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Would You Post Your Latest Hotel Deal to Facebook? Yapta Hopes You Will

October 2, 2009 at 1:01 PM | by | Comments (0)

Apparently someone at Yapta heard that Orbitz has a Facebook application and, over the strong advice of Hotelchatter sister site Jaunted, decided that they had to have a Facebook presence too.

The Yapta tool, like the Orbitz application, allows you to grab your travel deals on their site and then push them to your Facebook stream. We're frustrated by this kind of social media nonsense for the same reason we remain skeptical of hotel iPhone applications: nobody uses those things for that.

Your average traveler books flight or hotel deals for themselves and their families. Occasionally - occasionally - they'll be traveling with a friend and they'll swap confirmation emails so everyone's on the same page. But it's difficult to imagine a context where people would share financial and travel details with their network. (Unless you are want people to know what you consider to be too much for a hotel room.) There are very real privacy concerns since most people's networks are littered with people they met at parties, college classmates they never got around to unfriending, and the like.

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Yapta.com Launches a Literal 'Room Rate Drop Watch'

March 23, 2009 at 12:57 PM | by | Comments (0)

Airfares have any number of price-tracking engines, such as Kayak Buzz and Airfare Watchdog, but for far too long people seeking discounted room rates have had to play guessing games or the click-to-refresh shuffle with hotel booking websites. From the airfare-tracking pack emerges Yapta.com, which has just added a fresh feature onto their hotel search: the "track price drops" button.

Similar to the Kayak Buzz system of airfare change notifications, Yapta asks you to subscribe with an email address, choose your dates and preferred hotels using filters like star rating and hotel brand, and it will track price drops and history over thirty days, which you can access in the "My Trips" area of the website—as opposed to receiving numerous annoying emails. Or, if you're particularly keen on sniping a killer rate at a certain property, then you choose to be alerted when the price drops by more than $20, or even more hopefully.

Just keep in mind that the system has just launched, so don't be surprised if when you're searching for the price history on New York's Hotel Gansevoort, that it's a little sparse; now each day will bring you closer to both booking the trendy hotels and gossiping about them.

[Image: Yapta.com]

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