Anything to do with the Countryside Alliance?
Not at all. It's a hotel search and booking service.
Another one? That sounds familiar.
Unlike last week's site, laterooms.com, Leisure Hunt lists hotels from all over the world. The blurb on the front claims to recognise "towns and villages worldwide". This is something of an exaggeration, although it does hold true for the US and Britain: the UK has 33,000 listings. As an indication, Leisure Hunt lists five hotels in Warsaw, all of them sizeable and one of them not built from concrete. All the entries are illustrated and have star ratings.
On the other hand...
Only a very small selection of hotels are discounted, and on the days I visited the special offers were confined to British chains. Nor were they particularly cheap - a 15% discount on a three-night stay in Oasis Village Lakeland in Penrith, for example, reduced the price to £277.
Can I book?
That depends on the hotel. Some of them are linked to the SpeedBook network; others have to be contacted individually.
I'm not very excited.
The art of building a successful travel site lies in building up a database and manipulating it successfully. Leisure Hunt has managed the former, but they haven't put much effort into the latter. The result is a flat, lifeless endeavour which, while it functions perfectly adequately, is unlikely to inspire visitors. For purposeful travellers only.