Travel News - Hotel chains launch reservation site

Hotel chains launch reservation site

...Travelweb--whose debut was initially expected earlier this year--will soon offer searches within price ranges, a feature common to many rival sites, Hyden said. It will start advertising at the end of summer, he added.

Travelweb's ranking technology sets the site apart, heavily weighting prime screen space toward the hoteliers offering the biggest discounts to their list prices, Hyden said....

http://news.com.com/2100-1019_3-1018863.html?tag=lh

I reviewed it by searching for a couple of cities I'm visiting later this month.

There is only minimal functionality of refining the search results into number of stars. Did not see an option to request non-smoking rooms, etc.

There is no way to sort the list by price, by location, or by name.

If you are price-conscious, only the first few hotels listed showed a price. There were more hotels on the list without a price, and you would spend ages looking up each one.

Of the hotels I already booked on other sites, they all came in at the same price or cheaper than travelweb.com. No big savings here.

Upshot - I didn't find this a very useful site. It does not stand apart from the plethora of accommodation web sites already available.

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Latitudes.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

Orbitz take II?

FWIW:

Wary After a Slump, Hotels Keep Prices Down

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/travel/06rep.html