Off & Away Expands Hotel Listings, Allows You To Apply Bid Credits Universally

Off & Away, an innovative travel startup that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, is launching a few new features today. Off & Away applies a Swoopo-like auction model to buying hotel rooms online. The site features upscale hotel rooms at rock-bottom prices; Off & Away auctions off each reservation, and other people bid for the same room. To participate you need to buy bids (they?re a dollar apiece); then you can bid as many times as you?d like until time runs out. Once that happens one user will walk away with the cheap hotel price. Everyone else can use the money they?ve put towards bids toward reserving the room at its normal price.

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