What does booking mean? and things to remember. — Selection by criteria

is one of the most popular housing search systems around the world. Millions of tourists trust the Booking.com system to book their stay.

Benefits of Bookingcom

• the system shows available rooms in real time;
• Not only hotels are connected to Booking, but also hostels, apartments, holiday homes, guesthouses, villas from private clients - all offers in one place;
• reservations are made online, no need to call or write to confirm your reservation;
• most rooms can be booked with free cancellation in case plans suddenly change;
• no booking fees;
• You can find a hotel on the map;
• no fake ratings - only honest reviews from real customers who have stayed at this hotel before;
• reservations and most hotel descriptions are in Russian;
• 24/7 customer support service.

How to book a hotel on Booking - step-by-step instructions

Official website of the booking system - BOOKING.COM

On the site you can choose Russian language and any currency. Payment for your stay will in most cases be made directly to the hotel in local currency.

Registration in Booking

1 . To search and select accommodation options, you must register in the system. You don’t have to do this right away, but booking without registration is impossible. Registration itself is very simple - you just need to provide your email address. Then you will need to fill out a profile - clarify your contacts so that the hotel can contact you if necessary. Register once and then use it constantly.

Search for accommodation

2-4 . The search itself is very simple and will take you a few seconds - just enter the city, arrival and departure dates, as well as the number of adults and children. Please note that the number of adults and children who will stay in one room is indicated. If you are traveling big company It might be worth booking multiple rooms.

Selection by parameters

Let's say you need a hotel in Prague. There are 1,705 accommodation options on Booking.com. You can look and select housing on the map (3) - this is convenient if you are navigating the city and looking for housing near a specific place. You can first sort the entire list according to certain parameters and set filters to find the most suitable housing.

1 - Selection by criteria

Booking on Booking is convenient because there are many criteria and filters to remove unsuitable options - room rate, number of stars, food, distance to the center, type of room, type of accommodation - hotel, hostel, apartment, amenities in the room - bathroom, refrigerator etc.

2 - Sorting

After you have installed the filters and chosen the right accommodation, you can sort all the options - by reviews (best at the beginning, worst at the end) or, if it doesn’t matter which reviews, sort by price.

Choosing housing

If you like a hotel and are satisfied with the offered price, by clicking on the hotel, you can see detailed information about the property - Full description. Pay attention to what services the hotel has - parking, 24-hour reception, wifi, breakfast, and so on. The room rate information indicates full price, including all taxes. Sometimes it happens that in a city there are local taxes and fees for tourists (for example, in Florence, Venice and others), this information will be indicated in the description of the room type (as in the example in the picture below).

Be sure to read reviews from tourists - you will find a lot useful information both the accommodation facility and the area around it - shops, transport, attractions.

Please note our cancellation policy. Each hotel sets its own. Which cancellation types and penalties there are:

• free cancellation up to a certain period before arrival. In this case, you can cancel your reservation without penalty. In the picture above you can see that there is free cancellation right before your check-in date. Most often, free cancellation is valid for a period of 3-7 days before the check-in date.
• sometimes a hotel gives a discount on accommodation, but at the same time sets the condition that Cancellation without penalty is not possible. As a fine, either the cost of only one night or the full cost of the stay may be withheld. The offer can be very competitive in price, and if you are sure about the trip and you really liked the hotel, feel free to book.

Lifehack! It may happen that your trip is postponed. You can try to negotiate a cancellation without penalty using Booking.com, but everything is at the discretion of the property owner; he can refuse.

Booking and payment

Direct booking takes a few seconds. If you have already registered in Booking earlier (as we suggested at the very beginning), then after clicking on the “I’m booking” button, a page with your contacts will appear.

To guarantee your reservation, you must enter your card details. The card must be valid and must contain sufficient amount To pay for your stay, under some conditions, an advance payment in the amount of the first night or the entire cost of your stay may be debited from your card at any time. If there are insufficient funds on the card to pay, the hotel reservation may be cancelled.

Warning! Some savvy tourists, after booking, try to contact the owners of guesthouses and private mini-hotels and negotiate directly to get a discount. This is especially practiced in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia. Do not do this under any circumstances. Your benefit will be a couple of euros, and the risk that you will arrive and will not be accommodated is very high.

Booking.com booking guarantee

Hoteliers try not to quarrel with Booking because they get most clients. And you can be sure that in a force majeure situation you will receive round-the-clock assistance from Booking.

Some users are worried about what will happen if they book a room, arrive, and are not accommodated. Our cozy editorial team encountered this only 2 times. And this is how it happened and was resolved.

