Available on both iOS (iPhone, iPad and iTouch) and Android platforms – with a tablet-specific version on its way – Blink Booking offers customers anything up to 40% off the best hotel rates available online.  Those offers are available in over 50 cities across seven European countries and at over 700 hotels in total. It is available to travellers from anywhere around the world.

Blink Booking’s offer is simple: every day at 11.00 am, Blink selects the four best hotels (based on a combination of price and location) in each city and those hotels go live to the application – meaning that hotels compete to offer the best rates to appear in the application.

Travellers in need of a room can book there and then, getting ridiculously good rates by booking “last second”. Hotels are offered at a discount to almost every other online travel agent.

The app currently has hotels in eight UK cities (London, Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester) with more coming online all the time.

The business is backed by, amongst others, Brent Hoberman’s PROFounders, and already has over 200,000 users across Europe.

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