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[Reporter Zhou Xingrui/Taipei Report] It is currently the peak tourist season in the post-epidemic period, and many people are impatient to travel abroad. Due to the development of the Internet, people are gradually accustomed to booking rooms, air tickets and bus tickets online by themselves. It is convenient, and sometimes you can accumulate points to pick up bargains, which is very popular among travelers.

Among them, Japan can be said to be the favorite tourist country for Taiwanese. Even if they do not understand the language, they can arrange their travel itinerary with simple Japanese, Chinese characters and English.

However, when people use online reservation platforms to book Japanese hotels, there are some things to pay attention to, because many reservation platforms now, even if a hotel does not directly cooperate with them, sell the hotel, those are other Japanese travel agencies to the reservation platform Share inventory.

For example: Hotel A signs a contract with travel agency A for 10 rooms. Travel agency A wants to sell these 10 rooms better and have wider access, so it shares the inventory with booking platforms B, C, and D on the Internet. Consumers Booking through platform B, hotel A received orders from travel agency A. In fact, through two or three platforms in between, sometimes the information is not conveyed well, and the booking will go wrong!

This kind of room reservation inventory sharing is really complicated, but consumers don't know it.

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Mandy, who is in charge of room reservations at a Japanese hotel, said that she often handles some cases of errors in online room reservations. She said that every time she wrote a confirmation letter in Chinese and English to guests, some guests would reply: "What! I booked a room with a street view. ?” or “What! I booked a smoking room?” Mistakes are endless; also, the Japanese government is currently launching a “National Travel Support” subsidy campaign, and hotels will also launch related discounted products, but they are only available to Japanese people. Many Taiwanese people book after seeing the discounted price, but they have to pay the full price for the accommodation if they can’t use it on site….

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In order to ensure a pleasant journey, Mandy reminds everyone to pay attention to the following when booking a room online:

1. If you book through a third platform (other than the official website), it is best to write to the hotel to reconfirm whether the reservation is successful.

Some online platforms usually have a reservation number, which means that the reservation is successful; but in case the reservation platform shares the inventory, or the reservation platform does not transfer the order to the hotel, it is better to double confirm with the hotel.

2. Make reservations through the official websites of each hotel as much as possible. In case something happens, the hotel has the right to directly decide.

But booking through a third party, temporary cancellation, and whether to charge or not, the hotel really can't decide, you have to ask the third party.

3. Choose an interface that you are familiar with. Don’t just see the cheap price but fail to understand the explanation of the plan.

4. Do not repeat appointments.

Many consumers have already made an appointment for a certain plan, and then make an appointment again when they see a cheaper plan, which is prone to mistakes and disputes.

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