Roomsnet.com is happy to announce that we have recently improved the destination discussion topics on our website, to make it more user friendly and informative. As in the past, we are on a continuous effort to enhance our user experience on the destination discussions on Roomsnet.com Travel Community. We are currently monitoring the usage patterns of the participants on destination discussion boards and are adding new features to enhance the user experience.

The discussion topics on Roomsnet.com travel community allows our members to seek help from other members, when planning a trip to a destination of their choice. More experienced travelers and those members who have valuable information to share with others can benefit by helping others solve their travel related queries. Based on the quality and the volume of your responses, we will pick “Top Contributors” on each destination discussion board, and reward them with more loyalty discounts to book hotels on Roomsnet.com.

You can view the current discussion topics available by visiting any of our destination pages.

By clicking on a selected topic, you can view all the replies for that topic on a separate page. If you have any relevant information to share, you can reply to the discussion by posting your response in the text box provided.

Please take few minutes and visit some of our destination discussion boards. Share your knowledge with those who seek help on these discussion boards, or ask your own questions to get feedback from others. Let us know if you have any suggestions on how to improve the user experience on Roomsnet.com discussion boards. We are happy to listen to you and improve our site to serve you better! You can leave your feedback as a comment on this blog post.

We have selected the winners of the “Top rated member albums” award on RoomsNet.com Member galleries for the month December 2008.

Below are the winners and their winning entries. Winners will be informed via email and be awarded with loyalty discounts worth of £ 20 each for every photo, and loyalty discounts worth of £ 50 for the video.

Top Rated Video of the Month

Tigers of Bandavgargh: Submitted by Robert Bullett

Tigers of Bandavgargh

Top Rated Member Photos of the Month

Aparthotel Atlantic Garden: Submitted by A. Kasperavicius

Aparthotel Atlantic Garden

View from balcony : Submitted by  Ana Morna

View from the balcony

View from balcony : Submitted by Patrick Roberts

View from the Balcony

Pool : Submitted by Hazell Orchiston

Pool

Mountain view room: Submitted by  Jim Elms

Mountain view room

If you are not a winner this time, don’t worry! Keep submitting good quality photos and videos to RoomsNet.com Member Galleries and let others know about your albums. If you have already created an album, invite people to vote for you by using the “Share this” option on your albums and photos. If you haven’t shared your travel photos and videos yet, start creating your albums now.

It’s never too early to plan a summer holiday. There’s many more months for summer, but planning well ahead can save you a lot of money and energy.

How can Roomsnet.com Next Trips help You?

It’s very easy. All you have to do is, just log into your Roomsnet.com Member account and go to the “Next Trip” tab.

Enter your preferred destination for traveling, and select a tentative travel date. Click “Create a Next Trip” and that’s it!

We recommend you to set your Next Trip sharing setting to “Allow other members to view where I have been to or where I am going, so that I can interact, share, and exchange information about my trips”.

That will enable you to enjoy most of the benefits described below.You can create as many Next Trip itineraries you’d like as tentative Summer Holidays.

What benefits would you get by creating a Next Trip?

As soon as you create the Next Trip, you can access a whole range of filtered information on your Next Trip page, perfectly matched with your requirements. You will get some accommodation suggestions in the destination you picked, based on their popularity among other people who traveled to that destination. You can connect with other people who recently traveled to that destination, or people who plan future trips there.

The photos and videos submitted by past travelers is an absolute bonus. If you have any doubts or questions about the place you are planning to visit, you can post a question on the discussion board for that destination and get fast responses from rest of the community members of the Roomsnet.com Member Club.

Best of all, Roomsnet.com sends out special discounts from time to time to those who create next trips on our website, and you might have the chance of getting one such special discount to book a hotel in your preferred destination.

So, don’t wait any longer and give it a try at http://roomsnet.com/memberclub

We are happy to announce that we have picked the winners of the “Top Recommenders of the Month” awards for December 2008.

Each of the winners’ Member Accounts will be credited with a £100.00 loyalty discount, which they can redeem with any future hotel booking made on RoomsNet.com

December 2008 Winners

A.  Kasperavicius - from Marijampole,Lithuania
M. Okeeffe – from Lee Road ,Ireland
Paul Whittall – from Wolverhampton, UK

If you are not already aware, every month we award three lucky winners with £100.00 in loyalty discounts for being our “Top Recommenders of the Month”. That probably is the highest you can earn by recommending any travel website these days.

A couple of months ago we started re-designing our entire website to serve our customers with more flexibility and ease of use when planning their holidays online. We understand that time is a major concern for our customers, when searching accommodations on the internet, so we have re-designed most of our web pages to suit this need.

The newest section of our site to be re-designed is the destination information page. All the web pages on our site containing information pertaining to popular destinations around the world, are now re-designed and deployed in full. The new web pages are designed to deliver higher loading speeds and to maximize the user value for the time spent on our site. Apart from that, the new destination page carries several new features.

Quickly find a hotel on “Popular Hotels” section.

Users can quickly sort the hotels by Roomsnet.com ratings, or by actual guest rating and find the most suitable place to stay in less than a minute. All the hotels in the destination are listed in this section, sorted either by Roomsnet.com picks or by past guest review ratings.

Find Your Perfect Hotel to Stay on a Map

This is a feature that has been long awaited. We received lots of feedback from our customers, that they want to evaluate the other hotels nearby to a hotel they have picked to book, before making a final decision. This interactive map will help to locate all the hotels in your preferred destination, and you will be able to have an idea of the distance in between each hotel, and the distance to popular attractions in the area. The map facilitates satellite pictures of the area as well.

Discussions Boards

Now you don’t have to visit numerous websites and discussion boards to get fellow travelers’ opinions on the place you are going to visit! Discussion forums are right here on Roomsnet.com, and it’s now made available on the new destination information page. If you have any doubts to clear about the destination or the area you are planning to visit, you can always get fellow traveler opinions by opening a new discussion topic on the destination discussion board. Or you can help other travelers by sharing your knowledge and answering someone’s questions.

View Photos and Videos Submitted by Real Travelers

You can view lots of photos and videos of the destination you are interested in; all taken by other fellow travelers like you. After you return from your holiday, you can submit your own photos and videos to the site, and earn more loyalty discounts to book with Roomsnet.com in the future.

Destination Comments Wall

If you have any comments about the destination (positive or negative), you have the chance of sharing your views by posting a comment on the destination comment wall. This is a great place for people to express their views freely, and get feedback from others.

These are only some of the new features on our latest destination information page layouts. There are lots more for you to experience! Take a look at one of our newly designed destination information pages, and give us your valuable feedback. You can leave your feedback as comments on this blog post. Your opinion will help us immensely, to further improve our website.