In Reply to: Agoda v's Asiaroom's posted by zelda on Friday, 17. September 2010 at 18:42 Bali Time:
Hi!
The one time I used asia rooms (Feb 2009) something went wrong with my booking and I got charged twice. Then I had to phone up their call centre where the staff don't seem to be able to speak English very well and explain the situation... it was very difficult, and to begin with, they said it would take up to 3 weeks before I received a refund. To make matters worse, my room wasn't actually booked - so I had been charged twice on my credit card, but had no booking. Not happy. I harangued them enough that I got my refund a week later.
Having said that, a couple of friends of mine have used asia rooms before, and been very happy.
I've used @goda a couple of times before, it was fine, but beware of the taxes - I was booking rooms for Japan and the tax wasn't included, or was tacked on at the end or something. Also make sure you change the currency to your local ($AUD?) to avoid international currency fees on your credit card.
Generally I prefer to use ex pedia where possible, but would probably go for @goda over asia rooms, just because of that one bad experience.