Travel Site Review

Just visited the Hotel Reservations site in order to see how it compares to other sites like Expedia, Travelocity and Priceline.

The layout of this site is comparable to other sites. The best point is that the home page is compact and there is not a lot of scrolling or linking needed to start searching for a rental car or a hotel. This site will also let you see prices in your home currency. Other sites usually will quote prices in U.S. dollars which then means you have to go to a currency exchange site to convert to your home currency.

I tried finding mini-van quotes in central Toronto and found large number of national and international companies quoted. The prices were very good. Just as a check, I then went to the home sites for two of the rental companies quoted by hotelresevations.com and found the price I was given to be at least as good as or better than the rental company quote! The system also quotes the base price and then estimates how much you will actually pay per day when taxes, insurance and other add-ons are figured into the price.

Also, checked out hotel reservation prices in my local area. A pretty good range of hotels came up with prices about what I would have expected.

One of the best things about this site is that they not only have toll-free numbers for the U.S. but also for Canada and Europe. Usually, travel sites are very U.S. centric and leave people outside the U.S. as second thoughts. Like the egalitarianism of the site. Once you click to let the system know which country you are from, everything, like picking your home province (in my case, Ontario) to major cities, are easier to find and point out to make your booking that much faster.

I would definitely go to this site to comparison shop against the other travel sales sites out there.