{"id":110647,"date":"2024-02-29T12:18:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T11:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travmagazine.nl\/column-boeeeeking-com\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T14:12:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T13:12:51","slug":"column-boeeeeking-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travmagazine.nl\/en\/column-boeeeeking-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Column: Boeeeeking.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And Lady Justice&#8217;s hammer struck (again) the other day. Booking.com is a travel company, not an IT company. I don&#8217;t know which argument was decisive with the judge, but I think he tried to fix a hotel himself.  <strong>Deal  <\/strong>  Because suppose you are planning a room around a large event. Ad\u00e8le in Munich or the Venice Carnival. I did that myself last year around a World Cup rugby match in Lille and for later this year for a women&#8217;s water polo match at the Olympic Games in Paris. I searched and found a place to sleep just above market (in normal times), but during mega-events a good deal. Two nights 300 euros. And the same thing happened twice. A few weeks after the booking, it was cancelled. I called, because I thought it was strange that the room was back online for about 800 euros. And sure enough: Booking.com reverted it and would reprimand the owner for not doing it again. A little over a month later, the booking was cancelled again. Anyway, customer service. \u2018<em>Yes, excuse me, we contacted the owner and he forgot to pass on a previous booking and that takes precedence&#8217;<\/em>. I stammered that I found it strange that a tech multinational with more than 15,000 employees doesn&#8217;t have all of that online in real-time. But it was really the owner&#8217;s fault. I also said that I understood that you can charge extortionate prices during the Games, but if for some reason you didn&#8217;t do that (it was about two nights) you have to be man enough to respect that booking. A deal is a deal, right? Well, not at Booking.com. Fallacies, lies and so on. In the end, I was fobbed off with a proposal for a similar place to sleep and you get the price difference back. Oh, wait: up to a maximum of 25 euros. My only choice was an hour outside the city and was many hundreds of euros more expensive than the nice apartment near the Bastille.  <strong>Travel agent?<\/strong>  I honestly don&#8217;t know if Booking.com&#8217;s a travel agent, because then they don&#8217;t make much of it. What I do know is that it&#8217;s definitely not an IT company. If you can&#8217;t even technically handle the raison d&#8217;\u00eatre of your online business. 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