I just tried Dockwa and MarinaLife today. We plan to go to Mystic, Ct sometime in the next few weeks to use my free Brewers Preferred Card. So I entered Mystic into Dockwa and only found one marina close in and it wasn't Brewers.
Then I tried MarinaLife. Surprise, Brewers was listed and it was a partner marina. One other was listed that was inside. Lots of others were listed but they didn't have a reservation button, so those were just hopefuls.
I didn't make a reservation at Brewers as I suspect MarinaLife couldn't handle my free Brewers card.
So, it was interesting to try. There are definitely some differences between marina dock space booking and hotels and airlines: The booking commission for hotels and airlines is much less on both than the 30% that Jeff talks about, and I have a hard time believing that Brewers would pay 30% to MarinaLife for a dock reservation.
Virtually all airlines are represented in the major travel booking sites. For hotels it is more like marinas but with much more hotels represented. And if one hotel is listed on a travel site, it almost surely is listed on the others, unlike marinas, at least in my limited test.
But I like it and will try it again sometime when I am actually paying. It beats calling and never getting a call back from the marina, and it isn't because they had no space. Lazy and stupid is more like it!
David
Then I tried MarinaLife. Surprise, Brewers was listed and it was a partner marina. One other was listed that was inside. Lots of others were listed but they didn't have a reservation button, so those were just hopefuls.
I didn't make a reservation at Brewers as I suspect MarinaLife couldn't handle my free Brewers card.
So, it was interesting to try. There are definitely some differences between marina dock space booking and hotels and airlines: The booking commission for hotels and airlines is much less on both than the 30% that Jeff talks about, and I have a hard time believing that Brewers would pay 30% to MarinaLife for a dock reservation.
Virtually all airlines are represented in the major travel booking sites. For hotels it is more like marinas but with much more hotels represented. And if one hotel is listed on a travel site, it almost surely is listed on the others, unlike marinas, at least in my limited test.
But I like it and will try it again sometime when I am actually paying. It beats calling and never getting a call back from the marina, and it isn't because they had no space. Lazy and stupid is more like it!
David
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