Hotel Tonight is bringing its spontaneous room-booking app to the Apple Watch, Business Insider has learned.
The Hotel Tonight app for Apple Watch brings the core functionality of the iPhone app over to your wrist, allowing anyone to quickly browse and book last-minute hotel rooms on the fly.
"What we've done is condensed the Hotel Tonight experience into the form factor of the watch," Hotel Tonight co-founder and CEO Sam Shank told Business Insider. "The idea for the app started a while ago. After the Apple Watch was announced, we had a hackathon the week after, and one of the teams in the hackathon started thinking about how the Hotel Tonight experience would be on the Apple Watch. Once more details were announced, we started building it."
Shank says the idea was to further reduce the friction of booking a hotel room, allowing people to handle everything from their Watch without needing to take out their phone.
"When you open the app, you can see hotels around you, all the information and details about those hotels, and you can then choose the right hotel for you and then book the hotel in just a few seconds," Shank said. "It’s very elegant, very simple, very straightforward."
Like the iPhone version of the app, Hotel Tonight on the Apple Watch will also break things down into three categories — Luxe, Hip, and Standard — allowing you to choose a room that fits your budget.
Here's what browsing and booking a room on the Apple Watch will look like.
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