Booking Phuket Hotels with Agoda

Over the 4 years since starting my Jamie's Phuket blog, I have tried a quite a few online hotel booking sites, signed up for "affiliate" deals, seen the results, tried new sites... the original idea was to have several different booking options for the hotels reviewed on Jamie's Phuket, giving people the opportunity to check rates at a bunch of different sites. Most regular travelers will surely have their own preferred booking website and I don't want to argue which is best, but I must say that over the last couple of years the Agoda.com site has got neater, the hotel descriptions better, the booking process easier. Certainly worth a look.

Agoda is part of a larger company that also included Precision Reservations and Planet Holiday. The Agoda brand name is getting well known especially around Asia - Agoda is based in Singapore and Bangkok. The word "Agoda" you might expect to mean something profound in Chinese or Thai.. actually it's simply a result (according to the About Agoda page on their site) of an offhand phrase suggested by someone working at Agoda "Agoda where I wanna go to!". Imagine someone saying "I go there" in a silly voice and you might get it! The important part of the word being "GO"! For more about Agoda, check their FAQ.



Agoda offers a very nice reward program for booking with them. From your first booking you can get reward points worth around 5% of the room price. You can then use these reward points to reduce the price of the room you are booking, or you can let the points mount up after several bookings and use them to get even bigger savings, or even free rooms! You decide. A friend here in Phuket said he ended up with a free room on his last trip to Kuala Lumpur, having saved up his reward points. You can earn extra points by contributing a hotel review (yes, good or bad!) after your stay. You should also check the special offers page for discounts, free nights etc.



The Agoda site is available in many languages, not just English - for example you can find Agoda in French, German, Thai, Japanese, Swedish, Chinese, Russian .. and many more, reflecting the worldwide appeal of Agoda. Not just Thailand, not just Asia, but Worldwide. The site is very easy to use, easy to navigate, it's easy to find rates, easy to make bookings. I'd suggest checking Agoda for your trip to Phuket and all over Thailand.

Related pages on Jamie's Phuket Blog:

• My Phuket Hotel Recommendations
• LateStays.com - for Late Booking Deals