Agoda.com Celebrates the Royal Wedding with Lovely London Rates

SINGAPORE (January 26, 2011) – Agoda.com, Asia’s global hotel booking site and part of Nasdaq-listed priceline.com Inc., today announces special London hotel promotions to celebrate the wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton.

With the date set for April 29, 2011, the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Elizabeth Middleton is cause for much excitement across the British Commonwealth, particularly in the United Kingdom. To best allow Britons to celebrate, the day has been declared a bank holiday and pubs are allowed to stay open until 1am – an hour later than licensing laws usually permit. Prime Minister David Cameron commented, "We want to mark the day as one of national celebration – a public holiday will ensure the most people possible will have a chance to celebrate on the day."

Second in line to the British throne, Prince William met Kate in 2001 at the University of St Andrews, where they both studied Art History. Over the last ten years, their relationship has been closely followed by royalists, pundits, paparazzi, and bookies, who for years have been taking bets on if and when the couple would wed.

Prince Charles – William's father and the heir apparent – recently announced via his Twitter account that the ceremony will take place at Westminster Abbey, an iconic London location. Chosen for its beautiful Gothic architecture and intimate ambience, Westminster has more than a thousand years of history, and is the official site for coronations, with ties to English and British royalty that stretch back to 1066. The cathedral is an important part of England's history in its own right, and is the burial place of many English writers and poets, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens and Lord Tennyson.

On the day of the wedding, spectators in London will be able to catch a glimpse of Kate as she makes her way by car to Westminster along the processional route. This route includes The Mall, Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall and Parliament Square, and is the same path to be taken by the couple after they are married, this time in a horse-drawn carriage.

To help travelers take part in this very special occasion, Agoda.com has secured hotel promotions in several key positions across London. The featured hotels have great access to the processional route, either directly or via London public transport and there's a property to suit every budget. To avoid missing out of one of the biggest events to hit London in recent years, lock in your hotel room now.

Royal Wedding Trivia:
• Sixty per cent of internet sales of official memorabilia come from the United States.
• Prince Charles' Twitter account is @ClarenceHouse.
• After the wedding, the couple will return to the farmhouse they currently share in Anglesey, north Wales.
• The diamond and sapphire engagement ring William gave Kate belonged to his mother, the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
• Kate will have a waxwork model of herself added to the royal family display at Madame Toussaud's.

Agoda Company Pte Ltd (www.agoda.com) is a leading Asia-based, online hotel reservations company, which specializes in securing the lowest discount hotel prices. Agoda.com is part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN). Agoda's network includes more than 150,000 hotels worldwide. The multinational staff of more than 500 professionals, located throughout the world, provides a first-rate reservation service that uniquely combines local knowledge and local connections to provide the best hotel deals to both business and leisure travelers.

In addition, Agoda customers participate in the Agoda Rewards Program, earning further discounts and free stays. Unlike programs that limit travelers to a single chain, the Agoda Rewards Program allows customers to redeem Rewards Points at thousands of hotels around the globe, at any time. A member of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Agoda's aim is to promote travel by making it more affordable and more accessible to more people.

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