Features and Updates on the World's Encyclopedia of Hotel Rooms HoboHideout.com

December 24, 2007

Finding Your Way Around HoboHideout.com

HoboHideout.com is built on a global scale. We’ve been making it easier for you to navigate around the five million plus cities across the world.

Users in the United States can now navigate to a city through an alphabetical list of options. The drill down is based on the first three characters of a city name.

For example, the alphabets ‘NEW’ are the first three alphabets of the city name New York. To drill down to the city of New York from the United States level, look for the “Navigate to a City”. Once there:

- click N
- click NE
- click NEW



The NEW alphabetical ordered list displays a list of cities from the United States. These cities begin with the alphabets NEW.

State and county names are displayed to the left of the city. Click on the city that best matches the city you are looking for.

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December 7, 2007

Find Hotels in your Country Instantly

Find Hotels in your Country Instantly

Finding hotels and navigating to your country is easy on HoboHideout.com

To instantly get to your country, enter hobohideout.com followed by your country name in the browser’s address bar area.

Example:

To find hotels or accommodations in Italy, enter:

hobohideout.com/italy

A few other examples:

Hotels or accommodations in Spain:
hobohideout.com/spain

Hotels in Cyprus:
hobohideout.com/cyprus

Hotels or accommodations in Singapore:
hobohideout.com/singapore

Submitted hotels, accommodations and maps will be listed under the country and city they were submitted to.

We're in the process of beta testing the hotel reservation system. Our online hotel reservation system will enable users to reserve hotel rooms anytime, anywhere, right here on HoboHideout.com

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Submission Process, Auto complete City Names

Submission Process, Auto complete City Names

If you are a hotel owner, the first step is to get listed on HoboHideout.com (signup and submit your hotel).

The signup process is fast and we’ve streamlined the process in five easy steps.

In this post, we will talk about the step two auto complete feature for city names. Our submission process will auto complete the city name for you. Enter the first few characters of the city name and select your city from the dropdown menu.

In the example below a hotel owner from Thailand, Bangkok is submitting his hotel.

Once submitted, the hotel will appear in the following locations:
Thailand and Bangkok



If the auto complete menu does not appear at all, be sure to check that you've installed the latest version of Internet Explorer or Firefox. We’ve successfully tested the auto complete on Internet Explorer version 6, 7, Firefox version 2.0 and the Opera browser.

Contact us if you run into a problem.

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