[2016-04-17] Hotel Booking Website HotelGo24 Offers User Rewards In Bitcoin

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Hotel Booking Website HotelGo24 Offers User Rewards In Bitcoin

here are many websites that offering lots of varied rewards and booking options when it comes to reserving a hotel at a good price. Some may even accept Bitcoin as a preferred payment. However, the first hotel booking website to offer a cash-back rewards style program with Bitcoin, as well as the option to donate your rewards to charities like Bithope, Wikileaks and The Water Project is Warsaw, Poland-based HotelGo24.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/hotel-booking-website-hotelgo24-offers-user-rewards-in-bitcoin/

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Hotel Booking Website HotelGo24 Offers User Rewards In Bitcoin

here are many websites that offering lots of varied rewards and booking options when it comes to reserving a hotel at a good price. Some may even accept Bitcoin as a preferred payment. However, the first hotel booking website to offer a cash-back rewards style program with Bitcoin, as well as the option to donate your rewards to charities like Bithope, Wikileaks and The Water Project is Warsaw, Poland-based HotelGo24.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/hotel-booking-website-hotelgo24-offers-user-rewards-in-bitcoin/

It is a bit strange that this website gives bitcoins as cash back, but doesn't allow users to book hotel rooms using bitcoins.
Do they actually buy bitcoins which they give to the users?

[richardsNY]

Hotel Booking Website HotelGo24 Offers User Rewards In Bitcoin

here are many websites that offering lots of varied rewards and booking options when it comes to reserving a hotel at a good price. Some may even accept Bitcoin as a preferred payment. However, the first hotel booking website to offer a cash-back rewards style program with Bitcoin, as well as the option to donate your rewards to charities like Bithope, Wikileaks and The Water Project is Warsaw, Poland-based HotelGo24.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/hotel-booking-website-hotelgo24-offers-user-rewards-in-bitcoin/

It is a bit strange that this website gives bitcoins as cash back, but doesn't allow users to book hotel rooms using bitcoins.
Do they actually buy bitcoins which they give to the users?

It's indeed a weird thing that they don't let customers pay in Bitcoin when buying a hotel room, while they give out rewards and cash backs in Bitcoin. They must have some coins stashed up somewhere or they buy coins straight from an exchange and send it directly to their customers.

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It is a bit strange that this website gives bitcoins as cash back, but doesn't allow users to book hotel rooms using bitcoins.
Do they actually buy bitcoins which they give to the users?

The reason is simple. They do not process hotel bookings themselves, but are an affiliate of booking.com. They receive a commission of up to 8% or so (as far as I remember), and will return a portion of that to the person who made the booking. Since they receive their commission as an affiliate in EUR or USD, they obviously have to buy the BTC for the cash-back to their customers somewhere.