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How the Google Travel UI made it easier to decide between hotels
Specific use case of hotels in Johor Bahru, Malaysia (Nov 2024)
3 min readApr 6, 2025
Many suffer from decision paralysis when it comes to travel bookings. But most can agree that cleanliness is mostly a non-negotiable when it comes to paying for living conditions. If one can pay to be in a clean, comfortable place, there are plenty of reasons to do so.
Google Travel — Hotels UI
Hotels is a specific tab under Google Travel that provides more information than just the ordinary Google maps/ reviews page. For instance, price history trends is only available under Travel rather than the maps UI)
Reviews
Insights from reviews
Aggregation and abstraction of tags based on particular keywords helps individuals sift through numerous reviews quickly instead of reading each review individually.
