Travel Blog
The latest news and notes from the Travel team
Easily find hotels by travel time with Hotel Finder
Thursday, February 27, 2014
If you’re visiting an unfamiliar city or just want to stay near a specific landmark or location,
Hotel Finder
can help. Use the search by
travel time
filter to quickly narrow your options and find the closest hotel -- whether you’re traveling by car, public transit or walking.
Lets say you’ve always wanted to visit the famed fictional detective Sherlock Holmes’ home in London but you’re not really sure which hotels are nearby. Start by going to
www.google.com/hotels
. Enter “Sherlock Holmes Museum, London” and select your dates. In the top left corner of the map, click “Show hotels 15 minutes from...” to filter by travel time. Select 10 minutes by public transit. In less time than it takes to read these instructions, you’ve just narrowed your search from 2000+ choices to less than 200.
If you want to narrow your options further, you can sort by travel time and only hotels with a 4.0+ user rating. Elementary my dear Watson! You’ve further refined your choices to only 33, making it much easier to plan your trip!
We’re very excited about the planning power this gives you, and we hope
Hotel Finder
makes planning your next trip a little more fun and a lot easier.
Konrad Gianno, Software Engineer
Calendar shopping for flights just got easier
Thursday, February 06, 2014
Let’s say you want to go skiing in Vail, Colorado this winter, but you’re flexible on when you leave and how long you stay. Try our improved
Flight Search
calendar from any of your devices to help you quickly figure out the best deal. As soon as you start entering your dates, a new, expanded calendar pops up with the lowest fare highlighted for each day. Select your outbound date and prices update instantly for return dates. You can change stops, length of stay, preferred airline or more -- and prices update instantly, without having to do any extra searches!
To see how prices may fluctuate based on the season, holidays or other events, use the lowest fares graph under the calendar. It lets you scroll through future months to quickly and easily compare airfares across dates. Now you can see low-fare flight options, even if your travel dates are far in the future.
For your Vail trip, as you enter your origin and destination cities, a calendar pops up with lowest fares for each day. If you quickly scan the lowest fares graph below, you’ll see that March is the least expensive time to travel. Select your outbound and return dates. Try restricting the results to non-stop flights and compare the price difference for a 3, 4 or 5 day trip. Now you can make your final selections and book your flight, feeling confident you’ve found the best option for your trip.
We hope the changes we’ve made will help you save time and money! If you haven’t already done so,
try
our enhanced calendar shopping and lowest fares graph when planning your next trip.
Posted by Rani Manoharan, UI designer, travel
Labels
Case studies
Corporate news
Customers
Google Flights
Google Flights price tracking
Google hotel search
Google Travel Blog
Guest post
Hotel Deals
hotel search on google
Hotels
Industry news
Mobile
New features
product announcements
Products
Smart Filters
Travel
User tips
Videos
Archive
2016
Jul
Mar
Feb
2015
Nov
Oct
Sep
Feb
2014
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2013
Dec
Nov
Jul
May
Mar
Feb
Jan
2012
Dec
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2011
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Feed
Follow @googletravel
Give us feedback in our
Product Forums
.
