We have just learned that Google has ditched their Google Labs projects, but that does not mean that we won’t be getting interesting experimental stuff anymore. Just check out Google Hotel Finder, a maps-based tool that will help you find the perfect hotel near you. To start using Google Hotel Finder, just enter your location [...]
Want to bid for a hotel room on Priceline but not sure how much to bid? BiddingTraveler is the magic tool as it will tell you a history of winning bids on Priceline for hotels in all major cities. Simply enter the name of the city and your traveling dates then BiddingTraveler will show you [...]
Expedia and Orbitz are great sites but they can be pretty tedious to work with if you are on the go. ToucHotel is an iPhone app that lets you make hotel reservations using your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. With over 90,000 accommodations that can be booked online, ToucHotel gives you access to a wide variety of [...]
Hotels are great but they lack that human element. If you are more of a people person and don’t like staying at hotels, AirBnB has something unique to offer. It is a website where you can rent rooms from actual people in their house. Simply choose your city, your stay dates and AirBnB will show [...]
Most travel discount sites are based on one concept: the early bird gets the worm. Discounts are offered far ahead of the actual trip, and last-minute offerings are scarce. If you’re embarking on a last-minute vacation or business trip, but still want to get the best deal possible on a hotel room, PackLate.com was built [...]
Dohop is an interesting comparison site which lets travelers compare flights, hotels and car rental services in an easy to understand interface. To search for flights, you can enter your departure and arrival destinations (or select on the map) and select the travel dates. Also select your residency and currency on the right. It then [...]
RoomAtlas is an interactive hotel map does a pretty good job in locating hotels across the world. The reason why this site may do a better job than other such mashups is the user interface and its database, which it sources from reliable sites like Expedia and Hotels.com. Plus there are reviews from TripAdvisor which [...]
When you want to book a hotel you never visited you can’t really rely on information provided by the hotel itself. To get an independent opinion about a particular hotel, check out the Raveable.com. This little known website aggregates user hotel rating and reviews from popular travel sites, blogs etc and ranks hotels by location and [...]
Imagine how cool would it be useful if you could see the hotel before booking it. That’s exactly what HotelVideoReviews aims to offer. It aggregates video reviews of hotels around the world submitted by real travellers. At the time being, most of the video reviews are for hotels in Europe and United States, including popular [...]
AirBnB, as they mention, is an online marketplace for peer-to-peer traveling. It is for those travelers who are looking to skip the high-priced hotels and get a cheap local apartments. For locals, it helps to earn them money by renting out the extra space in their houses. They can add the room details like photos, [...]