{"id":765,"date":"2016-04-23T06:19:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T06:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/family-world-travel.com\/english\/?p=765"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:12:34","slug":"how-to-look-for-find-and-book-a-hotel-online-simple-easy-and-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/family-world-travel.com\/english\/how-to-look-for-find-and-book-a-hotel-online-simple-easy-and-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"How to look for, find and book a hotel online- simple, easy and cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0A step-by-step process to book the perfect accommodation for your vacation<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Finding a hotel online can be a really exhausting and confusing task. Not only is it difficult to sift through all of the choices you are provided with, the huge number of websites from search engine results and all of the countless options you get makes it feel like the world hottest dance club.<\/p>\n

Did you know that there are simpler, easier and more comfortable ways to find the right hotel for you?<\/p>\n

There are a few things you should know about search engines and mega search engines in general before going about finding the right hotel for your vacation, a little bit of backstory shows why it\u2019s a bit complicated and exposes the politics behind the hotel industry.<\/p>\n

Today, there are three main options for booking a hotel online. These include;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Through a mega search engine<\/strong>– These huge search engines often claim to offer and cover dozens or even hundreds of smaller search engines. This makes it a good fit to find the cheapest results especially when you would like to have a good variety of options.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Through a regular search engine<\/strong>– Such search engines would have a stock of hotels it partners with and will display the price for each booking according to your search term.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The private websites of each hotel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to a research by \u201cThe guardian\u201d on the hotel industry,<\/strong> a large number of these mega search engines are under the same ownership as the regular search engines. This means that the mega search engines will display a clear preference for some websites and hotels over others.<\/p>\n

How then can you really trust the validity of results from these \u201cmega\u201d search engines?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can you be entirely certain that these search engines will always provide you with the best results when you use them to search for accommodations online? (this is also true for the flights and aviation industry but well discuss that at another time).<\/p>\n

Another research shows a price difference between the prices gotten on the private websites of hotels and the prices of the same hotels found through a search engine. Typically, the private websites are often more expensive even when searched on the same dates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

More research on this shows that there is not much difference between search engines. When checked at different times, the cheapest results checked was in a different engine every time with absolutely no pattern.<\/p>\n

How do you get around this problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s simple! You have to cross check a few different websites to evaluate what the best options are for you.<\/p>\n

The three\u00a0websites I prefer to work with are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013Hotelscombined<\/a><\/strong>\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0A mega search engine.
\n\u2013Agoda-<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0A regular search engine that is considered to be the best in South Asia.
\n\u2013booking<\/a><\/strong>\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0A regular search engine.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a simple step-by-step process to book a cheap hotel;<\/u><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0<\/strong>Click\u00a0hotelcombined\u00a0<\/a>and search for the dates and the destination you\u2019re looking for. Next, select all\u00a0the relevant filters and add them to the first search. These could include,<\/p>\n