LateRooms.com

LateRooms.com
Headquarters The Peninsula Building, Manchester, United Kingdom
No. of locations Manchester, London, Curitiba
Industry Travel
Products Hotels and accommodation
Parent Cox & Kings
Slogan(s) Make it Happen. Make it LateRooms.com
Website laterooms.com
Available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Launched 1999

LateRooms.com is a hotel reservations website providing discounted accommodation throughout the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.

LateRooms.com's website reports that it offers a choice of over 150,000 hotels.[1]

Company history

LateRooms.com was launched in Salford, Greater Manchester, in 1999 by brothers Steven, Paul and Tony Walsh. The site originally started as a simple directory listing hotels, but in 2002 moved to enable users to book hotels online (some hotels require a telephone booking through LateRooms.com). In December 2006, the company was bought by First Choice Holidays plc in a deal worth between £108 million and £120 million.[2] September 2007 saw First Choice Holidays plc merge with TUI Travel plc to form the TUI Travel Group.[3]

In 2010 LateRooms.com moved to a new head office at The Peninsula building in Manchester, along with sister companies AsiaRooms.com and Hotels-London.co.uk.[4]

In May 2015 TUI announced a restructure of all of its brands and that Laterooms would be sold off [5]

In October 2015, Cox & Kings acquired LateRooms.com for Rs.85 crore[6]

References

  1. ↑ "LateRooms.com". LateRooms.com. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
  2. ↑ "First Choice buys LateRooms". Reuters (23 December 2006). 23 December 2006. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Simon, Lambert. "Tui and First Choice to merge". This Is Money (19 March 2007). Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "Laterooms checks in to Peninsula". Place North West (22 July 2010). Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  5. ↑ http://www.ttgdigital.com/news/tui-to-sell-off-laterooms/4696153.article
  6. ↑ "Cox & Kings buys LateRooms for Rs. 85 crore". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 14 October 2015.

External links

http://www.ttgdigital.com/news/tui-to-sell-off-laterooms/4696153.article

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