HotelReservations.com offers a range of online services for international travelers. Aside from discount hotels, the service also offers flight bookings and car rental services. The hotel bookings themselves offer a range of hotels, motels, resorts, vacation rentals and more.
The first thing I noticed upon entering the site was the easy-to-use interface which let me select hotels by destination, or switch to flights, car rentals and vacation packages. The site operates intuitively and while you cannot book a hotel in Tehran, Iran (my first uber challenge!), the bookings system offers numerous hotels, motels and resorts from many cities around the world.
The system also allows you to quickly search for availability of hotels by pricing date, number of adults and children. I was quite happy to find numerous results for Nagoya, Japan during my second challenge. The interface is very easy to use and the information for each hotel, motel and other listings and the amount of time required from the initial search to booking would take just a few minutes.
The site also allows flight bookings and car rental services. The flight bookings were a breeze to use allowing to you set your itinerary before letting the computer gather the best options for your journey. The return trip prices for my requirements from Tokyo to my hometown were quite reasonable and, as with the hotel/motel bookings. The car rentals part of this service which covers a vast array of cities. The prices for rental in my hometown were competitive with car rentals I have used in the past.
Aside from these features HotelReservations.com offers vacation rentals and vacation packages.
Overall, during my testing of the site, I felt that HotelReservations.com is a superior booking site for travelers. There may be some package combinations that could be handled cheaply in some cases, but overall I found the pricing for HotelReservations.com to be quite competitive, not to mention comprehensive. It is certainly a service I would be happy to use for organizing my next venture back home!
