Monday, March 20th, 2006
Paguna.com: Ajax Hotel Booking
Category: Showcase
Travel sites have been pioneers in the Ajax space. One of the first Ajax applications that I saw was a dutch travel site (second to Outlook Web Access of course ;).
Paguna.com fits the entire booking process into a single page Ajax application. Run searches, make selections, all in one area.
3.8 rating from 44 votes
Online hotel booking done right!
This amazingly useful online hotel booking tool fits the entire booking process into a single page: run searches, make selections, all in one area. Sweet!
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Reminds me of TravelCLICK’s “One Screen” booking engine folks were raving about a few years ago. Nothing new here other than the use of Ajax rather than Flash. In some ways, this feels like a step backward to me.
Could be improved by showing the number of hotels available after each criteria selection…
Just like in IntuiCat
What a mess. Ajax for it’s own sake, rather than to improve usability. Feels clunky, unintuitive, fragile and hugely complex. What a joke! I’ll be v. suprised if they sell any rooms using such a system…
It’s alright. It’s still pretty rough around the edges but at least it’s in exercise in moving towards a scenario where you find the bookings you want in a faster, less cluttered space.
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I do like the calendar widget…at least different.
It’s great, actually.
I’d like to know what it’s like to use with a screenreader or similar … or perhaps in lynx? ;D
It’s a SPA. But there’s lots elements in the page.
I agree with Tierry
It’s a mess, people are simply getting carried away with AJAX, 80% of peope are still using IE and are NOT very tech savy. There don’t care if stuff moves around in cool ways. They just want something simple, if your not convinced, look at the success of craigslist.com. Don’t forget your building web applications for normal folks on the web.
AJAX can improve usability, but use it moderatly and effectively!
Although not bad, I find kayak’s interface much better. By the time it took Paguna to load the search results I could have all ready booked twice on several other services. Verdict: Nice idea, Bad execution.
[...] While I was reading my RSS feeds yesterday I read something about this new AJAX way of booking your hotel, found on Ajaxian. The service is called Paguna.com and got me excited when I read about it. It also made me think of a service I saw a few years ago already which was called OneScreen, offered by iHotelier. I haven’t got a demo url for Onescreen so you need to see on the website on one of the hotels using it. I picked the Ritz in Paris because that just sounded cooler than the other hotels on the client list. [...]
Ajax Hotel Booking
Paguna.com fits the entire booking process into a single page Ajax application. Run searches, make selections, all in one area.
hello!!!! is this web site designed using ajax???????????
can anyone xplain how ajax may be useful in this regard ……..
What are the main alternative to Ajax? What about costs?
In my opinion it is a real mess….
Not user friendly at all. There are better open source products on the market that do not use ajax, but are more user friendly.