I'm a little confused by the option for finding accommodation along a route. The symbol ££££ suggests to me more expensive hotels than just a single £, but in the area I'm looking at (Puglia, Italy) some fairly low-cost hotels only appear when the ££££ is selected. But some pricier ones appear when ££ is selected.
On an associated issue, all the hotels link direct to Booking.com (which I already use quite a lot) - do you get commission per click from them, or from the hotels? I'm intrigued, but maybe you aren't able to say!
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There’s a modest amount of commission – not enough for anyone to get rich but just enough to pay the server bills for cycle.travel!
Most of the hotels are indeed from booking.com but there’s a few from other sources. I’m planning to add a facility for hotel owners to list themselves too. The price indexing data tends to be a bit erratic as you’ve spotted (booking.com severely locked down the amount of data they give to partners last year, which has made it tricky) but it’s on my list to look at shortly.