francophile03

Hi, there's an ad on Fodors for this low fare website. Is it reliable? Thanks.

rex

I don't see a website there.

Since you are a vetran, I will assume that you didn't make it up - - nor try this as a clever ruse to get more people familiar with www.godaddy.com

Best wishes,

Rex

Patrick

I may be a snob, but I don't drink "Cheapo" wine and I'd avoid a place called "Cheapo-cafe". I have no intention of booking anything through any place called "cheapo-anything".

francophile03

No, I haven't been hallucinating or drinking too much wine. There's really an ad on the right hand side of this screen. It's not actually linked to that www.cheapoair.com primarily. The ad is for www.biztraveldeals.com.

I agree that anything that has the word 'cheapo' in it is risky. But I was just wondering if this one is ok.

rex

I only partially agree with your biases against "cheapo", Patrick.

I think that the (accommodations) listings at www.eurocheapo.com (all "extracted" from listings on the www.venere.com website) seem to have had some thought put into them (though perhaps I am deceived on this), and they may well indeed represent some low-budget, better-value choices, in the cities they cover.

Matrexx

I stayed at Hotel Orchidea in Florence which I found through eurocheapo.com and it was great! We had a very comfortable stay there at a that was just right.

Patrick

One of the things that bothers me about these sites in terms of hotels --
I'm currently looking at a couple of hotels in Spain. When I go to the actual hotel sites they offer quite a range of prices. I can only assume their lowest price is for the poorest room (usually labeled "standard" room as compared with a variety of "deluxe", "superior", "deluxe-superior", etc. classifications". When I go to the budget sites, they only offer one price, presumably for that "standard" room. While it looks great compared to some of the rates from the hotel, it is still higher than the lowest price direct from the hotel. Since you really can't pick and choose the type of room from the "cheapo" sites, I always wonder if it is simply guaranteeing me the same "poorer" room that I'd get if I booked the lowest price with the hotel itself. If I rely on getting an upgrade when I get there, wouldn't I be just as likely to be ugraded if I booked the cheapest room from the hotel?

Intrepid1

In our experience it depends on the booking/marketing service in terms of the "type" room you get. On Utell, for example, you sometimes have a choice between the so-called standard room and rooms which are more expensive, and you would assume, either larger, or better located, etc.

Let's face it...these hotels use these various services to market rooms and sometimes at below their own published rates. I am personally inclined to deal with the hotel directly and whenever I look at a discounter or booking service I always compare the prices with those offered by the hotel directly.

kenderina

In my experience with hotels here in Spain most hotel rooms are just the same. I mean, if a hotel has 150 rooms..125 are standard and the other 25 are the upgrades. I feel the concept of cheapest room that I know for sure to exist in , for example, Britain, doesn't apply too much for hotels here (hotels 3-4 stars ). The lowest rate is just a deal with a few rooms in the hotel, not because they are worse rooms, look at it as a marketing strategy
In budget hotels I think the rooms are all of them "poor" in cities and really variable on the countryside.

laurafunk

hey, I used CheapoAir.com, their service was quite good, I had to fly last minute to visit my boy frind in cali, he bought me the ticket - 180 usd round trip. It was on ATA, but the cheapest i could find anywhere.