China Eastern vs Hotel Please
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
China Eastern
Book flights and ancillary services for China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines. Offers digital travel services like seat selection, check-in, baggage management, and in-flight internet bookings. Tailored services for overseas users are continuously being added.
- Flight booking
- Ancillary service booking
- Seat selection
- Check-in
- Baggage management
- Flight changes and refunds
- In-flight internet booking
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This APP supports booking flights and ancillary services across the global networks of China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines, and offers a full suite of digital travel services for your journey—including seat selection and check-in, baggage check-in, flight changes, refunds and upgrades, as well as in-flight internet service bookings. Furthermore, we will continue to roll out thoughtful and caring services tailored for our overseas users.
Hotel Please
Discover and book unique boutique hotels with detailed profiles, including history, neighborhood, and amenities. Rate hotels based on specific vibes and create your personal travel bucket list.
- Detailed hotel profiles
- In-app booking
- Vibe-based ratings (medals)
- Hotel bucket list
- Stamping past stays
- City hotel swipe feature
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Find your dream hotel, get to know it inside out, and book it right here. There's just something about a good hotel. The room that got the light right. The bartender who's worked there twenty years and isn't going anywhere. The lobby someone spent years and a fortune on, where you can wander in and order a coffee like you own the place. You check out, and years later you can still walk that hallway in your head. Hotel Please is for those hotels. The grande dames that have been quietly perfect since 1897. The ryokan with eleven rooms. The one in Mexico City a designer clearly lost their mind over, in the best way. The riad you'd fly a long way just to sit in the courtyard of. Every hotel in here got in because someone decided it was worth it. We research each one ourselves, choose the photos, and write it up like it matters, because it does. No hotel pays to be included, and nothing is sponsored. EVERY DETAIL BEFORE YOU GO Every hotel gets a full profile: the rooms, the pool and spa, where to eat and drink, its history and the neighborhood around it. Everything you'd want to know before you get there. BOOK IT RIGHT HERE Pick your dates and see live prices for every room and rate, taxes and fees included, with the cancellation terms spelled out. When you find the one, book it without leaving the app. MEDALS, NOT STARS Every hotel is rated across eight vibes, from gold down to listed: Design, Luxe, Heritage, Local, Wellness, Social, Resort and Classic. A medal only for what a place is genuinely great at, and gold is rare on purpose. One medal a hotel truly earned tells you more than a 4.6 average ever will. YOUR HOTEL BUCKET LIST Heart a hotel the second you hear about it, before you have any excuse to go. KEEP THE ONES YOU'VE STAYED IN Stamp a stay and it's yours. The year, the room, what you thought. Stamps fill up slowly and mean something. SWIPE A CITY Swipe through a city's hotels one at a time. Keep the ones you'd book, and we'll write you a guide from your picks. No ads. No deals near you. Just hotels worth knowing about, in your pocket, for the next time someone asks where to stay.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hotel Please at 100% against China Eastern's 2%. Hotel Please also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.3) and update cadence (daily vs every 6 weeks). China Eastern's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hotel Please holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 2% of China Eastern's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hotel Please's.
China Eastern ships an update every 6 weeks, Hotel Please daily. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | China Eastern | Hotel Please |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 1.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | China Eastern Airlines Co.,LTD. | Ambie, LLC |
Customer experience
China Eastern
Hotel Please
In-app purchases
China Eastern
No in-app purchases
Hotel Please
No in-app purchases
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