We arrived at the hotel, and there were no rooms there. We have a reservation, but someone decided to extend their stay and completely missed the fact that they had new clients.

Call Booking. Tip - if you are abroad, the cost of a roaming call will be absolutely ruinous. Order in advance so that you always have Mobile Internet and inexpensive cellular. Call Booking, report a problem with check-in and ask to call you back. You will need to provide your reservation number and PIN code, which will be in the voucher that you will receive by email immediately after booking.

Booking takes 30 minutes to resolve the problem. During this time, they contact the hotel (owner of the guesthouse, hostel, apartment) and offer to solve the problem - find a free room. If the hotelier cannot fulfill the booking conditions, Booking will find you a hotel nearby. If its cost is higher, you will be compensated for the difference in price! Checked it - it works. We booked a room in a 3* hotel, and the hotel nearby was 4* and cost 1.5 times higher. Within a week after leaving the hotel, Booking returned the difference to the card.

Also, if the number does not significantly match the description, you can contact Booking and they will refund your money. There was a case when we booked a room with an individual bathroom, but in fact it turned out to be one shared bathroom per floor. A call to Booking solved this problem in half an hour.

For example, here is another similar case found on the Internet:

“I wrote to Booking when they set me up with accommodation in Vienna and, in order not to spend the night on the street, I took the first decent hotel with parking and breakfast (as was originally booked). Naturally, the owner of my “reservation” refused to compensate, but Booking paid me everything, apologized, and then dealt with his own, as you say, “real client.” I don’t know who owes what to whom, but they returned everything to me. I am pleased!"

Booking.com uses a number of psychological factors to nudge you into booking quickly. Don't be fooled by the following tricks.

Booking.com is well known. Read expert reviews on the pros and cons of this popular hotel booking engine, Booking.com.

Without exaggeration, the Booking.com online hotel booking system can be called the most popular Internet service for independently searching and reserving hotel accommodations around the world. We have all visited this resource at one time or another - to find out about hotels in the cities we are interested in, compare prices, study photographs and estimate the distance to the desired museum, store or pub. More than 300 thousand nights are booked on the resource every day (3 nights per second - cosmic proportions!), and information about current reservations is displayed on the site pages in real time. That is, you are looking at, say, a five-star resort somewhere in Marrakech - and then they so subtly hint to you with a pink “pop-up”: “the last booking was made... 1 second ago from the USA.” This definitely encourages: they say, “come in - don’t be stingy...”, otherwise everything will be snapped up. And now the hand itself reaches for the “Book now” button, and the imagination helpfully unfolds tempting pictures of a foreign “Dolce Vita” - albeit as part of the next vacation.

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About the benefits

It must be said that the reasons for the popularity of Booking are quite justified. The advantages of the site are a carriage and a small cart. Let's start with the breadth of scope (with which the resource really managed to “amaze Lisa” - read, international clients, many of whom are not sugar - picky and obsessed with a mania for saving). The Booking.com database currently lists more than 200 thousand hotels in 164 countries of the world - from monsters of the tourism industry, such as Italy, France, Turkey, etc., to the not so popular states in terms of “guests” - the Cook Islands, Angola or the Palestinian Territories. Although there are exceptions: for example, North Korea for obvious reasons, it is not on the lists.

Secondly, Booking guarantees best price for placement - and not only guarantees, but undertakes to return the difference if the client discovers a more advantageous offer. There are, of course, a number of limitations: the argument “my uncle Fyodor’s hotel in Tambov is cheaper” will not be taken into account. Reservations are made without commission - that is, the Internet service itself does not take a penny from you (profit comes from hotels for providing the service, and not from clients for using the service). In addition, Booking.com appears every day Special offers, according to which certain hotels from all over the world offer accommodation at half price (you can subscribe to the “sweet” newsletter).

The accommodation policy is also very attractive. To begin with, let’s say that such payment is made no earlier than upon check-in at the hotel. From which it follows that with Booking there is no risk of throwing a couple of hundred EUR down the drain if the trip does not take place for some reason. Why then enter your credit card details when reserving a room, you ask. It’s very simple: in order not to lose money by running into a restless client who books here and there, and just in case, the hotel reserves the right to charge the cost of the first night by authorizing the guest’s credit card for this amount (we emphasize: NOT for the entire cost residence). By the way, you can cancel your reservation absolutely free of charge no later than one day before check-in at the hotel (in some cases, this is especially true resort hotels V high season- the rules are tightened to 3-7 days).

