Watch Out SF Minibars: We Testdrive Hotel Tonight (TCTV)

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Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Hotel Tonight– an app that allows you to book last-minute hotels easily and quickly via the iPhone which expanded to Chicago, Boston and Washington DC yesterday– is almost identical to the dream company Paul outlined here.

It sounded too good to be true, so we decided to give it a test drive, along with Hotel Tonight CEO Sam Shank. And just to stack the odds against him, we picked a Friday night in San Francisco just before MacWorld.

Video below.

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