willun

I use booking.com to find available rooms and then call the hotel/place directly or just turn up. Works really well and saves the hotel the fee. When travelling we often find a place for that night. There is almost always space and we stay at some great places. I didn’t know the fee was high as 20% but for a small place that makes sense.

Steve Wozniak singlehandedly created the Apple I. He was not closely involved in the Mac.

Public transport is a key part of dealing with climate change however it requires the design of cities around public transport. This needs to happen. We need to redesign and optimise our cities.

However it is unfair to say

being only fractionally more environmentally friendly

As most studies agree that

EVs are responsible for considerably lower emissions over their lifetime than conventional (internal combustion engine) vehicles across Europe as a whole.

EVs perform even better if the grid is low carbon. A solar grid requires batteries to perform well and of course EVs have batteries. So there is a natural synergy between the two.

So we do need public transport but we also need more EVs and infrastructure to support those EVs. We need the public transport to be electricity based, such as electric buses and trains.

We don't say checkmate. Usually it is Gotcha, ya slimy little bastard.

The small ones always match the best deal or lower but even if they are they are the same as Booking.com I don’t mind. Occasionally they tell me a price higher but quickly match.

I guess the 20% is to fund their free nights after seven stays discounts. Pushing that cost to the hotels.