One of the stages of travel planning is to search and booking hotels and guesthouses. Yes, you can find a hotel or Guesthouse directly on site, and perhaps even cheaper than via the Internet, but how long will it take? Therefore, sometimes it is better to do this in advance, for example, in the case when you have limited time, and from the airport you need to go immediately to the hotel, or, when to get a visa, the embassy requires you to provide a reservation hotels.
In any case, agree that it is convenient, coming to the place in advance to be sure that there is a place to sleep, especially in period of holidays, when empty seats to find oh how hard. Take for example booking hotels in Thailand in high season (new year) or during the Loy Kratong festival.
The content of the article
- 1 Systems for booking and searching hotels worldwide
- 2 Search hotels by booking database
- 3 How we usually look for hotels
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Hotel reservation and search systems worldwide
For this purpose, the sites of the reservation system and search hotels worldwide. The booking system enters into a contract with hotels, and provides information about them on the Internet, as well as possibility of booking. As a rule, such systems contain Its database of tens of thousands of hotels and guesthouses around the world.
Most popular booking systems: Booking.com, Agoda.com, and less popular: Hotels.com, Hrs.com, Expedia.com. There are others even less known.
Bases of different booking systems contain similar hotels, and different. Therefore, in order to get as much as possible offers from hotels, it is desirable to view all the sites of these systems. Prices are also different, as booking systems work with hotels on different terms. Commission for using the system booking is not charged, so in addition you do not overpay. Payment takes place on a plastic card.
Search Hotels Booking.com
Search hotels by booking database
The world does not stand still. And so for the convenience of finding hotels, now began to appear hotel search engines database systems reservation. The use of such search engines significantly reduces search time, because now you need to view not a dozen sites, and only one.
One of these search engines – RoomGuru, he is looking for hotels in all existing reservation systems in the world.
The search is performed in exactly the same way as in the booking system – given the city, number, number of people. Visually, everything looks the same. As a result, we get all offers from all popular databases of reservation systems, and we can choose the most suitable for us. After searching the site redirects take you to the hotel you need in your chosen reservation system. I.e hotel search engine performs only auxiliary function, no additional fees are not charged.
Hotel search results for all booking bases
Price for a particular hotel in all reservation systems
How do we usually look for hotels
It all depends on the specific conditions, but, as a rule, we combine Online booking and self-searching on site.
– Before the trip, we analyze the order of prices for accommodation through search engine for booking systems. – We are looking for information on the forums and blogs about specific low-cost and proven sites. – We analyze price If the price in the recommended hotels is not significantly lower (and sometimes it can be higher), then it’s time to book through the Internet. If the price indicated on the forum is significantly lower, then we we remember this place on the map (it is desirable to have such places somewhat just in case) and look for yourself on arrival.
Last time we booked a hotel in Bangkok. We needed a room in the city center, not far from the metro and the park, with modern interior. The hotel was found for 10 minutes and safely booked
(!) It is necessary to consider that the search for information on the forums takes Sometimes a lot of time, so it does not suit everyone. On-site search cheap hotel can also take a few hours, so we We use it when we are not in a hurry. Also by experience I can say that not always the price on the spot will be less than through the Internet. For example, in Malaysia we booked a hotel through Internet for the promotion, and the number on the spot cost 1.5 times more.
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Life hacking 2 – how to find a hotel 20% cheaper
First, choose a hotel on Booking. They have a good base offers, but the prices are NOT the best! The same hotel is often possible find 20% cheaper in other systems through the RoomGuru service.
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