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More Choices, Less Time: How to Find a Hotel

January 30th, 2011

When people decide to take a vacation, the first thing they look into is where to stay. The questions that go through their mind are what hotel will meet their needs or how to pick a hotel when there are so many choices. Today’s travel market has an array of hotel options and to make a decision there are many entities and tools that can help.

1. Hotel Reservation and Hotel Comparison Websites

Internet has become one of the main tools used when it comes to planning a vacation and hotel reservation and hotel comparison sites is one of them. A perfect example of these would be Venere.com, Expedia.com, Sidestep.com, Prontohotel.com and Kayak. They provide detailed information on the hotel and its location, plus the various prices offered. The service is free, making it even more appealing to book a hotel through them. For booking hotels and finding good deals travel search engine sites are also an option. The difference with hotel provider sites is that travel sites can offer you additional services to hotel prices, such as flight or cruise prices and availability. Sites like these would include Orbitz.com, Priceline.com or Mobissimo.com.

2. Travel Agencies

Travel Agencies are also an option to keep in mind. They inspect the hotels they offer, assuring quality and satisfaction.

3. Google Search City for Hotels

When making a decision, whether using online booking or an agency, it is always a good idea to be informed. Google searching the city or town one wants to visit and the hotels located in those areas can help find out if the price and hotel suggested by the hotel provider sites or travel agencies are really the best ones there.

4. Reviews and Ratings

Once the desired price and type of accommodation is found, the next step is to make sure it is all the things it seems to be. Reviews and ratings help with this because they give an insider’s opinion. Sometimes a hotel can have a good price and seem well positioned, but have certain unfavorable aspects to it that only someone who has been there can know.

5. Friends

If one adds to the reviews and ratings a friend’s inside experience this makes the decision even more secure. While some traveler comments can be conjured by the same hotel to bring more business their way; friends will tell it as it is. They give the most accurate feed-back because they personally care for their friends.

By: Ralph Goody

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Do Your Hotel Reservations Online

January 29th, 2011

There is absolutely no dearth of information on how to make a hotel reservation today. In spite of this, why is it that we do sometimes get into a fix trying to make a reservation in a hotel. If there is one thing that we tend to do is, waiting till the last moment to make a reservation. There will be people who tell you that if they were aware of the fact that they had to reach a particular place, they would have made the reservation early enough. This is not always possible and that is why we end up reaching the doors of a hotel, only to find that a room is not available, because prior reservation was not done.

There are a few points that need to be kept in mind if you want a proper and confirmed reservation to be made every time you need to travel and stay in a hotel. Some of them are:

o Try to plan your trip as much in advance as possible.

o Give yourself a few options when it comes to dates, this way you might be able to find more than one option when you are looking for suitable accommodation.

o If you are too busy to check things for yourself, you could get one of your staff to it. This would be possible if you were in a position of authority. If on the other hand, this was not possible, it would be good for you to take some time off and check for yourself, the details about the hotel that you intend to reserve a room in.

o If you are not familiar with the place that you are going to, you need to find out where exactly the hotel is located. In fact, it would be better if you knew how far the hotel is from the airport or station.

o It would help if you got to know what other special facilities, the hotel has on offer. For instance, if the hotel has a gym, or a pool table, you know that after you have finished your day’s work, you can unwind and really relax. This could be a good way to relax, even while you work.

Whatever be the parameters that we try to set, we always to tend to think or rather take a hotel for granted. This is probably the chief reason why we are not able to plan our reservations as they should be planned.

If you are not a business person, and you wanted to stay in a hotel, while on holiday, then you need to look at making reservations from a totally different angle. Here the emphasis would be on comfort and extras – a hotel where you could do more than just stay. For instance, if you were traveling to Thailand, on a holiday, you would want to do much more than just sit in your room. Planning and making necessary reservations become even more important when you are on holiday.

By: Ben Jackson

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Ben Jackson writes articles for hotel reservations and cheap hotels. Other articles written by the author related to discount hotels, cheap accommodation and compare hotels can be found on the web.

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Experience in Booking of Malaysia Hotel

January 29th, 2011

Malaysia is a popular travel destination in South East Asia, possessing a wide range of attractions, like beautiful beaches, interesting diving/snorkeling spots, relaxing island resorts, cooling highland stay, fascinating historical sites, unique flora and fauna etc. Traveling from one place to another place is quite convenience, the best way is self driving. There are also huge varieties of food available, ranges from local Malay style, Asian style to International and Western style. There are many hotels, holiday apartments, chalets, bungalows and resorts available, ranges from simple “Home Stay” type of motel to luxury 5 stars Hotel. Unfortunately, booking of such hotel is not that convenience.

In 2008 October, during the “Ramadan Festival” public Holiday, we managed to book an apartment in Cameron Highland. This apartment is located at “Brinchang” Town, Cameron Highland, call “Honey Moon Villa”. Honey Moon Villa is a mixture of residential and holiday apartments. All apartment units contain three rooms, with kitchen and cooking utensils provided. Living room is quite spacious, good for 10 persons. Apartment rental is also very reasonable; we enjoyed staying there very much.

In 2009 June, when we planned to book this apartment again, we were not able to locate the Apartment contact number. Try to search from internet, but failed. The only way to book was through a tour agency. As we were not familiar with any of the tour agency, we have to change our plan. We booked another apartment that my friend has its contact number, but it was smaller and price was higher.

In the beginning of 2009, my family and I planned a trip to Maxwell Hill, Taiping Perak, for one night stay. After searching through internet, no contact information of bungalow was available. No choice, we can’t make advance accommodation reservation. We want to try our luck; we went directly to the bottom of the Maxwell Hill and asked the government officer over there. Finally, we managed to get the contact number for one of the bungalows, “Cendana Hut” and we were very lucky, there was still unit available!

From these two incidents, our conclusion is that in order to promote tourism industry in Malaysia, there is a need to provide sufficient hotel information to all potential tourists. I used to travel to China, they have very well established hotel reservation agencies like Ctrip and Elong, but in Malaysia, this type of industry is still young, it is difficult to find an established and famous hotel reservation agent. If we are not careful, sometimes holiday will turn into nightmare when hotel reservation is not done properly.

By: KK Tan

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http://www.malaysia-hoteldirectory.com is providing a list of major hotels’ website in Malaysia that may be useful to solve this problem.