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Paris 2024 Olympics: a success for everyone except the tourism industry?
The Paris 2024 Olympics are undeniably a success and will mark the history of the games in different ways, and no one today will dare say that they weren't a real success despite the legitimate concerns that preceded them....
Customer experience: is the hotel industry heading for disaster?
Customers seem to be less and less satisfied with chain hotels, a problem that's nothing new, but one that's unlikely to improve, since its cause lies in the relationship between hoteliers and chains...and in the latter's lack of courage.
Customers...
The hotels’ limitless creativity in inventing fees that will increase the price of your room
Hotels often add mandatory extras that you were not informed of to the price of your room to increase the cost of your stay. If some of them have, unfortunately, become commonplace, other very surprising ones show the creativity...
Marriott acquires City Express and starts a new journey in the Economy segment
Marriott International, the world's leading hotel chain with more than 1.4 million hotel rooms worldwide, announced on May 1, 2023 the acquisition of a new chain, City Express, creating the 31st brand in the Marriott portfolio. While such acquisitions...
Flights, Hotels: The post-COVID premium bubble is coming to an end
As you know, travel is our passion at TravelGuys.
So we constantly monitor prices to our favorite destinations, but also from our favorite origins. And this, to anticipate our next vacations or our next Business trips.
And the conclusion is clear:...
Paid check-in upgrades: what’s left for loyal Hilton Honors guests?
As of last week Hiltons hotels are proposing Gold and Diamond members of the Hilton Honor program paid upgrades when checking in online. A very bad news for them which confirms the bad turn that Hilton Honors takes.
Paid upgrades...
No way to work in a hotel room anymore? When hotels get it wrong.
Even if it is far from being systematic, there is a phenomenon that we have noticed for a few years and which is not necessarily to our liking: it sometimes becomes difficult to work properly in a hotel, for...
Is the crisis going to burst your vacation budget for summer 2022?
The Ukrainian crisis is already having a real impact on our daily lives, and there's no reason to believe that things will improve in the medium term. One of the consequences of this is the fear that many people...
ALoft Birmingham Eastside: Superb value for money
To round off our trip, we stayed one night at the Aloft Birmingham Eastside, located near the center of England's second city.
As a reminder, here is the itinerary followed:
Booking
We made our reservation at this hotel almost a month before...