https://www.destinia.co.uk

[dmz241]

Expedia was smooth and loved it. But after their termination of accepting bitcoins as with all merchants of coinbase I was looking for alternate. I asked around but there wasent much information so I tried these guys.
Pros:
They are very responsive and you will here from them within 24 hours. And you can also call them.

They accept bitcoin for everything from hotels to cars to tickets I believe.

Cons:

Website is not too robust when booking with btc.

Only accepted through bitpay.

Double confirmation required.

So first I had problems with booking as the website would get stuck on loading. I tried the next day and everything moved forward from fetching prices in btc to booking. I booked a hotel in turkey. Hotel pricing was pretty much the same as what I found on other sites. After booking, I got a confirmation email from destinia with a personal agent who was assigned to me within 30 mins and was provided a ref numbe. To check and not be stuck at when went on my tripe, I emailed the hotel to confirm. After not receiving an email I contacted the hotel via phone the next day and was informed that there was no booking under my name. To this I decided to email and then call destinia. On the phone I was informed it takes some time and they have emailed the hotel for confirmation so I will be informed. No time frame was given so I thought I was basically scammed.  However the 3rd day I was sent another email by Destinia confirming my internal hotel ref numbers. I called the hotel again they confirmed they had the reservation. I successfully checked in and checked out without any issues.

[1Referee]

Do they require double confirmations on all transactions or just the higher ones? As far as I know merchants using BitPay can manually adjust the number of confirmations per x amount. I know that when it concerns higher value transactions BitPay by default only subjects merchants to 1 confirmation, where everything else is manually set by the merchant itself. I'm sure that with enough demand they can lower it to just 1 confirmation, but we don't know how confident they are in Bitcoin to do that.

Downside of BitPay is that they charge a ridiculous extra fee. It's not ridiculous as per its value, but more that they find it necessary to charge it. I'm sure Roger has something to do with this.

[buwaytress]

Thanks for the short review, I'm always collecting merchants that accept Bitcoin. At the moment I have a healthy amount of transactions that I already use Bitcoin for and am quite pleased personally that my family is pretty much spending in Bitcoin at least twice a week. Have yet to fully spend Bitcoin on travel so will add this to my "to-do" to check out.

Downside of BitPay is that they charge a ridiculous extra fee. It's not ridiculous as per its value, but more that they find it necessary to charge it. I'm sure Roger has something to do with this.

I'm unfortunately forced to use BitPay quite a lot now (some of my most used merchants are stuck on it) and I definitely agree with their nonsense "fee". I get that they want to charge something for their so-called utxo sweeping, but even today's fee is more than 8 times the miner fee I paid. They're just using a poor excuse for making free coins.

I also really hate that optimal sat/byte fees makes Bitpay say the tx may not confirm, it's caused one order get refunded, even though it took an hour to confirm (wasn't my fault blocks weren't being found for 30 mins... Just everything about BitPay sucks and smacks of corporate ridiculousness.

[dmz241]

Do they require double confirmations on all transactions or just the higher ones? As far as I know merchants using BitPay can manually adjust the number of confirmations per x amount. I know that when it concerns higher value transactions BitPay by default only subjects merchants to 1 confirmation, where everything else is manually set by the merchant itself. I'm sure that with enough demand they can lower it to just 1 confirmation, but we don't know how confident they are in Bitcoin to do that.

Downside of BitPay is that they charge a ridiculous extra fee. It's not ridiculous as per its value, but more that they find it necessary to charge it. I'm sure Roger has something to do with this.

Just need to make it clear. By double confirmation I meant double confirm with where you booked. Like I had to double confirm with hotel.

[buwaytress]

Do they require double confirmations on all transactions or just the higher ones? As far as I know merchants using BitPay can manually adjust the number of confirmations per x amount. I know that when it concerns higher value transactions BitPay by default only subjects merchants to 1 confirmation, where everything else is manually set by the merchant itself. I'm sure that with enough demand they can lower it to just 1 confirmation, but we don't know how confident they are in Bitcoin to do that.

Downside of BitPay is that they charge a ridiculous extra fee. It's not ridiculous as per its value, but more that they find it necessary to charge it. I'm sure Roger has something to do with this.

Just need to make it clear. By double confirmation I meant double confirm with where you booked. Like I had to double confirm with hotel.

Ah, not double confirm on Bitpay then, makes sense since all the Bitpay merchants I've used confirm the order after 1 confirmation or even some with 0 as long as that "miner fee" is deemed enough not to trigger that refund issue.

Confirming with the hotel again, how does that work though? Doesn't the merchant already receive the paid invoice when you pay through BitPay? Seems like a really unnecessary hassle to have to contact the hotel again.

[dmz241]

Do they require double confirmations on all transactions or just the higher ones? As far as I know merchants using BitPay can manually adjust the number of confirmations per x amount. I know that when it concerns higher value transactions BitPay by default only subjects merchants to 1 confirmation, where everything else is manually set by the merchant itself. I'm sure that with enough demand they can lower it to just 1 confirmation, but we don't know how confident they are in Bitcoin to do that.

Downside of BitPay is that they charge a ridiculous extra fee. It's not ridiculous as per its value, but more that they find it necessary to charge it. I'm sure Roger has something to do with this.

Just need to make it clear. By double confirmation I meant double confirm with where you booked. Like I had to double confirm with hotel.

Ah, not double confirm on Bitpay then, makes sense since all the Bitpay merchants I've used confirm the order after 1 confirmation or even some with 0 as long as that "miner fee" is deemed enough not to trigger that refund issue.

Confirming with the hotel again, how does that work though? Doesn't the merchant already receive the paid invoice when you pay through BitPay? Seems like a really unnecessary hassle to have to contact the hotel again.

Exactly I read same issue with another person. What I basically did was lookup the hotel website and called them to confirm it. You can try emailing them also (in my case even it being a 5 star hotel they didnt respond back to the email so its better to call. If there is no confirmation then just contact destinia which is what I did and they resolved it.