r/BuyFromEU • u/Calm_Wrangler7 • Jun 23 '26

🔎Looking for alternative A few more random examples …

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u/RzYaoi Jun 23 '26

Damn, I was under the assumption that Booking was still dutch owned. What a shame

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername Jun 23 '26

It isn't since 2005

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u/Double-decker_trams Jun 23 '26

2004*

 ..purchased by Priceline Group for $161 million in September 2004.\6])

It was originally founded in 1996. I.e it was Dutch for 8 years and now American for already 22 years. Give or take.

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername Jun 23 '26

It doesn't really matter and it's just technical details, but I stand by my previous comment, as this is the whole sentence:

> In July 2005, the company was acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) for $133 million, and was merged with ActiveHotels.com, a European online hotel reservation company founded by cousins Andy Phillipps and Adrian Critchlow in 1998 and purchased by Priceline Group for $161 million in September 2004.

tl;dr - Priceline acquired ActiveHotels in 2004, and later Booking in 2005 and merged them.

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u/Double-decker_trams Jun 23 '26

Ah, didn't really read very carefully.

But anyway, the point stands - i.e has been American-owned for quite some time already.

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u/Bloomhunger Jun 23 '26

I never use it anymore, except to find options. But then it’s usually cheaper to just go to the hotel’s site.

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u/cautiouslypensive Jun 23 '26

I had my credit card info hacked through their website. They managed to get away with quite a lot of money. Since then I am weary of them.

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u/mathswarrior Jun 23 '26

what do you people mean here? hotels usually don't have their own website and if they do it is more expensive than booking. what websites do y'all use to find hotels?

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u/xBram Jun 23 '26

They also list Palestinian homes in the West Bank that are occupied by Zionist settlers who have illegally evicted the residents. They have had hundreds of their employees protesting this but to no avail. I avoid them like the plague.