MrPink
Traveller
4 comments
Posted 13 years ago
im pretty confused about the accuracy of [ux]https://rail.shop/hostelworld[/ux]
i looked for hostels via rail.shop/hostelworld (10th to 12th of july, dorm (dont care about mixed or not) in paris) today and hostleworld only found partially availability in some hostels.
i looked the day before, i got completely other results (eg i found the Plug-Inn two days ago, today its not listed at all)
despite that it (plug-inn) was only paritally available then and is not listed today, i got my stay there for those two nights (dorm, mixed), cause i just tried booking on their own homepage.
Maybe their own homepage is updated more often, but this makes rail.shop/hostelworld pretty unrelyable ?! :( .
greetz
Peter
Traveller
9337 comments
Hi.
When a hostel doesn't shows up, it is usually full - which will easily happen during the summer months.
And it has nothing to do with accurate or unreliable.
A booking system can only show up the information given by the hostel. If the hostel doesn't fill up the system with content, it can't be booked - just normal. Isn't it?!? ;)
Believe me: Hostelworld wouldn't be as big as it is if their system wouldn't work.
By the way: the booking on their homepage is also via a booking-engine.
Peter