To New York

I’m visiting New York at the beginning of November. Got cheap tickets from Stockmann’s crazy days a week ago, but haven’t been able to write anything here due to extremely high amount of tasks in my work — which is a good thing indeed, but sometimes some private time would be nice…

Anyhow, the tickets were cheap, but all hotels are priced outrageously high. We searched for a suitable hotel for hours, and finally find an excellent and still reasonably priced in hotels.com. The price was in euros and the site in Finnish, so I was not prepared to see 20% additional taxes on the confirmation page.

The site did not tell anything about the taxes before that, so my expectations were managed somewhat poorly. At the end, we decided to get the hotel directly from the hotel’s site — it was easier, cheaper and also cancellation policies were better. I wonder what kind of business hotels.com is winning?