Ecosystem Updates
Tratok Now Watches the Price After You Have Booked
If your stay gets cheaper before you travel, Tratok works out whether rebooking leaves you better off, and tells you. Plus a way for a whole group to vote on a trip and book it together.
Booking something and then watching the price fall is one of the small, particular miseries of modern travel. Many platforms do not mention it when the price drops.
We think that is the wrong way round. If you would be better off, you should be told, even though it means undoing a booking we already have.
Price drop rebooking
After you book a stay, Tratok keeps checking what that same room, on those same dates, for those same guests, would cost now. If it falls far enough that cancelling and rebooking would genuinely leave you ahead, after the refund you would actually receive, an offer appears on your booking.
The offer states the saving in plain figures. If you take it, the cancellation and the new booking happen together as a single step, and the price is checked once more at the last moment so the saving you were shown is the saving you get. If the price has moved against you in the meantime, it stops rather than proceeding.
You can also ask Tara to list any offers waiting for you.
A group can vote on a trip, then book it
The second half of this batch is for travelling with other people, and specifically for a TRATernity.
Somebody proposes booking a stay for a group trip. Everyone going gets a vote, and once half of them agree, it can be booked for the whole group. Votes run for three days, so a decision does not sit open forever waiting on one person.
When it goes ahead, the booking is made once, and the cost is split evenly across everybody on the trip automatically. The person who did the booking has their own share waived, which seems only fair given they did the work.
Why both of these exist
They come from the same idea. The awkward parts of travelling are rarely the travelling. They are the money conversations: the one where you find out you overpaid, and the one where six people try to agree on a booking and somebody ends up out of pocket.
Both are being rolled out gradually rather than switched on for everyone at once, so keep an eye on your bookings and your group trips.
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