Hotel search online - these portals exist
Travel is also booming on the Internet - but which of the hotel search portals offers you the best offers? We present three well-known hotel booking websites and show you what you should pay attention to.
The booking portal "Hotel Reservation Service" (HRS)
"HRS" stands for Hotel Reservation Service and is one of the largest hotel search portals with over 250, 000 hotels worldwide. Even if these are only a few hotels compared to some other providers, HRS knows how to convince with a clever page structure.
- Enter the desired location of the hotel and the time in order to receive the hotel suggestions in the HRS search field.
- The HRS recommendation: In order to find the best out of the numerous suggestions, there are yet another extra in addition to known filter methods such as "price" and "customer rating": the "HRS recommends". Behind this is a combination of booking conditions, high customer satisfaction and a (at least according to HRS standards) very good price / performance ratio.
- Target group evaluations: Young people place different demands on a hotel than seniors. That is why you can sort the hotel search results according to different customer ratings. You can also find the opinions of families with children as well as groups or business travelers straight away.
- Discounts: If you want to save a little while on vacation, HRS offers you various options. On the one hand, the filter criterion "hot deal" enables the display of the cheapest room rate, which is usually tied to certain conditions (for example, a prepayment to the hotel). In addition, there are often further discounts between 5 and 10 percent on the total hotel price.
- Price guarantee: If you find cheaper offers for equivalent rooms in the hotel you have selected or already booked on another website, HRS will refund the difference. A comparison on other portals cannot hurt.
- Bargain hunters find numerous last-minute trips in the HRS deals, sometimes with discounts of over 50 percent.
- The only drawback: At HRS you will only find hotels - you have to book the right flight from another provider. The hotel portal will tell you at least whether rail, flight or your own car is the best way to get there.
- HRS has both an Android app and hotel search tools for iPhone / iPad.
Hotels and more on HolidayCheck
HolidayCheck compares the offers of around 400, 000 hotels from all over the world and even puts together the right flight for you.
- To ensure that your dream vacation does not become a nightmare, you can consult over seven million customer reviews before booking. Numerous hotels have received over 100 comments, videos and pictures, so that you can get an exact picture in advance.
- HolidayCheck also offers a money-back guarantee if you find an identical offer elsewhere at a cheaper price.
- Before the start of your trip, you can find out more about other dos and don'ts in the HolidayCheck forum. These are available for almost every travel destination - Mallorca, Turkey and Egypt are particularly popular.
- In addition to a targeted hotel search, HolidayCheck also offers various package tours and last minute offers. But there are also special offers and discounts for early bookers.
- However, you cannot carry out the detailed search for hotels on HolidayCheck as precisely as with HRS and Trivago. For example, there is no categorization according to certain extras such as free WiFi in the hotel or hotel pool yes / no.
- With the HolidayCheck app for iPhone, iPad and Android, you can also use the travel portal on the go.
The extensive hotel search with Trivago
Trivago searches other travel portals - such as booking.com or hotel.com - for suitable search results. With over 600, 000 hotels from around 200 travel providers, you are therefore offered the largest number of different hotels. So that you can find the best offer from the multitude of results, extensive filter options help you to choose.
- The Trivago hotel portal offers you more than 20 different criteria in terms of "room facilities" and at least as many to find the best hotel. You can also do a search for various sports such as surfing or renting a bike on site.
- A favorites function and the hotel chronicle of the last viewed offers will help you to make the shortlist.
- Since there are a large number of different travel providers for most hotels, Trivago also compares them for you. The ranking of the cheapest hotels is supplemented by a filter for the cheapest providers.
- Trivago does not know any classic patterns for the target group either, but introduces its own search criteria for a successful holiday with additional categories such as "Gay friendly", "Singles" and "Partygoers".
- With the free iPad app "Trivago Hotel Search HD" and on the iPhone with the "Trivago Hotel Search" you can also compare the cheapest hotels on the go.
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