GalaHotels.com (brand and wholly owned subsidiary of LEONAR-DO REZERVASYON VE TURIZM SANAYI LTD.ST and BERLEON TRAVEL LIMITED) has been operating since 1994 and offers the best choice of discount hotels throughout Asia, Oceania, Europe, Americas, Caribbean and Africa with over 100 000 hotels. Our aim is to give you a quick, easy and secure way to make your reservations online with great savings. Besides this we also provide a professional customer service. Our customer service agents are there for you to handle all your booking related inquiries and requests. Special Internet Discount Rates Our special internet discount rates help you to save your money. Because of the large number of lodging reservations we process, we are able to negotiate special rates with the properties. We guarantee our special internet rates are the lowest you can find. To secure your reservation at this low rate, we require up-front payment with your credit card. This ensures you have a room when you arrive and you will not be "Bumped" or "Overbooked." Booking a room marked as a special internet rate gives you both savings and security. You cannot beat that! Security Advanced security technology has been built into our web site to ensure optimum security for credit card transactions. The credit card information and personal details of every customer are protected throughout the transactions. Our digital certification from Thawte proofs that our site has passed the strictest security tests and that all our credit card transactions use Secure Socket Layers (SSL) encryption. This means that all the information sent to GalaHotels.com during a booking cannot be intercepted or decrypted by anyone else. Professional Customer Care We pride ourselves on offering a service that surpasses our customers" expectations. Our Customer Care Center supports our web site with staff on hand to answer questions by email, thus providing the human interface that even the most confident of web-shoppers appreciate. The Future Travel is the largest and fastest growing business on the internet and GalaHotels.com will continue to develop and build its service and business on a global scale. We will continue to work closely with an increasing number of new partners whilst rapidly expanding the number of affiliates who link to our sites. By opening new offices we can spread the excellent reputation that we have established to new markets worldwide.