Having floor plans available is a great idea! Unfortunately, I searched a few hotels, but was unable to find any. Do you have any example hotels, or am I not looking at the right place on the website?
Sure, here's the Omni California Hotel (https://www.room77.com/hotel-los-angeles-omni-los-angeles-ho...). We rank the rooms based on preferences that you set with the radio buttons at the top and we generate the views automatically using Google Earth technology. We recently added in the ability to look multiple directions from a room and see a stitched 180-degree version.
We have about 3,000 hotels for which we have floor plans and views for mostly in the US and over 16,000 that have unique "Insider Tips" about what rooms are best in a hotel. We search 200,000+ hotels so that content is a bit hard to find right now and we're working on exposing it more. We continue to add more content daily.
I love it! One thing I would like to see before booking a room are dated panoramic images of a typical room, so you have some idea of what to expect. It's not an easy problem though, since each room is different, and someone has to update all the info and verify. The layout and "Our Take" sections are awesome though.
We tried to do that early on and the problem we ran into was that as a metasearch, we're sourcing in rooms from many different sellers and each one likes to name their room selection something different. You add to this that some rates are "flexible" and you could actually get one of several types of rooms and we run into a matching problem.
Today, travelers can pick their seats on a flight or pick their cabin on a cruise but yet you're still not able to pick a hotel room for various reasons. If the industry moves to support this model, we'll be there with our room data ready and willing to integrate.
