New year is coming and it’s time to travel. There appears so many ways to get good deals on hotel rooms these days. However, these following steps are, perhaps, the simplest but one of the most effective ways to book a cheaper but good hotel room in US.
1. Get the lay of the land.
Today there are lots of online booking sites such as www.booking.com, www.hotels.com, www.travelpony.com. Log on, plug in your dates of
travelling, adjust the filters, especially the ones that involve cost and then
browse through your choices. Remember to notice user reviews, cancellation
policies and taxes included to choose some most suitable hotels.
2. Check the price (and search
again).
Next
step is check the prices of the hotels you’ve chosen already at www.kayak.com,
a website which aggregates prices across other sites. It can enable you to
check several hotels at once. Pay attention on the prices as sometimes the
hotel offer some discounts.
Beside
www.kayak.com,
there are also some other websites that you can rely on to check the prices:
www.hipmunk.com
This site includes new mapping feature appearing side-by-side with their hotel
suggestions and even offers overlay “heat maps” to see which parts of the city
are best for food or night life.
www.trivago.com
It searches about 200 booking sites so you can find lower prices than other
websites.
www.tripadvisor.com
The world largest travel site. If you will be on long-day trip, this website is
really useful.
3. Search for a package deal.
If
you’ve already booked a flight or will be on a long trip, this step won’t work.
But if it is a straight-forward trip
(eg. In-and-out L.A-to-NewYork), a package deal might be the trick. Access to www.priceline.com
and you will be able to get a hot deal.
4. Make a call.
Once
you’ve chosen the hotel, call them. Tell them that you find its information in
a website, for example www.hotels.com,
and ask if they could give you a discount
when booking directly. As usual, hotels must give the booking sites a 20 to 30%
commission so they might be eager to split the difference with you. Whether it
works or not also depends on who answer the phone and the power they’re given.
If ok, book directly to get the best deal.
Do all these 4 steps, and it’s likely you will get a cheap room with a beautiful viewsight in the centre of the city.
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