Originally Posted by
iahphx
It does seem pretty obvious to me that the main thing booking.com "brings to the table" is online, immediate booking of smaller hotels. Like if I'm looking for a room in a small town in Germany, booking.com might have 2 dozen listings (often for smaller, less expensive hotels) and other websites might have 3 or 4.
Yes they do list out tons of small guest houses in Germany, but when you look into the details a lot of them don't take credit card. They take EC (German payment card) or cash - they are very primitive privately owned hotel. Put it this way I'll never book those place even though Mr. Nacho speaks German.