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Quote from: pixie85 on May 02, 2020, 02:37:28 PM

There are many ways in which a bitcoin payment for a hotel or anything else is being made.

Some businesses want to attract Bitcoin users by giving them discounts which is a great idea. I'd use that.
Some give no additional bonuses but no costs either. I'd think twice because my Bitcoins are my investment and I'd rather spend fiat.
If there are additional costs and I'd have to spend more bitcoins than fiat I'd never do it.

Can you drop a business that will support the use of the cryptocurrency as their payment because today in my country only a few businesses applied the use of this kind of support. I want to explore that kind of business right now. In my country, I just know almost four (4) business that is just a good thing we all need is to scan those barcodes and wait for the transaction confirmation it's more convenient.

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Quote from: MCobian on August 17, 2020, 06:59:29 PM

This is not news that I just heard, because not only hotels in Thailand that accept booked and paid using Bitcoin.
There are hotels in several countries in the world that accept Bitcoin payments, I plan to book hotels using this
Bitcoin. But since the spread of the corona virus has not decreased in several countries, it made me postpone my plans.

Same here. If not for the pandemic, me and my partner could be on another country right now spending some bitcoins. Well, I just think that maybe it's a blessing in disguise. At least we can save more bitcoins to spend more when we can finally get to travel and book a hotel. Grin

Great step for bitcoin, btw. At least we can see that bitcoin is slowly being recognized.

With the use of the bitcoin its more easier to make a payment also this is cashless this is the most important because of this pandemic we want to avoid getting touch by the dirty things and we all know that the physical money is one of the dirtiest thing so this kind of bitcoin will change a lot of every transaction we made.

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Quote from: mydona on August 18, 2020, 12:56:07 AM

what if the prices were high, and I paid the price of a couple of nights cost due to the low price of BTC in the market now.
this means I don't benefit from having a small transaction fee.

i don't like the idea of having BTC in daily use more than being an asset for investing

The price of bitcoin will be showed in dollars and if you are planning to pay using them you need to forget about the long term valuation, the idea behind paying in bitcoin is to promote the cryptocurrency space and nothing else because there are other payment methods that would provide much better offers and i have not seen any payment method with bitcoin that gives a huge offer.

Personally i will not spent with bitcoin but i might change my stance in the future when the price becomes stable and if i get more offers than traditional payments.

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Quote from: MCobian on August 17, 2020, 06:59:29 PM

This is not news that I just heard, because not only hotels in Thailand that accept booked and paid using Bitcoin.
There are hotels in several countries in the world that accept Bitcoin payments, I plan to book hotels using this
Bitcoin. But since the spread of the corona virus has not decreased in several countries, it made me postpone my plans.

Same here. If not for the pandemic, me and my partner could be on another country right now spending some bitcoins. Well, I just think that maybe it's a blessing in disguise. At least we can save more bitcoins to spend more when we can finally get to travel and book a hotel. Grin

Great step for bitcoin, btw. At least we can see that bitcoin is slowly being recognized.

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what if the prices were high, and I paid the price of a couple of nights cost due to the low price of BTC in the market now.
this means I don't benefit from having a small transaction fee.

i don't like the idea of having BTC in daily use more than being an asset for investing

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It is not a Thai country that allows Bitcoin and Altcoin as a medium of exchange, but Travala.com which offers multi payment options, Credit card, USDT, Bitcoin and Altcoin etc.

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Quote from: gentlemand on May 01, 2020, 02:32:21 PM

You used to be able to do it with Expedia. You used to be able to spend bitcoins in many more places than you can these days. That's hoarders for you.

The problem with a lot of travel options with Bitcoin is that they often charge you more. A lot of the flight places in particular are terrible for adding 30-80 dollars or don't have the usual options at all.

I see no reason to pay more for the honour of paying with BTC.

Travala looks about right though. I might investigate further.

Expedia one of the leading travel support platform once accepted bitcoin into their business. It is one amongst the earliest to accept bitcoin. During the year 2014 Expedia officially started to accept bitcoin. Further by the year 2018 this came to an end for some specific reason on revenues. It didn't received expected response from users of Expedia.

