megabus accelerates customer services with hotel bookings from LateRooms.com
LateRooms new partnership will enable customers of budget coach travel company megabus.com to book low-cost accommodation


/DotCom News Articles/ - MANCHESTER, UK, January 18, 2008 - megabus.com customers can now find the best value hotel deals as they book low-cost coach tickets. The company has signed a deal with late-availability hotel room specialist, LateRooms.com, to provide hotel search and booking facilities on the megabus.com website.

The partnership will enable customers booking low-cost coach travel around the UK to also have access to over 6,500 hotels on www.megabus.com with reductions of up to 70 per cent off standard prices. LateRooms' technology enables true last-minute booking for hotel rooms in megabus.com's
key UK destinations of London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Cardiff.

"Megabus.com customers want the best deal for their travel, so adding the option of booking best value accommodation on the same site provides a complete cost-effective travel package," said Duncan Barraclough, Partnerships Manager, LateRooms.com. "To ensure the best booking experience, it's important that the savings customers make through booking with Megabus.com are not wiped out by extortionate hotel prices at their destination."

"LateRooms' technology is extremely user-friendly and offers fantastic deals for hotels of all types," said George Connell, Programme Manager, megabus.com. "Customers can book right up to the moment of staying, which fits with our vision of maintaining low costs but also a high level of customer satisfaction. Our integrated website also allows customers to book low-cost rail journeys through megatrain.com and these customers will also be able to book accommodation through the LateRooms service."

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