Making Hipmunk Hotel Search on Mobile

[Guzba]

http://blog.hipmunk.com/post/16129662762/the-making-of-hotel-search-on-mobile

[masonhensley]

Since when do y'all are including AirBnb listings? That's pretty cool to include them in the search results with traditional hotels.

[treeform → masonhensley]

We have included them from the start. They are an alternative to hotels just like we include Amtrak train searches in flights.

[Timothee]

Thanks for sharing.

On the web version it feels that the highlighted hotels are too few now. For example, over all of Paris, it shows only 10 highlighted hotels, with a bunch of gray dots all around. It gives me the feeling that there isn't much availability or that your catalogue is short.

When it's at the level of a neighborhood, it makes sense. But at the city level not really (IMO), since you'll have hotels of different styles/atmosphere but of similar quality overall.