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How to find cheap hotels-hotel

by Jez RourkeCopyright (c) 2009 directline-holidays.co.uk

It's easy to find cheap hotels, once you know where to start looking and how to look. If you are using the Internet for your search then the obvious place to start looking is with a search engine.

In order to find cheap hotels there is no advantage in using the so-called hotel search engines over a universal search engine like Google or the larger Mamma Metasearch. A reson for this is a lot of website claim to be about travel or hotel searches can be told apart from hotel related portals or directories.

Cheap hotels are ever more prevalent as the cost of living rises and we nose-dive deeper into recession. This means hotel bookings are down and hoteliers are offering larger discounts to you, the consumer. the fastest way to find cheap hotels is on the internet by getting your own automated searchbot. This works by comparing the results or numerous search engines consecutively.

The most effective searchbot is Copernic, which is free to download. Once you have downloaded this you can use it to track hundreds of newsgroups and directories that might offere cheap hotels. In this way you are unlikely to encounter irrelevant listings.

A lot of online travel agents and hotel booking sites offer really cheap holiday deals that have cut prices on hotels. One way to find out what they have on offer is to sign up to various newsgroups so that you recieve newsletters including hotel deals. This way you will find out about big savings, offers and deals on cheap hotels that you will not see anywhere else. Sign up to as many websites as possible so that you are offered a variety of cheap hotel deals for wherever you are planning to travel.

Another way to find cheap hotels or rather a free hotel is to enter competitions, as you never know when you will be the lucky one. Just type 'free holiday competitions' in your search engine to find out what is available. There are thousands of them available and you may even find this an enjoyable pastime and extremely profitable.

If you can travel off-season to a popular destination, you will find that hotels are usually much cheaper at these times. It is often cheaper too, if you book a hotel from midweek to midweek rather than at weekends. Scouting around for last minute deals is always a good idea as well.

When you think you have found the very cheapest hotel, check it out to ensure you know exactly what you are getting for your money. Does the cost cover room only or are meals all in? This can make all the difference to what you holiday costs are in the end. Visit the website; take a look at images of the rooms etc to see that you are really getting good value for money.

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