advancedReal System Design Problems

Design a Hotel Booking System (like Booking.com) — inventory and double-booking prevention.

The inventory-and-double-booking problem: how room availability is modeled and queried efficiently across date ranges, how concurrent bookings are prevented from double-booking the same room (locking vs optimistic concurrency), and how the booking and payment are completed as one consistent operation rather than two independently-failable steps.

This is a Pro question

Sign in, then upgrade to Pro or Power to unlock this question and the full Interview Prep bank.

Design a Hotel Booking System (like Booking.com) — inventory and double-booking prevention.

Next Step

Continue to How do you design a system to handle 1 million requests per second?← Back to all System Design (HLD) questions