Other useful features of Booking.com include a lot of objective reviews for each hotel from users from all over the world, a bunch of photos of the hotel and the surrounding area, and exact distances to nearby attractions. Other nice features for citizens of our vast country are the interface in Russian, 24-hour customer support (also in Russian) and our own office in Moscow.

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...and things to remember

In addition, you need to remember that despite the extensive Booking.com database, not all hotels in this city or at the resort you need. This is understandable: not every hotelier (especially in countries closed to modern trends, such as Libya) seeks to conclude a contract with Booking, and some - don’t be surprised - do not even know about its existence. So it makes sense to conduct preliminary market research: ask Google, study satellite maps and websites of tour operators working in this direction. Perhaps it was “your” hotel that fell out of the attention of Booking.com.

Finally, it should be mentioned that complete data credit card you still have to enter it. Booking, of course, works according to the most modern standards of secure connection, but no one can give a 100% guarantee of the safety of your funds, and danger can lurk not only from virtuoso hackers, but also from the notorious human factor: from a neighbor peeking over your shoulder, and password-free Wi-Fi to hotel staff who have little understanding of Internet technologies in some small but proud country where you, as if it were a sin, are going.

Booking made easy

And finally, a brief “subtle” instruction for booking hotels on Booking.com. Select the interface language, register and confirm your account by clicking on the link from the email sent to you. We go to the site under our login and enter into the search box any information available to us: the name of a hotel, city or resort, airport or attraction. Voila! - Booking.com shows us all available options, including hotels in nearby towns and cities. We study the list, study the prices and stop at our favorite hotel. Click “book”, enter the tourists’ data and credit card details. We confirm the reservation. We catch the confirmation email (it also contains a link to change or cancel the order), print it out and attach it to the voyage envelope with documents. We show the printout at the hotel reception and pay for your stay. And that's it - a pleasant vacation begins!

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Booking- a system of relationships between the artist, the client and the booking agency that has created the catalog of artists.

The role of the booking agency in this system is to coordinate the parties between whom such economic and business relationships have arisen, and the subsequent agency (engagement) of the artist on the date required by the customer. At the same time, the booking agency is not involved in the coordination and administration of the event itself.

Application

Event agencies, booking agencies, artist catalogs, bookers work with booking technology.

Most often, booking technologies are used to organize sets of DJs and go-go dancers, as well as freaks in nightclubs.

Booking is not an artificially created type of business, but, first of all, a need of show business, artists, and promoters. Booker, being an intermediary, protects not only the interests of the artists, but also the interests of his customers - the organizers of entertainment events. By concluding an agreement with the customer, the booker guarantees the artist’s performance and, in the event of force majeure, guarantees that the artist will be replaced by someone no less professional in the same genre. Knowing the characteristics of the customer and most of the events he hosts, the booker selects artists faster and more accurately.

Domestic booking, like most new products in business technologies, is an experience Western countries. The emergence of booking can rightfully be considered one of the important steps in the development of the domestic entertainment industry and show business.

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See what “Booking” is in other dictionaries:

booking- (English booking) 1. book, writing in a book 2. reserving for a place (in wanted, car, avion, etc.) ... Macedonian dictionary

A freight agreement under which individual shipments of cargo are secured for the next scheduled voyage of a liner ship carrying cargo. Regular freight lines register cargo in advance for the next flight or flights. In English:… … Financial Dictionary

Booking notes, booking notes... Spelling dictionary-reference book

A document that records all the necessary data about the cargo and indicates the place and method of its placement on the ship. Dictionary of business terms. Akademik.ru. 2001... Dictionary of business terms

A type of contract for the maritime carriage of goods in liner shipping, which is based on the terms of a liner bill of lading, when each shipment is issued, in contrast to a freight contract concluded under the terms of a voyage charter. B.n.... ... Dictionary of business terms

- (English booking note) a contract for the carriage of goods by sea, which stipulates the conditions for placing the cargo on the ship and paying for transportation. Raizberg B.A., Lozovsky L.Sh., Starodubtseva E.B.. Modern economic dictionary. 2nd ed., rev. M.: INFRA M.... ... Economic dictionary

Noun, number of synonyms: 1 list (25) ASIS Dictionary of Synonyms. V.N. Trishin. 2013… Synonym dictionary

Noun, number of synonyms: 1 contract (49) ASIS Dictionary of Synonyms. V.N. Trishin. 2013… Synonym dictionary

BOOKING LIST- a document in which data on the cargo to be loaded onto the ship is entered. B. l. usually contains a description of the cargo, information about its weight and volume, type of packaging, as well as an indication of the nature of the placement of the cargo on the ship...

