Click Here to consider Asian Itineraries’ 3 levels of travel packagesI have used Wotif a couple of times for booking accommodation, and have found them quite good for Thailand in particular. I like the format of their search page, and the prices they offer are competitive, although not necessarily better than elsewhere.

However, the hotels that do deals with them as WOT hotels, you would expect to be very strong offers, as they offer these rates “anonymously”, theoretically not undermining their brand, but still filling rooms at the last minute. The down side of the WOT hotels, is the consumer doesn’t get to see what they are until the commit, and are therefore taking a gamble that they will like them. Location etc becomes difficult to establish, and as such could be disappointing. as a trade off for this, the customer would want a big discount!

My experience was in Bangkok, as we wanted somewhere 4 star, but had been staying considerably cheaper in the rest on Thailand, and didn’t want to spend too much.

So we booked a WOT hotel, 4 star, in Sukhumvit, was all the real information provided, along with description saying major international brand, new hotel, etc etc.

well it wasn’t new, it was new to the company, and newly renovated (so that was OK), and it wasn’t a major international brand, at least, not by my expectations ( although it was international - Furama International - hotels in Singapore, Bali and Bangkok).

BUT THE PRICE WAS GOOD. we paid 1799 baht, and the best price they would offer as a walk up was 2499 baht. The hotel was the FuramaXclusive Asoke, and It was in a reasonable location, across the road from the Millennium hotel, close to Asoke BTS and underground train stations. I will report on the hotel in another post, as this post is more about the value in a WOT Hotel.

What was odd, was that all the guests in the hotel were Australians!, who had all booked through Wotif!!! So that was unusual. Shows how well Wotif WOT hotels works for the hotel (they were newly acquired to the chain, so maybe not marketed though traditional channels yet?).

In summary - happy with Wofit WOT hotel

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