OctopusTravel.com is an innovative on-line hotel reservation company offering discounted hotels in over 8,000 destinations, 129 countries worldwide.
OctopusTravel has developed the www.octopustravel.com web site in association with GTA – an established tour operator with more than 30 years in the business. This experience has enabled us to provide a web site with one of the widest selections of hotels on the web. With thousands of bookings handled on a weekly basis, our massive purchasing power allows us to pass on significant savings to our customers.
GTA is part of the Division Destinations in the Kuoni Group, which is one of the world’s leading globally-active leisure and destination management travel organisations, with a worldwide workforce of more than 10,000 (full-time equivalent) employees. The head office of Kuoni Travel Holding Ltd. is in Zurich, Switzerland, where Alfred Kuoni founded the company back in 1906.
The Kuoni Group has steadily and systematically developed its position in the world travel market over the years and today has branch operations in more than 45 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America
Unprecedented attention is given to the customer's selection and purchasing process online. The result is that all our customers experience a simple and quick booking process whilst receiving detailed information to allow informed choices to be made. Furthermore, the web site is able to confirm availability of the customers' selected hotel immediately.
We cater for every budget, from 1 star to 5 stars. Our web site offers popular international chains, small boutique hotels, French chateaux and English manor houses to name a few. We individually negotiate with each hotel we sell, to ensure octopustravel customers receive great rates and there are no hidden extras: all our rates include taxes and service charges and in most European hotels we even include breakfast!
To assist our customers' selection of the hotel best suited to their needs we provide a full list of amenities and an independent report for each hotel. These are written by travel professionals who have personally visited the hotels and they provide an honest and up-to-date appraisal of each property. For most properties we also provide hotel location maps plus interior and exterior photos to avoid any surprises.
Advanced security technology has been built into our web site to ensure optimum security for credit card transactions. The credit card information and personal details of every customer are protected throughout their dealings with us. Our Digital Certificate from Verisign is proof that our site has passed stringent security tests and that all our credit card transactions use Secure Socket Layers (SSL) encryption. Our customers can be assured that the information they send to octopustravel cannot be intercepted or decrypted by anyone else.
octopustravel is a full member of HATA and TIC providing customers with that final and complete peace of mind and assurance that they are dealing with a truly reputable travel company.
We pride ourselves on offering a service that surpasses our customers' expectations. Our Customer Care Centre supports our web site with staff on hand to answer questions by telephone and email, thus providing the human interface that even the most confident of web-shoppers appreciate. We have been in the business long enough to know that not all travel plans run smoothly, which is why our help is only a phone call away.
Travel is one of the largest and fastest growing business on the internet and OctopusTravel will continue to develop and build its brand and business on a global scale. With the launch of our second generation of web sites we are able to offer additional travel services such as airport transfers and sightseeing tours. We will continue to work closely with an increasing number of partners whilst rapidly expanding the number of affiliates who link to our sites.