Gaurav Gombar

I have been using internet for almost 11 years since it was launched in India way back in 1995. It has evolved with time which made our life much easier and have dramatically effected the way we buy services / products. One of the best things I like to do on internet is to make my travel arrangements and find enough information for the places I would like to visit. I have been making my air / railway / hotel accommodation arrangements before I go for any vacation.

There are lots of websites which provide such kind of services but I recently found one website HotelReservation.com which offers more than 70,000 properties worldwide, airline bookings, car rentals. HotelReservations.com offers the information travelers need to book the perfect trip all backed by the HotelReservations.com Price Guarantee.

I was looking for a return ticket for my Jijaji from Los Angeles to Delhi and found they had some good deals and were offering a combination of American Airlines and Virgin Atlantic at around USD1180 which was the best price I could find after spending few hours on different websites. The other options provided on the site were few and expensive, I wish I could have found an offer preferably on Ashiana Airlines or Cathay Pacific.

Their search interface was quite easy to use and fast enough. They provided some features such as -

- Sorting on Lowest Price; Shortest Flight; Airline; Overall Travel Time
- Provided a guide for cities on which search was made
- View a Map where you can see where the hotels are located

They also provide booking for hotels, cars, vacation rentals, vacation packages. I liked their form for vacation packages where in they provided a form for finding the best deal for making an airline booking + hotel booking + car rentals which really makes it easier for travellers to quick access of all required details from a single view.

They also provide a 24×7 customer support and have a toll free number for US & Canada as well. One thing they could add here is provide a Live Person support which I have found very useful while interacting with some websites. It is really helpful to get support through web interface once you get stuck somewhere rather than giving a call on toll free.

The other thing I liked about this website HotelReservations.com is the Price Guarantee that they offer.

Special Internet Rate hotel reservations booked through Interactive Affiliate Network are guaranteed to be the lowest rate. If there is a lower rate available for the same dates and the same hotel, you must contact us within 24 hours of booking your “Special Internet Rate” reservation. We will either refund you the difference or cancel the reservations without penalty.

If you find this Sponsored Review to be useful, do give HotelReservations.com a try before you close your travel plans.

The tagline - “Wherever you go our Network follows”, is proved true by the Hutch mobile service provider, atleast in my case when they took prompt action to my complaint.

I had emailed them that in the cafetaria of our company which is in the basement, the network signals of Hutch goes missing and I am unable to receive and make calls. They took a prompt action and replied to me twice and now the issue has been sorted out and the network signals are available in the basement and one can easily use the Hutch mobile connection in the cafetaria as well.

Thanks Hutch for listening.

Usually everyone has few close ones/ friends who smoke and you keep telling them to stop this bad habit of smoking as it is injurious to health; it effects your lungs; shortens your life span and what not. But really what happens to smokers if they stop smoking right now.

- In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal.
- In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal.
- In 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All nicotine will have left your body. - Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level.
- In 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relax, and your energy levels will increase.
- In 2 weeks your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks.
- In three to nine months coughs, wheezing and breathing problems will dissipate as your lung capacity improves by 10%.
- In 1 year your risk of having a heart attack will have dropped by half.

For further years down the line, check this out

Below is the video of the winner, Armin Mangelmann of Carvin 2005 Indoor Model airplane flying contest. His flying skills are really amazing. Just loved the video , hope you like it too.

Pixelotto.com is the new venture of Alex Tew who earned his way through by putting up a Million Dollar Homepage. Now he has again come up with a cool idea to earn another million by just altering the concept a little bit.

What he has done this time - the base concept remains the same, Pixelotto has 1,000,000 pixels of ad space, this each pixel sells at $2, instead of $1.

How you can win a million dollar?

The extra $1 will be put into a prize fund for the winner of Pixelotto. A month after all the ad space is sold, one ad is selected at random and a winner is chosen from all those people who clicked that selected ad. A millionaire is made! The winner will also get to nominate a charity of their choice to receive $100,000.

Seems, Alex is on his way to earn another million.