{"id":214,"date":"2006-11-25T23:16:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T07:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T18:02:18","slug":"thalysmobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/214\/","title":{"rendered":"Thalys.mobi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\" Thalys.mobi Image \" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/thalys.png\" alt=\" Thalys.mobi Image \" width=\"184\" height=\"229\"\/><em>Thalys International<\/em>, which provides high speed rail service between <span class=\"mauve\">Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne<\/span> and Paris, now has a mobile site, <a href=\"http:\/\/thalys.mobi\">thalys.mobi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile edition offers schedule and fare lookups and contact numbers. The two main functions, <em>Schedules <\/em>and <em>Fares <\/em>are very similar and use a &#8220;wizard&#8221; interface. On the first screen you choose your start point from a drop down and click <em>Next<\/em>. A second screen prompts for destination station and for travel date and time which both default to current. Results are on a third screen. The wizard interface is intuitive and works well for this sort of data entry.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately. Thalys.mobi has a couple of completely unnecessary and annoying usability issues.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To find the price of your trip you have to select the start and end stations all over again. There really should be a link to the prices right on the schedule result page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On of my pet peeves is also found of Thalys.mobi. All the phone numbers on the &#8220;Buying&#8221; page are just text rather than click to call links! Are they deliberately trying to make it hard to call their reservation numbers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am pleased that Thalys is promoting their mobile site with a banner ad on the front page of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thalys.com\/be\/en\/\">Thalys.com<\/a> PC site. So many major web sites now have mobile editions but don&#8217;t promote or link to them forcing users to search.<\/p>\n<p>Thalys.mobi is on the Travel-Transit\/Rail page at <a href=\"http:\/\/yeswap.com\">Yeswap.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thalys.mobi\">Thalys.mobi<\/a> xhtml-mp\/wml<br \/>\nRatings: Content: <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/> Usability: <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"20\" height=\"16\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thalys International, which provides high speed rail service between Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne and Paris, now has a mobile site, thalys.mobi. The mobile edition offers schedule and fare lookups and contact numbers. The two main functions, Schedules and Fares are very similar and use a &#8220;wizard&#8221; interface. On the first screen you choose your start point from a drop down and click Next. A second screen prompts for destination station and for travel date and time which both default to current. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/214\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21550,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/21550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}