Hotel-Booking.com
Hotel-booking.com – is a hotel-booking site out of Italy that defies every law of visual organization. Now, maybe it’s just me. Maybe there’s some deep-rooted cultural rift between the way Italians and Americans interact with visual information. Maybe…
The homepage is more or less one large table divided into search categories of: destination, hotel name, days, stars, rooms and currency. These are actually very practical and applicable categories and the set-up is admittedly functional—no scrolling is required to see everything the website has to offer. Unfortunately, each subheading is delineated by a thick red line, turning the page into a starless American flag with a fitting column of travel ads to the right.
Perhaps the interface is less important to you, however. Then let me turn your attention to the site’s creative use of the English language. The banner at the top of the page reads: “Search, find and buy the best hotel for you in the world at the best rate. HOTELBOOKING: more than 70.000 hotels in the world! LET’S COMPARE AND BOOK NOW!!!” While I appreciate the exceptional enthusiasm, the questionable grammar leaves me skeptical about booking my hotels with hotel-booking.com.
