmas at the insanely awesome O2. It's just that our wallet doesn't appreciate it.
The Hotel Deals has time-limited deals on hotels all over the city. The page again has ads that are captioned to seem like deals - "prices start from just" - but they're set off from the rest of the offers. The deals themselves certainly seem to be legitimate, though they're not spectacularly better than you could do on a Priceline-like site. The advantage here, of course, is that you get to choose exactly which hotel you'll be staying at.
If you don't find anything you like on the deals pages the site also has a built-in search engine for London packages, flights, and hotels. All of the features helpfully translate the price from pounds to dollars, which we would genuinely appreciate but for the part where it forcefully reminds us that the dollar is cratering and that we're not going anywhere.
[Photo: VisitLondon.com]
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