Expedia.com, Priceline.com, and Orbitz.com… All Wrong.com’s

Simply put… All of the above mentioned sites (and many others) have their lodgings pre-arranged in geographical areas. Travelers are forced to browse through these categories. It shouldn’t be that way.

Why?

  • I hate imaginary boundaries (“Imagine there’s no countries – It isn’t hard to do” ♫)
  • The itinerary of each traveler is different

Here is an example: Suppose you are a vacationing traveler that wants to come to New York. If you mention that to large online travel agencies, such as Expedia.com, Priceline.com, or Orbitz.com, they all will show you a few options to stay in Manhattan and, maybe, Jersey City. There are, however, hundreds of additional alternatives that they will never show you…

I just happen to live in Secaucus, New Jersey, 20 minutes away from Times Square via public transportation. Hotel rates in Secaucus are just a fraction (between 30% to 50%) of the hotel rates found in Manhattan. Hotels in Secaucus are also roomier and offer free parking. A lot of people would rather stay here and take the bus or train to the city, yet, the large online travel agencies do not offer these options.

Why is that? Because of the way the major online travel agencies catalog their lodgings geographically

Fortunately, that won’t be an issue for LetMeGo. We will NOT limit the choices of our travelers with pre-arranged geographical areas or imaginary borders. How? The answer is simpler that you can imagine, but it is a secret for now. All I can tell you is that the scope of LetMeGo that will take care of the solutions has reached alpha stage; the Arrmstrong Scope. This goal has been reached thanks to the hard work of Maestro and, primarily, German. Thank you guys!

FYI, this is the current status of LetMeGo:

Scope Progress
Scope Alpha Version Ready
Web Scope
Morrison Scope
Cockerr Scope 90% of Testing
Hendrrix Scope
Sinatrra Scope 50% of Coding
Mozarrt Scope
Arrmstrong Scope
Mastrropiero Scope 100% of UI Design
Kubrrick Scope 20% of Coding
Brrown Scope 100% of UI Design
Marrley Scope 100% of UI Design
Waterrs Scope 100% of Requirements
Rrose Scope 100% of Requirements

Alexander Torrenegra

P.S. By the way, the Arrmstrong Scope heavily depends on a project that I greatly admire: GeoNames.org.

About the Author

Alexander is LetMeGo's co-founder and jefe. Here is his LetMeGo profile. You can follow him on Twitter @torrenegra.

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