CheapAir.com Now Taking Bitcoins For Hotel Reservations
It's wasn't terribly long ago (late November, in fact) that CheapAir.com had begun accepting bitcoins for flights. We're now at the start of February, and the company will now begin accepting bitcoins for hotel reservations at over 200,000 properties around the world. The move comes amidst the success of bitcoin flights. CheapAir.com CEO Jeff Klee said that the company has "been really pleasantly surprised by the response," noting that they've made "a lot more" sales paid for with bitcoin than they initially anticipated. The move expands horizons for bitcoin enthusiasts with an interest in....
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Back in November, CheapAir.com began accepting Bitcoin for booking flights after a customer inquired, "Can I pay with Bitcoin for my flight?" This request was forwarded to CheapAir CEO Jeff Klee, and soon, the company adopted Bitcoin payments for flights. Back then, CheapAir.com stated, "For now, we're only accepting Bitcoin for flight bookings made on CheapAir.com. We hope to extend this payment option in the near future to hotels and flights booked via our iOS app." Looks like they meant what they said, because today, CheapAir.com announced that users can now make hotel reservations....
It's been quite a while now since travel website CheapAir.com has started accepting bitcoin. About eight months, in fact. And now, it has been announced that the website has surpassed over $1.5 million in bitcoin revenue. Impressive! The travel site initially started their bitcoin-acceptance program with just flights, and later in February of this year announced they would also be accepting the digital currency for hotel bookings. The $1.5 million in revenue encompasses both airline tickets and hotel reservations purchased by thousands of customers, and will certainly go to show you that....
California-based airfare and hotel booking provider CheapAir.com has announced it is now accepting bitcoin for Amtrak railway reservations completed on its platform. The move is the latest in a broad rollout of bitcoin payments across the company's services, starting with flights in November before continuing to CheapAir's network of 200,000 hotels in February. CheapAir added Amtrak listings to its site in April, but has only just completed the necessary back-end work to accept bitcoin payments for the travel option. Speaking to CoinDesk, CEO Jeff Klee suggested that this measured rollout....
Travel on bitcoin has become a simple reality. Not only can you find a place to stay with bitcoin, but you can also fly, buy gasoline, and eat food purchased with bitcoin. Hotel. If you want to spend the night in a hotel, CheapAir and Expedia offer bitcoin as a payment option. CheapAir uses BitPay and Expedia uses Coinbase to process their bitcoin payments. We have found Expedia more difficult to use because only a portion of their hotels are currently available for bitcoin. On the other hand, CheapAir offers all hotels listed on their site for bitcoin. Gyft.com allows you to buy gift....
California-based travel agency CheapAir.com has announced that it is expanding its service to allow bitcoin users to book hotel stays with the cryptocurrency. CheapAir has been accepting bitcoin for flight bookings since November when it partnered with Coinbase, however until today, users have not been able to pay in bitcoin for its extensive hotel inventory. Speaking to CoinDesk, CEO and founder Jeff Klee voiced his enthusiasm for becoming the "first company in the US" to allow bitcoin users to book hotel stays with the virtual currency: "Bitcoin gets a bad rap in mainstream media. What I....