Best Site To Book Hotel Reservations

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Booking.com

Hotel Manager here... There are basically only a few companies. Expedia is the largest and they own hotels.com, travelocity, orbitz, trivago, vrbo, and a few others. Booking Holdings owns priceline, agoda, kayak, booking.com and a few others. They are basically all the same thing. Now, within those sites, it is about the way you book. You can book prepaid and not prepaid. If you book not prepaid, it is basically the same as going through the hotel's website. If you book prepaid, you pay them and then they (Expedia, etc) send over their one-time use credit card and we charge that. A prepaid reservation is usually cheaper but you better be sure this is what you want. The hotel can't change it. We can cancel the reservation but this really only just refunds EXPEDIA's card... Not yours. We can't change names, dates, length of stay.. nothing. To get it changed, you have to call them and jump through about a million hoops and they blatantly lie to you. Also, remember that the hotel's rates are usually up front. If it is $149, it is just that plus tax. Expedia, etc. Will list it as $134 +tax and then they throw on a $15 service fee essentially making it the same as going through the hotel. Also, at my hotel, if you book through a 3rd party, you do not get breakfast because the food cost is offsetting the commission fee that we have to pay on these reservations. TL/DR version - book through the hotel. it will save you hassle, you may lose other perks, and the rates are going to be about the same.

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Hotels.com

Hotel Manager here... There are basically only a few companies. Expedia is the largest and they own hotels.com, travelocity, orbitz, trivago, vrbo, and a few others. Booking Holdings owns priceline, agoda, kayak, booking.com and a few others. They are basically all the same thing. Now, within those sites, it is about the way you book. You can book prepaid and not prepaid. If you book not prepaid, it is basically the same as going through the hotel's website. If you book prepaid, you pay them and then they (Expedia, etc) send over their one-time use credit card and we charge that. A prepaid reservation is usually cheaper but you better be sure this is what you want. The hotel can't change it. We can cancel the reservation but this really only just refunds EXPEDIA's card... Not yours. We can't change names, dates, length of stay.. nothing. To get it changed, you have to call them and jump through about a million hoops and they blatantly lie to you. Also, remember that the hotel's rates are usually up front. If it is $149, it is just that plus tax. Expedia, etc. Will list it as $134 +tax and then they throw on a $15 service fee essentially making it the same as going through the hotel. Also, at my hotel, if you book through a 3rd party, you do not get breakfast because the food cost is offsetting the commission fee that we have to pay on these reservations. TL/DR version - book through the hotel. it will save you hassle, you may lose other perks, and the rates are going to be about the same.

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Agoda

Trivago.com is an search engine that can look into several hotels reservation websites such bookings.com, hotels.com, agoda.com, etc... I use it for first option ...

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