Source : Expedia Drops Bitcoin Payments, Official Confirms

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Quote from: Zionatin on May 03, 2020, 12:59:48 PM

Obviously we would pay for a hotel with bitcoin. We would pay for anything we can with bitcoin that is the point. I am really glad that an international hotel place is an embracing crypto. I hope many more follow.
What I hope for the most is when a token is used to pay for services and rooms within the hotel. Using its very own crypto. Then even users who do not stay at the hotel may buy the crypto as an investment and instead of cashing out they can use some of the investment for a nice hotel visit.

A bitcoin-minded person will really help our community to grow, because they will notice that bitcoin has a lot of benefits especially in digital transactions.

This is just a simple way of bitcoin adoption, did you heard about those leaders who are sending bitcoin as a gift?

That's a very wholesome news, we need more of this kind of support and adoption, bitcoin is not only about store of value, source of profit, but it can be also more on a tool for transactions. But it still depends on the country you are in, some don't really legalized crypto and some legalized it. We should not always keep bitcoin, but instead tell them that it does really exist.

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This is not news that I just heard, because not only hotels in Thailand that accept booked and paid using Bitcoin.
There are hotels in several countries in the world that accept Bitcoin payments, I plan to book hotels using this
Bitcoin. But since the spread of the corona virus has not decreased in several countries, it made me postpone my plans.

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Hello to all. I hope in the coming years we will not be surprised that somewhere we paid for the service with Bitcoin. Of course, it's great that Bitcoin is used as a means of payment. If they accept Bitcoins in stores and in hotels, of course I will use this if it is more profitable than US dollars. Personally, for my work, I ask for payment in part in cryptocurrency and I think that this is very good.

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Obviously we would pay for a hotel with bitcoin. We would pay for anything we can with bitcoin that is the point. I am really glad that an international hotel place is an embracing crypto. I hope many more follow.
What I hope for the most is when a token is used to pay for services and rooms within the hotel. Using its very own crypto. Then even users who do not stay at the hotel may buy the crypto as an investment and instead of cashing out they can use some of the investment for a nice hotel visit.

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Quote from: Oceat on May 02, 2020, 06:11:39 PM

There's nothing new about it that can make me proud although I'm kind of disappointed with the fact that they charge more than the usual payment when using fiat.

The difference is not that big to be honest. If they offer other crypto options like LTC, XRP etc, the difference could go even lower. Also, if LN is supported, the difference is pretty much negligible based on what I have observed.

Quote from: Oceat on May 02, 2020, 06:11:39 PM

This goes the same to the other options of buying stuffs or even private property and one of the main reason I am thinking is that they may be charging you more because of the volatility of the price no matter where the price go it's a win-win for them.

They will draw less customers thanks to the extra charges which is why it isn't exactly a win-win situation for them or the customers.

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I guess this is another use of bitcoin as a payment method that we can be proud of. This would at least prove to all those antagonists of bitcoin adoption and legalization that indeed bitcoin can be used as a currency to purchase items and purchase services.

There's nothing new about it that can make me proud although I'm kind of disappointed with the fact that they charge more than the usual payment when using fiat. This goes the same to the other options of buying stuffs or even private property and one of the main reason I am thinking is that they may be charging you more because of the volatility of the price no matter where the price go it's a win-win for them.

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Quote from: Sanugarid on May 01, 2020, 01:12:13 PM

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Would you book a hotel using bitcoins?

It could be if the conditions are urgent. when I don't hold fresh money and only the alternative payment is provided. This can be a good sign because of the increasingly widespread adoption of crypto, the unpleasant thing is that prices are constantly changing, volatility issues, right?
Travel services, hotels, and the like are starting to utilize crypto niches, I am very interested in this innovation. Moreover, payments using crypto are not limited to regions.

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Quote from: pakhitheboss on May 01, 2020, 08:01:20 PM

Expedia has stopped accepting Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies for hotel bookings from 2018. Please check the facts and then reply. Please read this article
https://www.ccn.com/expedia-stops-accepting-bitcoin-driving-users-to-alternative-travel-sites/

Did you notice my use of the past tense? That means it's no longer the case. The past tense is handy and informative and helps us in day to day life.

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For me payment system is not important. I will book hotel which i love, not one that support btc

Yes. Again I'm not going to inconvenience myself just for the sake of BTC. If there's nothing between a place that does take it and doesn't then I might lean towards the one that does. I won't stay in a shithole filled with dying hookers solely because of the payment option.

