Comments on: One Brilliant Hoax Later, Hotelicopter Joins The Hotel Aggregation Fray

By: Fox

Fox — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:16:23 +0000

The hotel price aggregators have actually made very good progress. I know someone that has worked on a small project for one – it’s a lot harder to sort out then flight meta search.

By: Rob Barham

Rob Barham — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:05:11 +0000

There are quite many of these meta search engines for hotels now – all reinventing the wheel – so the ones that will survive need to stand out in other ways. Hats off for a great rebrand / marketing launch.

By: Maikel

Maikel — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:44:07 +0000

Great application. It’s very easy to get a hotel

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By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:22:15 +0000

Hmmm…I can read the headlines now “The worlds first hotelicopter.com crash!

By: Goldy

Goldy — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:07:13 +0000

They have a killer set of hotel listings worldwide and they mave matched or beat any prices I have seen elsewhere.

By: htown

htown — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:51:03 +0000

yup. And I must say, I like “hotelicopter” as a brand much better than “VibeAgent”.

As for why not “roomreservations” (above), well, I suppose thats just an aspect of literal vs. playful branding — for instance why is Amazon.com is not “booksandstuff.com” . Either approach works for me…

Greg

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:42:32 +0000

It’s not actually a NEW site, it is just a new name for VibeAgent.com, which has been around for a while.

By: Name owner

Name owner — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:35:20 +0000

Wouldn’t roomreservations.com be a better domain for them?

By: Raghavan

Raghavan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:30:50 +0000

Great strategy

By: Will

Will — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:29:29 +0000

Doesn’t Kayak already do this? It seems like this is just kayak’s affiliate program with some CSS and a facebook connect widget. The product doesn’t seem too interesting.

Love the April Fools stunt though.

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By: Lauren Blackwell

Lauren Blackwell — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:19:03 +0000

Thanks so much for the mention!
– Lauren Blackwell and the hotelicopter team

By: Igor

Igor — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:15:50 +0000

Reminds me of the Roflcopter