Get the Best Hotel Deal at The Last Minute with WorldMate
Here's the problem: you need a hotel reservation. Now. But you don't have access to the internet or if you do, you don't have time to start searching for hotels by neighborhood. You just want a hotel room near your meeting, or near where you are at this very moment. Sound familiar? It happens to me all the time...
The solution is right in your cellphone using WorldMate's Hotel Booking feature. It’s an extremely useful tool for booking last-minute hotel rooms directly from your phone. And if you want, it will even take note of your current location when searching for hotel options so that you can remain in the same area. As WorldMate knows where you're going, all you have to do is select the meeting you want to find a hotel near, and the duration of your stay. WorldMate will then search for hotels that are close by, and meet all your personal preferences: your budget, brand, quality and preferred amenities. It will then present a list that is ordered according to all these criteria - we call it Smart SearchTM. This means that most probably, one of the top few hotels on the list is exactly what you need.
Prices on WorldMate are on par with the lowest available online rates. We have a partnership with hotels.com, which is part of Expedia. Our hotel offers are drawn from Expedia's database and are the exact same low prices that appear on its websites. To be honest even we’ve been surprised at how competitive our rates have been lately, though unfortunately that’s also just a reflection of the current tough economic times.
Hotel bookings on WorldMate are easy, especially if you’re making plans on the go and location is a key factor. A cellphone is more secure than the internet when it comes to financial transactions so booking on your BlackBerry isn't just the simplest way to go, it's also the safest. And as we auto-fill forms for you - it's even faster.
If you're stationary and have more time, go online for planning that's both informed and location-based. It's particularly great for finding a hotel which is convenient for your plans in a way that avoids zigzagging back-and-forth from one side of a city to the other.
Keep in mind that Smart SearchTM also manages preferred amenities like internet access or a gym. We like to imagine all of WorldMate's users maintaining a healthy lifestyle and running on a treadmill in hotel gyms... In fact Gilad Gruber, WorldMate's Vice President for Research and Development, refuses to stay in a hotel that doesn't have one (he calls it his "no gym, no travel" policy).
Two short demonstration clips:
Hotel Booking on the BlackBerry
Hotel Booking on the web
Questions? Suggestions? Please post them here and we’ll get the discussion going.


A lot of useful information in those links, thanks. I feel that it might even be too much for me to “digest” in just one week.
Posted by: Nexpider | July 29, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Please let me know that if we make booking for the hotel through worldmate live using Iphone then how we are charged. Is it through the credit card that I have registered with apple itunes ? Please confirm.
Posted by: Harish Kumar Goyal | October 22, 2009 at 01:55 AM