BOOKING NOTE- a type of contract for sea transportation of goods in linear communication. Unlike a freight contract, which is based on the terms of a voyage charter, B. n. are the terms of the linear bill of lading, which, like a maritime contract... ... Large economic dictionary

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Who at the hotel knows your card details?

Six months ago I traveled around the USA and last hotel I booked using a friend's American card.

Irina Nikolaeva

travels a lot

The hotel found it suspicious that the room was booked by one person and paid for by another. To confirm that everything was in order, we had to indicate in a special form all the card details, down to the CVV code.

I was sure that only scammers ask for CVV, so I called the hotel. The conversation with the hotel operator dragged on, she was tired of explaining and said angrily: “Well, in short, enter the numbers 578 in this field.” It was CVV bank card, which we entered an hour ago on Booking.

This is how I found out that Booking transfers all bank card data to hotels. I’ll tell you what else I found out about booking hotels and how I now protect my money.

The best protection for money is an additional card

In any unclear situation, pay and indicate the details of the additional card. Apply it to your main account, set a limit and relax.

Set the limit to how much you are willing to spend on a hotel. When the card is not needed, set a limit of 10 RUR.

If scammers get your card details and try to cash out, they will not be able to withdraw anything, and you will receive an SMS.

Additional card is free. To be completed via Internet Banking.

How Booking works

Most of the client’s booking actions take place on the Booking website. Therefore, clients sometimes believe that they “booked a hotel from Booking”, “paid to Booking”. This is wrong. At Booking, two independent entities meet - the hotel and the client.

The hotel sets the cost and other conditions of stay, is responsible for the correctness and relevance of this data and receives information about the reservation from Booking. It is the hotel, and not Booking, that confirms the reservation, corresponds with the client about the conditions, reschedules or cancels the stay and accepts payment. Booking only provides a platform and tools for interaction between the hotel and the client.

Why does the hotel need your card?

If you don't want to pay right away, the concept of a "booking guarantee" comes into play. The hotel promises to provide you with a room in exchange for your promise to pay for the room.

The hotel's guarantee is supported by its business reputation and the Booking reservation system. The client's honest word, unfortunately, is not enough to guarantee.

If the client changes his mind and forgets to inform about the cancellation of the reservation, the room will remain empty and the hotel will not receive a profit. Therefore, hoteliers want to receive a financial guarantee: if the client cancels the reservation after the specified date, he will have to pay a fine.

To be able to collect a fine, the hotel needs your bank card information. Booking provides this data to the hotelier immediately at the time of booking.

Who knows your details

When you enter your card details on the website, Booking transmits them via an encrypted protocol - if an attacker intercepts them, he will not be able to read them. The vulnerability occurs when your data is received by a hotel.

Booking provides two-factor authentication for access to Personal Area hotel: only an authorized hotel employee can see the client’s data. Theoretically, he should only withdraw or freeze the amount due under the terms of the booking and cannot use the card data for other purposes. As a result, the fate of the money on your card depends only on the decency and responsibility of this employee.

In the agreement between the hotel and Booking, the hotel undertakes to process card data in accordance with the payment card industry data security standard. However, the contract does not stipulate either verification methods or sanctions for violating the safety standard.

If a hotel carelessly stores printed reservations, for example leaving them at the front desk, then card data may become available not only to hotel employees, but also to other guests. If, a couple of months after your trip, someone in China buys a bike with your card, you won’t even immediately understand where the attacker got your data from.

At the moment when the hotelier saves your data to his computer or prints it out, Booking declines responsibility.

How to book a hotel safely

If you do not want to transfer your card details to the hotel, you can do without it. I'll tell you about several methods that I tried.

Independent prepayment to the hotel. There are advertisements on Booking with the note “You can make a reservation without a credit card.” To find them, select the “Reservation without a credit card” filter from the menu on the left.

To guarantee your reservation, the hotel will offer to make a bank transfer, PayPal transfer or to a bank card. The reservation will only be confirmed upon receipt of such advance payment.

The advantage of this method is that the hotel will not recognize your card details.

Personal agreement. In some cases, in correspondence with the hotel it is possible to maintain the reservation without financial guarantees. After my letter, two guest houses in the Seychelles agreed to keep a room for me without prior transfers or freezing money.

Such a concession is a right, not an obligation of the hotel. If the hotelier has already encountered dishonest or unnecessary guests, he may refuse to book a room for another tourist without prepayment.

