- Google’s latest feature can be a big win for summer trips
- As with flights, you can now track prices and set Alarms for hotels
- Google Maps can now also draw potential places to visit from screenshots
If you are a fan of Google Fly, especially for the price tracking data and how the current prices you see rank towards other days, you’re in treats. As part of a drop features that fit upcoming summer travel, Google aims to do for hotels what is done for flights.
And yes, it’s as good as it sounds. Now, when you search for hotels on Google, you have the opportunity to ask the search giant to track prices. In essence, you turn on the function and then get a warning if there is a price drop.
Similar to flights, you can be a little descriptive, set a price range or a ‘don’t bother me if it doesn’t fall’ here. It will even be part of a star assessment if you have a selected one and the general area where you were looking for a hotel.
Google rolls this new hotel price tracking feature globally on desktop and mobile. When available, you will find it right in search that complements the historical knowledge of hotel prices.
This hotel -focused feature will be launched along with another new functionality from Google, all invoiced to get ready for summer trips. The ability to create pricing alarms for hotels is arguably the most user -friendly feature and can have the most significant influence. It can potentially help you save on a stay.
Another new feature that can help you prepare you better for a trip is Screenshot -Support within Google Maps. If you activate it, Google Maps will look through photos and provide a list of places you have screenshotted.
So if you have screenshotting tikx about the best places to eat in New York City or maybe a list of the best ice cream pitches in Boston, you don’t have to dig through them all to find any place mentioned.
Instead of with some AI help, Google Maps will look through your screens, find these stains and indicate them well on a practical list for you. It lives in the app on a list entitled “Screenshots” and this feature is completely optional.
This feature may prove to be useful, but given that screens are not only used for travel or remembering specific places, this can also be a bit of a privacy problem.
It’s only opt-in and not by default, but it is now being rolled out for mobile devices with us English on iOS first, with Android after a short time.