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There are many ways in which a bitcoin payment for a hotel or anything else is being made.

Some businesses want to attract Bitcoin users by giving them discounts which is a great idea. I'd use that.
Some give no additional bonuses but no costs either. I'd think twice because my Bitcoins are my investment and I'd rather spend fiat.
If there are additional costs and I'd have to spend more bitcoins than fiat I'd never do it.

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For me payment system is not important. I will book hotel which i love, not one that support btc

We are in the bitcoin community and being able to use bitcoin as payment for the booking of your hotel does matter much. Before it's almost impossible to do these things but as we can see, things are becoming lighter for bitcoin to become accepted in most industries.
Hotels, tickets, and other amenities that we need, there are ways to use bitcoin for purchasing those services these days although it's still limited but at least, there is.

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Quote from: XCANA on May 02, 2020, 10:56:57 AM

Well, this depends on my instinct. If I see the possibilities of the cryptocurrency to increase in few months of this journey I won't risk my Bitcoin to pay for hotel because it will make me lose to them. But, when I discover that, the market is downturn I will definitely do. Although this has been an issue for most merchandise who accepted or accepts Bitcoin, the volatility of the cryptocurrency make them be afraid of the carryout their payment through bitcoin.

Yes, such a calculation is indeed necessary but it doesn't hurt if we occasionally use bitcoin to pay for something or book a hotel in this case, because things like this are steps that have to get more support so that adoption like this can continue to grow well, but for me personally will be willing to use the bitcoin that I have to pay for anything and not care about the price that is going down or going up in the future.

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Quote from: pakhitheboss on May 01, 2020, 08:01:20 PM

Quote from: gentlemand on May 01, 2020, 02:32:21 PM

You used to be able to do it with Expedia. You used to be able to spend bitcoins in many more places than you can these days. That's hoarders for you.

Expedia has stopped accepting Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies for hotel bookings from 2018. Please check the facts and then reply. Please read this article
https://www.ccn.com/expedia-stops-accepting-bitcoin-driving-users-to-alternative-travel-sites/

Please learn the past tense, spend two minutes understanding what you read, then post so you don't embarrass yourself as you did here!
Do you understand the part "you used"?

That's exactly what he said, you used to be able to do it with Expedia. In the PAST!

Quote from: gentlemand on May 01, 2020, 02:52:17 PM

Which sites? Name and shame.

It's not always the sites, in most cases, it's the middle man that gives you really really bad exchange rates and adds a few $ as a commission by default.
I know that for years LJ is doing this, hundreds of posts of people congratulating them for adopting cryptos....nobody bothering to check the rates.

But this is an extreme example.
In my case, I paid only something like ~3E for buying a 120E SSD, not that bad, too bad ...the shop dropped the BTC option.

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Well, this depends on my instinct. If I see the possibilities of the cryptocurrency to increase in few months of this journey I won't risk my Bitcoin to pay for hotel because it will make me lose to them. But, when I discover that, the market is downturn I will definitely do. Although this has been an issue for most merchandise who accepted or accepts Bitcoin, the volatility of the cryptocurrency make them be afraid of the carryout their payment through bitcoin.

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Quote from: gentlemand on May 01, 2020, 02:32:21 PM

You used to be able to do it with Expedia. You used to be able to spend bitcoins in many more places than you can these days. That's hoarders for you.

yeah, I've know about it in the past but I never saw any one or trying to book a hotel or flight using expedia.

Quote from: gentlemand on May 01, 2020, 02:32:21 PM

The problem with a lot of travel options with Bitcoin is that they often charge you more. A lot of the flight places in particular are terrible for adding 30-80 dollars or don't have the usual options at all.

I think that is going to be more natural when we're out to see the adoption process, there will be more charges for using crypto consequently of volatility.

Quote from: gentlemand on May 01, 2020, 02:32:21 PM

I see no reason to pay more for the honour of paying with BTC.

I agree, this might be just a good alternative if you don't have any spare cash or you just have bitcoin with you at the moment. If you're rich enough then maybe its not going to hurt your balance.

Quote from: gentlemand on May 01, 2020, 02:32:21 PM

Travala looks about right though. I might investigate further.

I only discover about travala just yesterday, as I browse through web I've read that their platform is completely inspired to Expedia but they added some features which makes it more interesting.

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