Our Recommended On-line Reservation Sites for USA and Canada are
Summary of of Latest Survey Results.
USA is particular well covered with discount
Accommodation Booking Services, although there appears to be more
than there really is as there are many sites which are copies of
others. The world's largest is the Hotel Reservations
Network (travelnow.com) has the greatest North American coverage, and
greatest range of properties per city. The smaller Quickbook.com
is priced about the same but much more limited in range, but this
is offset by the fact you usually do not have to pre-pay. The
heavyweights Expedia.com and Orbitz.com win on comprehensiveness
and quality of web-site.
The US market also has an alternative buying
method -
both
Hotwire and
Priceline deal in discounted hotel rooms the same way as they
sell airline seats - you bid a price and a area location and they
come back to you with a room in a hotel. Hotels are not really
like airline seats, they are much more individual and we do not
feel comfortable about this method of buying a hotel strictly on
price. It may suit you though.
The US
market has virtual no Last-Minute type sites and the only one we
recommend for North America is LateRooms.com which is a UK
company.
The Accommodation Search Engine Network
(ase.network) is worth utilising initially to initially
see what is available at your location. See our
How to Use
recommendations.
Other Information and Web-sites to check
The largest network is the Hotel Reservations
Network. The following large sites utilise the same engine and
database, so in fact you are getting exactly the same deal from
them all. Some however do specialise in specific locations and
segment (hotels.com, travelnow.com, hoteldiscounts.com,
condosavers.com, 180096hotel.com, allluxuryhotels.com,
acenethotels.com, floridahotels.com, hotels.co.uk, all-hotels.com,
hoteldiscount.fr, hotelguide.net )
There are
also notable regional players:
HotRooms in Chicago;
San Francisco Reservations for the Bay Area and the Silicon
Valley; and
Express Hotel Reservations in New York, Chicago and Los
Angeles.
Historical Hotels of America
- identifies hotels that are at least 50 years old that have
maintained their historic architecture and ambience. Browse hotels
by location or view an alphabetical list.
Travelweb.Com
is the Internet booking service for five leading hotel chains -
Hilton, Hyatt, Mariott, Six Continents and Starwood. There are
good weekend specials listed each week here.
Canada
Holiday
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