Hotels on the Net
All has been quiet here lately for the very good reason that I have been catching up on some holiday time after the election.
Most recently, I found a hotel called La Quinta Roja in the north of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
On the personal side, I can’t recommend the place enough as the building is fantastic, the staff could not be more friendly, and the village of Garachico a top place to spend a few days. They are just about to go into a prolonged period of fiestas in July and August including a reenactment of a volcanic eruption that hit the place in 1706 so it will be a little noisier than when I visited but a lot of fun.
On the technical side, I find some of the websites that Spanish hotels in particular have put together very charming. My other favourite is for a hotel called La Rectoral in Taramundi, Asturias. This is very flash-dependent but is worth the bandwidth.
I am fascinated by the change that the net has made to the travel business as I now do almost all holiday booking on the basis of how hotels present themselves on their websites and then respond to email requests. I have seen some figures for the proportion of bookings that now happen online but have made a note to myself to try and track down some authoritative information on this.
