College Baseball Playoff Fans Get Fast Hotel Booking Help from Travelaxe.com
Travelaxe, Inc. offers side-by-side hotel price comparisons in all NCAA super regional cities and Omaha for the World Series.
Austin, TX (PRWEB via PR Web Direct)
June 3, 2005 -- College baseball fans who follow their teams to playoff sites
around the country must be flexible. While this weekend's games are set, sites
for Super Regionals are up in the air until Tuesday (June 7) when final sites
are announced. That means baseball fans will need to move fast to guarantee they
get a room in their preferred hotel at the lowest price.
College baseball
fans seeking fast lodging information and the best prices can hit a homerun
every time with 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
cities that will serve as super regional sites as well as Omaha, Neb., host city
for the 2005 NCAA College World Series.
The super regional sites will be
announced on ESPN on Tuesday, June 7. The super regional competitions will be
held June 10 through June 13. The 59th College World Series will be in Omaha
from Friday June 17 through Monday June 27.
"We know what a mad fan
scramble there is for good lodging at the right price as the brackets get
smaller in preparation for the World Series," said Carl Samos, president and
founder of Travelaxe. "We can save baseball 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."
The
four-year-old company serves business and leisure travelers with hotel
information from 3,464 cities in 104 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe.
Information from more than 20 different travel Web sites has been compiled into
unbiased price comparisons with the lowest price highlighted. Travelaxe sends
the user to the Web site with the lowest price to make a reservation, thus
allowing the user to book with sites they trust.
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 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
"We also provide help in
narrowing the fan's hotel choices," Samos added, "since they can select from six
search filters – distance, hotel, name (keywords), price, hotel rating and
preferred Web sites." An Interactive Map & Distance Calculator assists them
in determining geographically where they want to stay in relation to the
baseball stadium 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 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. Samos is an Internet pioneer who led the development
of Mosaic®, the famous World Wide Web browser that resulted in the creation of
Internet Explorer®. 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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512/917-2807
Jacque Chrisman, Chrisman
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512/345-8969
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/6/prweb247688.htm