tisdag 19 juli 2011

Hotel app test for Android and iOS

A test of Hotel apps for Android/iOS. All of them are for both OS:es if nothing else is noted. I've investigated how many hotels the app finds in Cannes, France and in Lund, Sweden, two very different cities. I've ranked the apps from 1 and then worse:

1. Tripadvisor. Clearly best. Finds 137 hotel in Cannes. The cheapast ones offers rooms from € 25. It finds 13 hotels in Lund. Acceptable GUI.

You can't add hotels in any of the apps in this list yourself, but in the case of Tripadvisor, you can make suggestions on the website. Problem with the site and app is that only about half of the hotels have prices, not the really cheap ones usually - but they're registered and have reviews. If you make a review on the phone, you have to fill in stuff you're not interested in to be able to submit; that's not the case for the website.

2. Hotel Booker. Second, but clearly after no 1 above, because the really cheap hotels simply aren't there. 167 hotels in Cannes. Cheapest: €59 i Cannes. Finds 10 hotels in Lund. Nice GUI.

3. Hotell/Hotel Finder/Hotel Shopper (blue and yellow symbol, not for iOS?). It finds 144 hotels in Cannes. Cheapest: €59. Ugly GUI. But it works.

4. Booking.com. 30 hotels i Cannes. Nice GUI. Only really expensive hotel, from €79 in Cannes! 11 hotels in Lund

5. Hotels.com. Hotels from about €59. Many settings possibilities, but everything takes time with that app. Finds 30-35 hotell i Cannes. Finds 8 hotels i Lund. The hotel lists continues irritatingly enough into neighbouring cities.

6. ToucHotel. Very few hits for Cannes: 14. Most of the hotels in Lund though. The function find closest hotels (or whatever it's called) puts me 500 km away.

7. Orbitz. Finds 22 hotels in Cannes. The second cheapest is from $127, so prices are incredibly high.

8. Hotels (only iOS): 128 hotels in Cannes. No prices. Are you kidding me?

9. Kayak Flight and Hotel Search. No hotels in Cannes. In Sweden, only hotels in suburbs to Stockholm are found. ;-)

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