We are Happy Hotel Guide

Here at the HHG, we specialise in providing travellers with all of the information they need to enable them to make the best choices when it comes to hotel reservations. Travelling should always be a happy experience, yet so often we hear tales about ‘nightmare trips’ or ‘hotels from hell’, we aim to put a stop to all of that. A good economic market functions best when information is freely available to all, so by offering this service to members of the public, we hope that all hotels will be forced to improve in order to remain competitive in today’s market place. Too many hotels rely on name recognition alone, while taking little effort to ensure that their service and quality levels remain high. No longer! We collate information from across the internet, as well as from our own studies, in order to provide consumers with independent information that allows them to choose their hotel with confidence. So, if it is a good hotel guide 2011 that you seek, then search no more for here we are; recommended by AA hotel guide, we aim to democratise the business of hotel recommendations, and in the process we want to personalise the experience to make it more than a stale, soulless process and bring back the fun to staying away from home. Consider us your good hotel guide 2011 and beyond. We welcome and encourage your input into the site, as we are only a loosely organised coalition and new members help us to grow and fill the site with the truth and knowledge which we all possess about which hotels are worth visiting and which we should skip.

An independent Hotel Guide

Many online good hotel guides have corporate backers who influence and even edit the type of reviews that make it on to the site. This type of corporate censorship, or even worse self-censorship, is all that is wrong with an industry which was built on familiarity and accommodating the needs of guests. While the mega-chains buy up small, independent hotels; others are forced into franchise arrangements, and this has been a big part of the motivation for setting up HHG. We are staunchly independent, run by a team of volunteers, we are a not for profit company whose online desire is to get information out to the public about which hotels deserve your business and which do not. We have no issues with the larger hotels, as long as the service they provide is in keeping with the prices they charge, and we intend for this website to be a forum for deciding if that is the case. By all means pay hundreds of pounds to stay in a city centre hotel, but if the service is unjustified then come and write a report for us and tell us all about your experience, so others can learn from you. We are interested in a co-operative society of information sharers so that, potentially, wherever you are in the world, you can find out what others think about the hotel you are considering patronising, and we promise never to be patronising. We expect to be known as the hotel guide, which people will turn to before making any bookings, eventually usurping the AA hotel guide as a reliable source of accommodation information.

A Co-Operative Hotel Guide ethos

The hotel guide of the moment – that is how we are being referred to online, due to our revolutionary concept of being a good hotel guide that does not seek profit, but is run and organised by its members alone. We have volunteers who help us to manage, program and maintain the site, but content shall be written always by our members, sharing their experiences with the community in order that we may all grow together, and, ultimately, we will be able to shape the hotel industry as we see fit. We have no problems with corporations managing hotels, but we do have an issue with poor service at a high premium and so, while the AA hotel guide may not be able to outline the nitty gritty, this good hotel guide 2011 shall have no problems in speaking its mind and letting the world know who deserves our hard earned cash and, in the bluntest possible terms, who does not. The revolution that we have started will, we hope, spread like wildfire and enable a new kind of co-operative principle to get a grip on the hotel business. The period of slackness is over, we want good service and we want it know! Those hotels that do go the extra mile deserve the power of publicity, which they generally cannot afford due to their small stature. That is why sites like this one can really help those small hoteliers to get a voice in the mainstream that is usually clouded out by the big behemoth corporate hotel chains.