200,000 Hotels Now Accept Bitcoin Through Online Travel Agency CheapAir
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....
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Digital currency enthusiasts browsing for cheap plane tickets and/or hotel bookings on the popular website Cheapair.com were greeted with a surprise today: Cheapair now accepts Litecoin and Dogecoin. Cheapair has partnered with GoCoin, currently the most established Litecoin and Dogecoin payment processor in the world. Litecoin and Dogecoin users around the world now have two options for booking planes and hotels online using their favorite cryptocurrency, whether that may be Bitcoin, Dogecoin, or Litecoin. Cheapair is a privately owned online travel agency that is based in California.....
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....
This is a major step forward for the cryptocurrency market. We need merchants to accept the currency for it to have staying power. CheapAir.com has taken the leap and it feels like the first time I booked on Priceline 15 years ago. The buzz is so exciting and it feels much like when the internet became mainstream. From the CheapAir.com Website: http://www.cheapair.com/blog/travel-news/book-your-flights-on-cheapair-with-bitcoin-virtual-currency/. We are excited to announce that we're the first online travel agency in the world to accept Bitcoin, an entirely digital currency, as a method of....
Let's go ahead and add this one to the "awesome" list of websites out there. CheapAir.com is a travel website that allows users to purchase airline tickets, hotels, and so forth (like Priceline and Orbitz - you get the picture). And yes, the digital currency can be used to buy airline tickets. It's one of the first of its kind in the book-your-own-travel industry, and it's certainly one of the best ways I can personally think of spending your Bitcoins. The caveat? This site will only accept Bitcoin from users in the United States and Canada. But for now, this is a nice standard to set for....
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....