Mobile users get hotel booking service

The deal means business and leisure travellers can find and book accommodation on the move via their mobile devices.

Users can select from a regularly updated list of more than 3,500 hotels across the UK.

Active Hotels’ complete European inventory of over 11,000 hotels is set to be made available on Reporo over the coming months.

A search function allows users to find a wide selection of hotels within a specified radius of their chosen location or simply search by hotel name. 

In addition, full hotel information is displayed, including a photo of the hotel, a description of amenities and maps to help find the hotel.

Reporo links directly with the live inventory on the Active Hotels server which only displays hotels where rooms are actually available.

The Reporo service can be used across multiple operator networks, including O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin and Vodafone.  This means that anyone with a Reporo-enabled GPRS phone can use the Reporo service, regardless of which network provides their mobile phone access.

In order to join, users can visit www.reporo.com to register their details.  During the initial registration process credit card details are input once online and any subsequent purchases via mobile are authorised by a personal four-digit PIN which is known only to the user.

Within seconds of completing registration, users receive a text message containing the Reporo software, and once downloaded they can use the service immediately.