‘March Madness’ Basketball Fans Get Fast Hotel Booking Help from Travelaxe.com - Travelaxe, Inc. Offers Side-by-side Price Comparisons in all NCAA Play-off Cities
Travelaxe, Inc. of Austin, an aggregator of hotel reservation info, makes it easy for NCAA basketball tournament fans to compare hotel costs and book a room quickly by showing side-by-side price comparisons for each of the play-off cities' hotels at its web site, www.travelaxe.com. It aggregates info from 20 travel web sites for a quick view and click through to reservation, as well as noting events for those fans going to the city but who could not get arena tickets with their friends.
Austin, TX (PRWEB) March 11, 2005 -- Looking for the best room rates in an
NCAA basketball play-off city? No need to “follow the bouncing ball” from web
site to web site. College hoops fans can get side-by-side cost comparisons
online both quickly and easily from Travelaxe.com.
Travelaxe, Inc. of
Austin, one of the world’s fastest growing aggregators of hotel reservation
information, provides detailed, comparative pricing on room costs for each of
the playoff sites along with a handy tournament schedule. A few clicks finds
reasonable room rates for every city your favorite college team will encounter
as it moves through the regional competition toward the Final Four.
The
three-year-old company serves business and leisure travelers with hotel
information from 3,464 cities in 104 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe, notes
Carl Samos, president and founder of Travelaxe. Information from more than 20
different travel websites has been compiled into unbiased price comparisons with
the lowest price highlighted.
Men’s games leading to the NCAA Final Four
in St. Louis on April 2-4 will be played in Boise, ID; Cleveland, OH;
Indianapolis, IN; and Tucson, AZ; on March 17-19, and in Charlotte, NC; Oklahoma
City, OK; Nashville, TN; and Worcester, MA; on March 18-20 for rounds 1 and 2.
The regionals will be in Albuquerque, NM; Austin, TX; Chicago, IL; and Syracuse,
NY, from March 24-27.
Women’s games leading to the NCAA Final Four in
Indianapolis on April 3-5 will be played in Chapel Hill, NC; College Park, MD;
Dallas, TX; Fresno, CA; Knoxville, TN; Minneapolis, MN; Seattle, WA; and Storrs,
CN; on March 19-22 for rounds 1 and 2. The regionals will be in Chattanooga, TN;
Tempe, AZ; Philadelphia, PA; and Kansas City, MO from March 26-28.
“We
know what a mad fan scramble there is for good lodging at the right price as the
brackets get smaller and smaller following each playoff round,” Samos commented.
“We can save tournament fans time and money and help them avoid some
fly-by-night hostelry in the boonies featuring inflated prices and sagging
mattresses just in time for the big NCAA competition.”
More than 250,000
users of the free system have already downloaded and installed the
Windows®-based, hotel rates search system onto their own personal computers.
Travelaxe.com searches all the leading travel web sites, as well as
TripReservations.com, TravelWorm, TheReservationCompany, Travel-Center.com and
HotelKingdom.
Travelaxe.com users can select the best deals available
from all those web sites based on their own criteria and then make the
reservation directly with the web site that has the lowest rates.”
Travelaxe is classified as an "aggregator" or "meta search engine,” a
growing class of search engines that scan the web for bargains. Its system is
secure and virus-free. It has no spyware, no adware and doesn't sell its e-mail
lists. The company makes commissions only from the travel web sites, not the
traveler.
Easy Navigation…Maps…Hotel Ratings
“Fans in a hurry
will appreciate the easy navigation at our web site,” says Samos, an Internet
pioneer who led the development of Mosaic®, the famous World Wide Web browser
that resulted in the creation of Internet Explorer®.
“We also provide
help in narrowing the fan’s hotel choices, since they can select from six search
filters – distance, hotel, name (keywords), price, hotel rating and preferred
web sites,” he added. “An Interactive Map & Distance Calculator assists them
in determining geographically where they want to stay in relation to the arena
or some other specific map destination. That could save even more time and
money, since transportation and parking may also be scarce or at a
premium.
“Our system averages the hotel class ratings from many of the
web sites as it searches, giving travelers a better overall idea of the class
rating of a hotel. If the wife or girlfriend isn’t a net fan, or some of your
traveling companions couldn’t score tickets – not even from a scalper, our site
gives them access to show bookings and other events or interesting venues
nearby,” Samos emphasized.
About Travelaxe
Travelaxe, a privately held
corporation founded in 2001, produces the Travelaxe software and web site for
hotel room rates worldwide. Travelaxe is based in Austin, Texas. Visit Travelaxe
at www.travelaxe.com.
Travelaxe – Side-by-side travel site comparisons,
fast!
Contacts:
Bette Reid, Travelaxe, Inc.
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Jacque Chrisman,
Chrisman Group
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Preston F. Kirk, APR, Chrisman Group
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