Booking.com

Booking.com remains the top direct booking site. It smokes all competition when it comes to the sheer number of city-center lodgings for under $200. It’s honest, including in the site the taxes in the lead rates.

Source: Frommer’s

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Advantages on Booking.com

Booking.com was simply being honest, including taxes on its lead rates (the first ones you see on the results screens), whereas all the others were burying the fees in fine print, disclosed only after users click through and try to book.

The site had the best or near-best rates 16 out of 20 times, and performed at least average on a further three. These consistent results confirmed why—disclosure unrelated to our discovery in these tests—Frommer’s selected Booking.com for its hotel partner years ago. Best results and no attempt to hide the taxes? Sometimes, the good guys really do come out on top.

Usually finds at least twice the number of properties (if not more) than any other OTA; outperforms all others in the lower price brackets; consistently returns among the lowest rates; great selection of filters and sort-by options.

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Through the Content

Not only the hotels it mainly features, but also flights, rental cars, and even airport taxis were provided in Booking.com. The creators of this online site made it a one-stop page. Everything’s in there, including the choices and opportunities for clients to find the best of… literally everything they need for travel.

You can also create your own account and have content show up according to your preferences. Navigation include “Our Top Picks”, “Lowest Price First”, and “Review Score”. Giving the potential customers a 360 degree view of the hotels around the world.

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Into the Hotel Profiles

If you are looking for complete and honest, Booking.com is the place to go. We cannot specify all the navigation and buttons because they are just all over the place, not missing anything. It has maps and promos were also featured in chosen hotels.

Ratings are the most important part in choosing a hotel room—and they provide plenty of them. Pictures of the internal features of the rooms and condominiums were also posted to ensure that these places are for real.

Ready for your dream vacation? Book now at Booking.com. Click this link: BOOKING.COM

 

Agoda

Agoda takes the award for most improved booking site. This Priceline-owned booking engine has massively increased its offerings around the world. Agoda now even outperforms corporate cousin Booking.com on some metrics, including the number of hotels found in city centers (though Booking.com still boasts a larger stable of downtown options in the less expensive brackets).  

Source: Frommer’s

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Website Navigation

Users are given the opportunity to specify the location, check-in and check-out dates, and number of guests and rooms they want at the top bar in Agoda’s website. One can also create an account.

There are also recommended, price, star rating, guest rating, and secret deals buttons displayed to further specify the search results.

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Place Search

Take a look at the completeness and elegance of their lay-out.

Excited on booking your chosen hotel? Go to their website: AGODA

Trivago

Trivago has a lovely and intuitive user interface, speedy refreshes, and a nice set of complete filters. It has a “distance from…” option that allows you to fill in any address. 

Source: Frommer’s

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Online Features

You can filter your searches in the left side of your screen. If you want a 5-star hotel, it takes just a click to find them. You can also choose hotels according to your budgey.

They provide maps to determine the distance from your home to the hotel you choose. A sorting option (prices, ratings, popularity, etc.) is available on the hotels being shown in the results.

Check-in and check-out dates can also be specified, as well as the room classification such as Single Room, Double Room, Family Room, or Multiple Rooms.

Here’s how their site looks like:

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Individual Searches

Name, prices, photos, infos, reviews, and deals were shown in the hotels’ individual profiles. With this, you can make sure of the legit sources being shown.

Visit their site by clicking on the link: TRIVAGO