Hotel deals in Asia

I have travelled to Singapore for business purposes 11 times in the past 18 months and I’ll be going on my 12th trip next week. So far, I have never extended my stay for leisure cause, well, it’s Singapore. It’s just a cleaner version of KL.

This trip though, I’ve decided to stay over an extra night, catch up with some friends and visit that bloody casino that everyone talks about.

So I was quite happy to hear my ex-PR boss mentioned to me today about this sales site for hotels in Asia.

Oh, you mean Groupon for hotels?

He shot me an incredulous look that he always does when I say… almost any thing at all actually. I think he secretly thinks I’m psychotic. He said I constantly sound surprised. -.-”

It’s not Groupon!!

So drama.

So what is it?

He gave me that look again.

It’s like for hotels and stuff.

Hmmm.

Turns out he was right to be dramatic. It wasn’t a group buying site. It was a flash sale site called HotelClub. They have this scoring system where they’ll take into account the demand for a particular location, vacancy and hotel reviews to determine a Sale offer and the deal for the hand-picked international hotel will only be available for 24 hours. I suppose it works for our kiasu mentality la. “If don’t buy now we’ll miss it!”

This site was originally from Australia but they saw a high demand in Asia and decided to launch here too. Woo-hoo for us!

Unfortunately, today’s deal is for Vietnam and not Singapore But they’ve still got cheaper prices for hotel rooms with a really easy to navigate site! I love how I can expand to view photos, description and reviews without having to load another page! Kudos to that!

I think I’ve found the hotel I’ll book but I won’t be publicising it here in case anyone decides to stalk me.