Traveling can be lots of fun. From staying in hotels to seeing new places, everything about trips out of your day to day home location can be exciting and make you feel a little adventurous, but at least part of that experience can sometimes feel a little daunting. Searching for and booking hotels. With Booking Now though that part of the trip could be a little simpler as the app aims to help people search for rooms and places to stay and book the hotel in one seamless process. If you’re already familiar with Booking.com, then Booking Now should be on your radar since this is their app.
They advertise viewing and booking in one tap, and it isn’t just a slogan that has no meaning behind it. With Booking Now you start the app by creating a personal profile with your information including your credit card details, which allows you to hit the “book now” button as soon as you find a place you like. It starts with a personalization process that includes entering in details about the price range of hotels you’re looking for and what amenities you want, like WiFi, breakfast, no smoking etc. Once all that’s done you’ll be presented with options for the location or city you’re wanting to stay in and you can sift through them. You can of course, opt to add your card details later upon your first time wanting to book.
Once you enter in your stay location you’re presented with a map view and the first option in the list of places that meets your criteria, and you can move effortlessly between them by tapping the arrow keys at the bottom of the page. Each place has price information listed along with how much of a match it is for you based on what you entered in the beginning, and if you find the perfect place just swipe up on the screen to reveal the book now button and other details about it like customer reviews, a small description about the hotel, and some details about the room itself. All the way at the top of the page next to where you enter in the location of where you’ll be staying is the calendar button, and this is where you’d enter in the dates for how long your stay is. Overall it’s a pretty simple and painless experience for finding hotels and all at your fingertips in an easy to use application.