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Choosing Hotels
by Nigel Peacock
You know you will arrive in a strange town or city late in the evening
and need to have your hotel reservation sorted out well in advance.
In the old days, it would be a question of picking up the yellow AA book
and discovering perhaps four of fives hotels at your destination. The
internet has changed all that.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of web sites where you will find
lists of tens of thousands of hotels across the world. Naturally, most
hotels manage their own web presence, so the choice is overwhelming.
One way to find a hotel in the United Kingdom, for instance, is to use
your favourite search engine and enter the words : hotel Canterbury,
which using Google will produce over 280,000 results – ten time the
population of the city of Canterbury in England. In the results will be
hotels in Canterbury England, Canterbury New Zealand and the Canterbury
Hotel near Indianapolis – hardly useful.
Try refining the search term with the words : “canterbury hotel” +kent +england.
This narrows the results down to around 1,400 which will have dozens of
duplicates.
The results will include individual hotels and directories of hotels.
The first couple of pages in the search results give plenty of options
of both styles of results. Check the specific hotel results, or use the
directories. The advantage of the directory results is because often
they list all the hotels in Canterbury along with prices and online
booking facilities.
Booking through an online web directory can be cheaper than booking
directly with an individual hotel.
Whichever way you choose your hotel, you can be sure that everything
will be ready when you arrive in that strange town.
Nigel Peacock has travelled extensively around the world and manages the
web site Hotel Finder UK.
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