Tariffs by room name not by room type
Vince Wooll
Dear Vince,
Having the limitation of creating just one tariff per room type doesn't make the whole procedure very flexible.
Tariffs should be created by room name.
A real life example:
A hotel offers rooms, all of them identical, except of that some have view to the sea and some to the garden. The ones with view to the sea cost more than the others, so there must be two different tariffs, one for rooms with sea view and one for rooms with garden view.
In the above situation you can not create two different tariffs based on room type, you can create just one (that's the problem).
One may say that you could create two different room types and then create one room name for each room type. But if you do that, then what is the point of having room types and room names. That can only confuse users, not to mention that room types have no meaning any more.
I can give many more examples but I believe I made my point.
Thank you
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yubi
I also agree to match tariff with room types... one feature to maybe consider, that would be ideal for us ;) would be to be able to match a tariff not only to one room type, but to be able to match it with more than one room type... for example... here a lot of prices are per person and for that are packages as B&B, Full Board, Half Board and so on... and those packages (or tariff) keep the same regardless of the room type... so we have Full Board packages that apply to double, triple and family room types equally in all those cases...
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Charlie Mason
I’m confused by your statement because what you deciding isn’t a tariff. At best it’s a tax on seaside unit but your right, that is exactly why you have room types. This is also the way GDS systems work, and what you described is a room type with an extra “fee” for having being seaside or another “room type”.
Can you explain why it shouldn’t be another room type?
Vince Wooll
Charlie Mason: This post is a copy of somebody else's post on Github. GH doesn't get much use because it's laborious to register on and use, and I want real world users to get involved, not just developers/technical people.
I put it here because I want more people to get involved in the conversation because registering here is dead easy, in comparison.
Personally, I think that there are a number of ways to skin this particular cat. You can have a room type Double w/ Sea View, for example. Or, as you said you can have Doubles and add an extra "Sea view" but that is, in my mind less ideal because a Double with a Sea View might not be available on the date requested.
I'll never please everybody all of the time, but to date the concept of assigning tariffs to room types instead of individual rooms has worked well so far. That does NOT mean however that it should always stay the same, perhaps it needs to be revisited therefore discussion needs to be had.
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Charlie Mason
Vince Wooll: I completely agree with you Vince, tariffs applies to room type and not a individual rooms. Going with individual rooms would be a recipe for disaster, as tariffs, are taxes and as far as my experience has been, applies to all rooms, regardless of type. Plus having them individually means updating each one could allow for missing a room or two, which is a problem.