The slow ball is definitely rolling!

My patience has paid off and 4 out of the 8 hotels have now replied. I'd like to take this opportunity to give the following Cookbookers a big tasty shout out......

Wanderlust Hotel, Singapore www.wanderlusthotel.com - your enthusiasm has been great, along with your retweets!

Room at Bangkok www.roomatbangkok.com - and now Room at Bali too!

Clink78, London www.clinkhostels.com - I had to get a reply from my hometown!

The Nunnery, Melbourne www.nunnery.com.au - congrats on being the first to return my mail!

It's slowly but surely coming together and with each tweet, each Facebook 'like' and each blog update I feel that maybe, just maybe, this might work!