Making Hotel Reservations

Life is funny.  I just finished making hotel reservations for a trip to Charleston after Christmas and now I find an email asking me to review HotelReservations.com for ReviewMe.  I wish I’d gotten this paid review request earlier in the day.

The first thing I noticed about HotelReservations.com was the $100 Rebate button.  I clicked.  Not a bad deal.  If I had booked my brief trip to Charleston through this site, I could have had a $20 rebate on top of a rate that is $2 per night lower than booking straight through the hotel’s website.  That, my friends, is a deal.  Which makes it worth going to a website that has a typo right on the front page (Advence should obviously be Advanced). 

Another thing I noticed, when searching for a hotel in Charleston, SC for a few days after Christmas, is the ability to sort by a lot more variables than other reservation sites.  You can choose from a huge list of landmarks and ask for hotels close to those.  That would have come in handy for me on a few trips to south Florida and a trip to Atlanta where we found ourselves a little bit further afield than we’d originally hoped. 

I went surfing around the vacation packages, too.  I almost bought a package and that never happens.  Actually I was torn between two and I may still go back and grab one, if I can decide between them (and choose a date that works for us, and scrape up the money to pay for the trip).  I have no idea how the site managed it but they showed me TWO hotels that I really love in NYC in the first page of results.  That simply never happens because neither hotel is a top pick on the other reservation sites I have used.

I haven’t had any problems using the search.  The site moves quickly and hasn’t returned any odd results.  I might actually give this one a try the next time I book a weekend.  If I do, I’ll come back and blog about it again.