Separate card for booking. I chose this method because this way I don’t have to perform unnecessary actions every time and enter into correspondence with hotels. At the same time, I am completely confident in the safety of the money on the main card.

Before booking a room, I transfer the required amount to a separate bank card and make sure that there is no money left on it after the trip. Even if my data is obtained by an attacker, my savings will remain safe. I only use this card for hotel bookings.

The main thing in 30 seconds

Immediately after booking, Booking transfers to the hotel all the bank card details you entered. Even CVV, if you specified it.

This occurs regardless of the terms of payment and cancellation of the reservation. Even if the hotel does not withdraw or block your money, all your card data immediately appears at its disposal.

Authorized hotel employees have access to card data. If they neglect security rules, an attacker may find out the card details.

It is possible to book a hotel without a card, but this does not work with every hotel and will require more transactions than paying with a card.

A smart way to protect your money is to use a separate card for booking.

Hello friends We continue to fight against incomprehensible programs that get onto the computer in an incomprehensible way. They take advantage of the fact that ordinary users don’t really tinker with their computers and shove whatever they want onto their computer. Often there are some kind of advertising programs on the computer, they advertise something there, bore you with their messages. Others stupidly insert advertisements into the browser, change links, in short, they do whatever they want, it’s sad, but antiviruses can’t really stop this chaos..

In short, it's a shame. But fortunately, many of these programs are not as dangerous as, for example, Trojans that can steal passwords. What do you think of the ransomware virus? It can actually do a lot of things, encrypt all your files on the disk and then you won’t get them back! So damn it, it’s better to let these nasty programs do their dirty tricks than the most dangerous viruses. Well, here I must also say that antiviruses, of course, catch dangerous viruses, there’s nothing to add here

Let's return to our guest, that is, to the Booking program. I installed some programs on my test Windows, tested their operation, saw whether they were suitable or not. Well, after all these things, I see the Booking.com shortcut sitting on my desktop:

I think what kind of yokar babay is this, I launch the shortcut, and the following screen appears:

Then, as I understand it, the main window of the Booking.com program opened, which, of course, advertises some site (it seems to belong to a tourist destination):

Everything is done nicely, there is nothing aggressive in the form of any messages, well, buy something there, discounts, schmidts.. Everything is calm here. If this booking fuking program is expanded to full screen, it will look like this:

We can say that this program is essentially access to the site. I think that booking.com works fine through the browser, why create a separate program for this?

You know, when I analyze the work of a program, I am also interested in what processes the program is running under. So let's check, I go to the task manager:

I select the Processes tab, and here I see that the program has as many as four Booking.com.exe processes (not bad at all):

I have four Booking.com.exe processes and they all consume RAM normally, so to speak, in total there will be about 100 megagrams. So you know what I thought? Four processes, the program itself shows the Booking.com website, maybe it’s a Chrome-based browser? This was the first thought that came to me... I right-clicked on the process, selected the option to open location, this folder opened:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Booking.com

This is where the program lives. It’s good that at least it’s not in the wilds of Windows. We see that there is a file BookingIcon.ico, this is an icon, of course I think the file BookingErrorPic.png is a graphic file of the program interface. Well, in short, all I mean is that there are program files here, everything is fine

By the way, you see, the main file itself, that is, Booking.com.exe, weighs almost 600 kb, which is a little more than half a megabyte, please note this information

Well, do you need this program? It seems like you can order tickets here, or something like that. No, well, if you like to travel and travel often, then you can study the program in more detail, maybe you’ll find something useful for yourself

I remembered that you can probably book a hotel there. In short, I went to the website, where you can specify the city, arrival date and departure date. So, if you think logically, it turns out that you can select a city, specify a date and then select a hotel and book, something like that. I’ll tell you a secret, I chose my city there, it’s certainly not rural, it’s normal Big city, not America, but damn, the prices there are just crazy...

Okay, of course the hotels there are just nice, I wanted to relax right away, but with such crazy prices.. oh well! I uninstall this Booking.com program, press the Win + R buttons, write this command:

Click OK, a window will open in front of you where all the installed programs are located, here we find Booking.com version 1.3.0.5019 (your version may be different), right-click, select Delete:

Then the Booking.com Uninstall window will appear, click Yes:

That’s it, the removal process has begun, it won’t take much time:

That's it, we removed the Booking.com program, about which I can say that it turned out to be simply unnecessary for me personally. Good luck, hang in there, everything will be fine!

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