Bahia Resort Hotel

San Diego is a lovely place to take the family with the beaches and access to places like Sea World, Disneyland, Lego Land, all the zoo’s and much more. Here in Utah the schools have time off for UEA (Utah Education Association), however it’s also been called Utahan’s Entering Anaheim as so many people invade California’s hot spots during this time.

I shopped around a lot and there are many great places in and near San Diego but we finally chose the Bahia Resort Hotel for many reasons.
The first is that it’s a hop, skip and a jump away from Sea World which is our primary target for this sortie.
The Bahia also has it’s own beach and pool and has many attractions for the kids.

I’m hoping that the Bahia hotel doesn’t need a face-lift as bad as their web site does. Their site at first glance seems professionally done, but after a few minutes of using the site you can become frustrated with the navigation. I just come away with the feeling of not ever really finding what I was looking for and once I did find something I couldn’t find how to get back to that spot easily.

The days of the Flash intro have come and gone. There is no sense of wasting a click with a time and bandwidth sucking Flash intro that provides me no real data. The site needs a complete overhaul from the code to graphics and layout to the whole structure of the site. So many travel web sites forget what people want to see. We want to kick the proverbial tires a bit. Give us a great photo gallery. Every hotel should have a link with possibly one or two shots from their main page. We want to see what the rooms look like in greater detail, let us see every angle of the pool. This is one of the major ways many people choose a site or a place to stay. What does it look like. Many times we hundreds if not thousands of miles away and we need some visual assurance that if we lay down our hard earned cash that we’re going to get something of value for it.

Now this doesn’t mean some gaudy and in your face Flash movie from the beginning. It means spend the time and money to get a professional image gallery created as this is what draws people to your site and business.

As I said, we looked around for many different deals and finally went withhttp://www.getawaytoday.com/. They were cheaper on many of the hotels than their own sites with better deals. I would recommend them to friend and foe.

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