The Court also found that, until at least 2 July 2018, Trivago misled consumers to believe that the Trivago website “provided an impartial, objective and transparent price comparison for hotel room rates.”
Come the time to book your accommodation for a holiday and you probably have a list of things that that you check. Does it include cleanliness or d you take that for granted?
Trivago calculates an index called best value and Plymouth has topped the index this year.
You might have read that holidays and travel to Spain are getting more expensive.
Yes and no!
The traveller is an odd beast. What we prefer is a downturn. Then prices of hotels, flights and car hire drop. But then in downturns we might also have to trim our spending or, at worst case, face redundancy. But as the market improves and people feel more confident prices rise and the traveller gets hit by increased costs with not necessarily any improvement in income to pay for it. I suspect we are in that cycle now. Air fares have risen and now comes evidence from Trivago’s Hotel Price Index that hotel prices this December are going up as well.
Trivago is a hotel comparison website. They operate throughout Europe and recently asked people using their site about people’s worst hotel experience. The biggest complaint amongst those responding to their British website was finding bugs in their room. They don’t say what sort of bugs or their size but obviously we’d rather have bugs outside rather than in. And it was also the highest rated problem in the website answers from the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, France and Italy.
