How can I benefit from being a registered user on Hoobing?
How can I register with Hoobing?
Who can register with Hoobing?
Why do I have to provide a Stay Receipt?
What does Hoobing accept as a Stay Receipt?
Why can’t I read my comments immediately after posting them?
Hoew can I get more points on Hoobing?
Can I use Hoobing if I am not a registered user?
Can I save my preferred hotels and blogs on Hoobing?
Are there any additional costs for booking a hotel I found on Hoobing?
Can I organise the information I get through my customized search processes?
Where can I find the hotel contact details?
How can I find hotels with specific characteristics?
Can I arrange the results of my travel blogs search processes?
What do the terms in blue that appear just below the blog description mean?
Why using Hoobing?
Hoobing is a hotel search engine where you will find hotels with a direct link to their official website. In this way, you will have the option to carry out your bookings directly on the hotel website. This simple! Besides, for every comment or review you post you will have the opportunity to win points that you can change for offers and prizes. But Hoobing is not only a hotel search engine: we also include a travel blogs search engine so that you can increase the info for your future trips. Therefore, in the same tools you can search easily for hotels and blogs to design your custom made trip.
How can I benefit from being a registered user on Hoobing?
To become a registered user with Hoobing has got many advantages: from getting points from reviewing hotels, to design your trips and share them with other users, carrying out comments and reviews about hotels. Likewise, we know that more and more users check out travelogues to increase the information about their favorite hotels and tourism destinations. For this reason, Hoobing includes links to the most popular blogs according to search processes carried out within Hoobing.
How can I register with Hoobing?
It’s sooo easy! Just check the upper area on the homepage and click on Do you want to be a Hoobber? Register now! You will also find a link on the Hoobers section, with the header Do you want to be a hoober? Register here!.
Who can register with Hoobing?
Any user wishing to contact directly the official hotel website, avoiding the waste of time general search engines entail can register with Hoobing. Besides, registering with Hoobing, users will be able to carry out their search processes by category, reviews, location, etc. as well as contributing with their opinions, getting points for every posted review or comment.
How can I get Hoobing points?
It’s very easy. Once you become a registered user, you will get points for visiting the hotel official website by means of the link included in the datasheet of each Hoobing hotel. You will also get points if you review our hotels and prove that you effectively stayed there. We recommend you to check the following link where we fully explain the different ways to get points from being a Hoobing registered user.
Why do I have to provide a Stay Receipt?
It is very important for Hoobing to prove that users who post reviews about the hotels effectively stayed at them. With the purpose to corroborate those reviews and comments are true, users will must provide Hoobing with a receipt proving that he/she effectively knows that hotel, having stayed in it… in short, adding veracity and quality to the information provided by users. Do not forget to provide a Stay Receipt for each review you post, you will get points!
What does Hoobing accept as a Stay Receipt?
Any document proving that the user effectively stayed at the hotel is deemed valid by our Helpdesk department: a booking receipt (displaying the name of the registered user), an invoice (under the name of the user) and/or multimedia content (pictures and videos shot in the private areas of the hotel).
Why can’t I read my comments immediately after posting them?
As you know, Hoobing requires a Stay receipt of your stay at the hotel you want to post the comment about. We must verify that your opinion is based upon a true experience. For this reason, the comments will not be automatically published.
Hoew can I get more points on Hoobing?
You can get more points inviting your relatives and friends to register with Hoobing.com. you will get more points for each new registration carried out from your requests.
Can I use Hoobing if I am not a registered user?
Of course, you can search for hotels and blogs including a direct link to their corresponding website, etc. But remember, you will not be able to post reviews or to get points from your Stay receipts.
Can I save my preferred hotels and blogs on Hoobing?
Yes, you just need to be a registered user with Hoobing and mark your preferred hotel and/or blog by clicking on add to favorites..
Is there any additional costs for booking a hotel I found on Hoobing?
No, our philosophy is to remove costs associated to the bookings. That’s why the final booking will be carried out on the official website of the hotel. Hoobing simply encourages you to check our hotels and get exchangeable points for your contributions.
Can I organise the information I get through my customized search processes?
Yes! Every time you carry out a search process, you will be able to arrange the information by hotel category, most popular hotel or randomly as well.
Where can I find the hotel contact details?
You just need to check the extended hotel datasheet, there you will find the telephone and fax numbers and the contact email, as well as the hotel address.
How can I find hotels with specific characteristics?
Click on "Advanced search" within the header menu. You can refine your search processes by selecting the stars, category, price range, reviews and services like Spa, swimming pool, free wifi, etc. .
How can I find travel blogs?
On the upper side of the website we have included a multiple search engine, where you can search for hotels, blogs, offers and Hoobing registered users. Regarding the travel blogs search engine, we recommend you to enter keywords according to the name of the country – Italy, Japan, united kingdom- or the name of the blog if you already know it "Lost in Tokyo".
Can I arrange the results of my travel blogs search processes?
Of course! You can filter the results by posted reviews, by most popular blog, or randomly as well. You can also arrange your results according to the different blog categories. Continents, adventure, backpackers, beaches, cruises, cultural tourism, events, independent traveler, food and beverage, mini breaks, health, hotels, maps, mountaineering, museums, nightlife, photography, restaurants, routes, safari, tips and recommendations, transportation and weather.
I checked a blog on Hoobing I consider really useful in terms of pictures, contents, tips and recommendations, etc. Can I communicate it somehow to the rest of users?
We not only recommend you to inform the rest of users through the link "Recommend", which you will find in the datasheet of every blog, but we strongly encourage you to review your favorite travel blogs, and even to subscribe to them. Blogs are a very useful information source to get ready for your trip since they are enriched with the experience and memories of the authors themselves. Review the blogs on Hoobing and you will encourage other travelers to check them!
What do the terms in blue that appear just below the blog description mean?
The terms below the blog description are the keywords relating the the of content of each blog (tags or labels). Thanks to these keywords – drawn from the content of each blog- the travel blogs search engine can offers you the most accurate results
Whenever I check a blog I found on Hoobing... Why can’t I find the content in relation to the keywords I entered when I searched on Hoobing?
As we mentioned above, keywords are related to the content or topic each blog is about. Each author chooses the topic that better suits his/her blog, and some bloggers can create a blog exclusively devoted to a country (Lost in Tokyo), or describing his/her trips in general, including brief articles about his/her experiences in different countries ("Los viajes de Hector y Yolanda"). For example, if you search for a blog labeled with the keyword "Italy", you will get blogs including Italy-related articles, like the blog "Yobosayo", which describes about the different trips 30 year old Christine & Mike made, who took a year off to travel around the world. The user can also find a blog exclusively devoted to Italy like "El Blog de Sicilia".
