"I had been checking the Web site, and the hotel had changed two times," said Kambiz Rahnavardy, 32, of Newport Beach.
Food and drink served in hotel bars has changed recently, going far beyond old standbys like Buffalo chicken wings.
What was an incredible deal, which included construction of the restaurant at the Palace Hotel and an annual rent of no more than $750,000, has floundered because hotel management has changed, and the union, under whose control Le Cirque's more than 150 employees work, has been uncooperative and expensive, according to Mr. Maccioni.
For all the debate about which Web sites have the best model for reliable reviews — paid or unpaid, anonymous or real name, Angie's List or Yelp or TripAdvisor — one thing is certain: a robust ecosystem exists online for restaurant and hotel reviews that has changed those industries for the better.
The company tackles this problem with technology that looks at "millions" of data points across the Web to determine a hotel's real market value, taking into account things like location, star-rating, comparable offers, and most crucially, how that hotel's pricing has changed over time.
To tackle this, DealAngel's technology looks at "millions" of data points across the Web to determine a hotel's real market value, taking into account things like location, star-rating, comparable offers, and most crucially, how that hotel's pricing has changed over time.
