Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Movie
Is a complete waste of time. Went there with Monique tonight and it really blows. The book was so much better and the conversion to white screen completely degraded the whole story. No fun at all. Monique was bored the entire time, I did have some laughs, but only because I recognised parts from the book and envisioned the whole story by it. Absolute no-no.
War of the Worlds on the other hand, is a really entertaining movie. Just like Madegaskar. Better spend your time on those movies.
Online booking sites are frauds
I mean the kind that offers you an easy way to book a hotel. I’m looking for a hotel at the Veluwe for the weekend of the 19th till the 22nd of this month. Well, we don’t have such a large budget to spend on these things, so I’m looking for… well… not cheap… but not expensive either. So I started looking at several sites that offer multiple hotels and an easy search mechanism. Since we prefer to take Aagje with us, I’m expecting slightly higher prices than the prices listed there. But not 130 euros more expensive…
I saw a hotal priced at 99 euro for two nights. Since we want three nights, it had an option and the price became 151 euros. Reasonable. Having a dog with you costs another 15 euros a night, which I think is quite reasonable too. Especially since Aagje is an Alt Deutscher Schäferhund, which isn’t a small breed. So I sms’ed Monique with the 195 price tag, telling her it might become a bit over 200 because of insurrances and the like. Well… not.
The final price was almost 300 euros. How come? In the final step of booking the hotel, all of a sudden, a lot of extra costs are added to the bill. No explanation, no notice whatsoever, just almost a 100 euro higher bill. I’m sorry, but I consider such a thing fraud. Especially when those costs are very vague like “Arrangements/extra costs” (45 euro) and “Bookit insurrance” (2,50 euro). No explanation whatsoever. I hate that.
I’m calling the hotel to see if I can get it cheaper if I book directly with them.
