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Booking.com's Fine Dining Link is the Weirdest One in Online Travel

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Dennis Schaal

Skift Take

There is nothing fine about Booking.com's Fine Dining search. Booking.com should stick a fork in it, and start over.

At first when I saw the Fine Dining Link atop the Booking.com homepage, I thought perhaps it was a test gone awry in anticipation of the closing of the Priceline Group's $2.6 billion acquisition of OpenTable, which should take place in the third quarter. Now that I understand what's going on, I think it is one of the weirdest homepage tabs I've seen by a major online travel company. That's because when you select the Fine Dining tab, there is no information about fine dining. No restaurants, no cafes, no bistros. Nada. Not even a food truck. All you find is hotels. Booking.com spokespe

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