"Dohop is a search engine for flights, hotels and rental cars"
And this is our Blog
Travel the World
Every now and then a video comes across our radar that really just makes us want to jump out of our seats, pack a bag and go travel.
This is one of those videos.
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Hotel Finding Made Easy (and cheap)
When it comes to finding cheap airfare, Dohop is one of the sites “widely acknowledged as being the best possible tools for doing so.”*
But we also have a really good hotel search. So confident are we in its goodness, that we guarantee the lowest price.
We regularly hear from people who say they use Dohop for finding cheap flights but then go on to Hotels.com or Booking.com to find hotels. The thing is, we search both those sites along with many more (scroll to bottom for complete list), therefor providing better prices.
And just to drive that point home, here are three things that you should know about our hotel-finder:
1. Photos-amundo
Overview of the Montcalm Hotel
The example above is a screenshot of a search for prices at the Montcalm Hotel, in London. A photo-slideshow starts automatically in the top left corner. In addition, a larger image pops-out when the user hovers the mouse pointer over any image, as can be seen. And, to be extra helpful, the Best Price Guarantee thing is circled in red. I’m no good at Photoshop. Clicking the image will take you to the Montcalm on Dohop, where you can give it a try yourself.
2. User Reviews
We got ‘em, and lot’s of them too.
First, there’s the glance:
Rating for The Montcalm Hotel
This appears next to the photos on the hotel site, and users can quickly see what previous guests think of the hotel. Then, below the photos there is a more detailed version:
Montcalm Hotel Detailed Review
This shows what guests are genuinely happy with, and also displays things that they don’t like. In the case of the Montcalm Hotel, there seems to be some debate about the size and quality of the gym. If exercise is important to you when you travel, you might want to find a hotel that has a better-reviewed gym.
3. We search all your favorite sites and brands.
See anything here you recognize?
Dohop Hotel Suppliers
Now, what are you waiting for? Go search for a hotel on Dohop. Once you are amazed and thrilled at the ease-of-use and the money saved, tell all your friends. It will make you popular at parties.
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Dohop’s thoughts on Social Media
There are now a great number of social media sites available, and if the hype is to be believed, companies need to have accounts on every one of them, or perish. But how much truth is there to this? Almost none. Don’t get me wrong, social networks are a lot of fun, and many of them are helpful. And for many people, social is a big part of the excitement surrounding a trip, and hence important to travel companies. But the hype around them is often just that, hype. Here are my thoughts and experiences with the social networks Dohop is currently using.
Facebook is Dohop’s social media home base. The hype around Facebook is, to some extent, underrated (yes, you read that right). To date, Facebook has been the best exposure for Dohop, and one of our greatest sources of traffic. This is still the social network, and there is no reason not to have a Facebook account. In fact it would not be far off to say that today Facebook is the internet. Facebook is one of Dohop’s bigger referrers of traffic, even when we are not actively pushing anything there ourselves. The new Timeline feature only adds to the appeal, especially for branded pages.
Twitter is fun, but I quickly learned that it was neither a great place to “advertise” or get traffic from. However, I have found that it is a good place to make contacts and have mainly been using it at such. Direct messages are especially useful. The short lifetime of tweets is the site’s biggest drawback.
Google Plus
Chris Brogan claims, that “If you are serious about boosting your business through social media, [Google Plus] is where you need to be.” I simply do not agree. I created a Google Plus account for Dohop a few months back and started sharing wildly and following other branded accounts, since you can’t follow or contact people there unless they add you to circles first. And very little happened. Engagement on the site is almost purely with other brands and after a while this just started to seem pointless. I was following (circling?) brands that Dohop was already following on Twitter and Facebook. The only thing keeping me there, and sharing regularly, is the SEO promise Google Plus has. While Google is going to keep “Search + Your World” going, I am going to keep at it. I might even consider adding the +1 button to the Dohop front page again.
Pinterest is a bit of a “dark horse” as it is still relatively new. Recent reports of it being really easy to spam should not deter brands from using it (nor should it encourage brands to spam the site themselves). I really like the visual layout and very quickly found myself pinning and repinning. The surprising thing for me compared to Twitter, and especially Google Plus, is the short time that passed from me posting something to getting feedback in the form of likes and repins. Pins also have long lives there, with some of my earliest pins still getting repinned and liked. They are growing really quickly, and I totally understand why.
Final Thoughts
Overall, Facebook is very much king for travel brands, with Pinterest showing promise. Twitter is fun, and useful for contacts. Google Plus I just don’t get and it seems to be that their boast of user numbers is odd. Google Plus seems to me to be a conference for tech nerds in a really large and half-empty hall. Pinterest is the loud party next door, and it is getting bigger.
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5 Amazing Landscapes
The world is a very, very beautiful place. Luckily, the invention of the camera allows us to see photos of the places we haven’t been to… yet.
Below are five places that we think look absolutely amazing and that always fuel our wanderlust. Check them out.
1. Antelope Canyon, Arizona
2. Zion Angels Landing, Utah
3. Peyto Lake, Banff, Canada.
4. The Sahara desert, Libya.
5. Sotres, Spain
Luckily, there are always ways to actually visit these places. Your trip starts at Dohop, for flights, hotels and rental cars.
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Win a trip to Iceland! [CLOSED]
** The competition closed on April 18th. The winner randomly selected turned out to be a travel blogger; Jayney Gorman. **
Hai thar!
Dohop, Iceland Express and CenterHotels want YOU to come visit Iceland. We are giving away return flights for two to Reykjavik, and three nights in a hotel downtown.
Iceland looks like this:
Seljalandsfoss, south Iceland
We think Iceland is fabulous and want you to come see it. So we are giving away:
1. Return flights to Iceland for two with Iceland Express! Fly from one of the following airports: London Gatwick, Copenhagen, Billund, Berlin or Cologne.
2. Three nights at one of five CenterHotels
** The competition closed on April 18th. The winner randomly selected turned out to be a travel blogger; Jayney Gorman. **
If you need suggestions of things to do in Iceland, here is our list of Top Ten Things to do in Iceland
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Dohop’s Picture Guide to Finding Cheap Flights
We find cheap flights, that’s our business. But just telling people about this is boring. So we made a picture!
Click the image for a large version.
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What we’ve been up to
A lot of exciting things happening here at Dohop HQ. We switched hosting companies and schedule providers. That is perhaps not something the average traveler cares about, so I’ll put it another way: we now find more cheap flights, faster.
We are also working on breaking ground in Norway, mostly by trying to get ourselves noticed by those that cover travel by the Norwegian media. Norwegians like to travel just as much as the next guy, except that when they use Dohop they are looking for flybilletter, which is my new favorite word.
But the biggest news of the lot is perhaps that we are working with some clever people on a complete redesign of Dohop. Below is a slightly blurred sneak peek at the new look.
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