Smart People Gosimply - Value Added Services for Travellers
Gosimply provide value added services for travellers. These include airport parking, airport hotels, airport lounges and worldwide car hire. They work in close partnership with industry leaders to present travellers with an excellent online comparison facility that has been recognised and endorsed by The Mail on Sunday, The Independent and The Times.
The company began its life back in 2004 using the name ‘Simply Extras’. Tim Hagger and James Burrows had worked together for some years in the travel and leisure industry. They had become aware that travellers wanted a quick and easy way to compare prices and facilities for airport car parking without having to trawl through multiple websites. They presented themselves with the challenge of providing a facility that made it simple to find, sort and compare details of airport car parking facilities.
Their online facility, which enabled travellers to quickly view comprehensive car parking details for all UK airports, quickly attracted respect and recognition from customers and professionals in the travel industry. The innovative website, that enabled customers to compare prices and facilities, at a glance, and then book online, was soon receiving praise and endorsement from the travel industry and the national press.
The unique, customer-centred approach was clearly popular with travellers and so Simply Extras used the same principles to develop additional comparison and online booking facilities. They extended their product portfolio to include an online booking facility for UK airport hotels, airport lounges and even the facility to book car-hire almost anywhere in the world.
Gosimply came about as a result of rebranding Simply Extras in 2008. This was carried out in order to pull all of the independent web sites into one central site: Gosimply.com. Gosimply are very much a customer-centred business with a focus upon ease of use, providing customers with what they want in a user-friendly manner and getting the best prices.
Gosimply constantly gather feedback from clients who have used their services. These impartial reviews and feedback are boldly published from their site without being edited. This information is clearly appreciated by customers who like the openness, honesty and impartiality of the information provided by users of their services.
A good example of the value added service provided by Gosimply is their Heathrow Airport Hotels page. Visitors are immediately presented with a useful map detailing exactly where each of the 25 Heathrow hotels are located. Gosimply have then gone to the trouble of assessing the various hotels and providing some useful recommendations for budget hotels, hotels for business, hotels for leisure and luxury hotels. They then go on to provide travellers with some genuinely useful money-saving suggestions. Their value-added service provides site visitors with an abundance of exceptionally useful information at no cost. The search and book form is as simple as possible and their unique ‘at a glance’ facility makes it easy to carry out side-by-side comparisons of the facilities provided by all 25 hotels serving Heathrow Airport.
The Gosimply.com website now provides a unique portal where travellers can compare the detailed facilities and prices of a range of services, read numerous impartial reviews and then book online with confidence. They know that they are getting the best prices available and that the service they will receive will be the best available.
By Tony Gee
