Lena Charles
- Jul 31, 2018
- 12 min read

Booking a Hotel? Then Know These Things Before Booking

Updated: Nov 8, 2018

Booking a hotel for your vacation can be an exciting chore. But beware of unwarranted over-excitement that makes you too quick and hence, too gullible.

Here are a few vital checks you need run before booking a hotel room!

Mistake: Most often, travelers simply hop on to a hotel’s website or any third booking website and start checking all the relevant hotels by looking at the pictures posted there. Nothing could be more misleading.

Check: Don't just look at a hotel’s exterior. You'll be staying inside a room. So, get a clear picture of the rooms themselves.

Your focus needs to be on checking out the rooms and the overall room maintenance. However, it's very common for the same random pictures to appear for different hotels on a website. That's because these are simply stock photos that aren’t of that hotel itself. So, you need to double check such images on various other websites across the board to get a better idea of how the rooms really are.

Mistake: You look at the picture of a huge and comfortable room and assume that is what is on the actual offer. This is the most common booking blunder!

Check: Hotels often put up the same picture of their best rooms, even for their smaller offers. They also frequently use fish eye camera to make the room look bigger than it actually is artificially.

Hence, it is vital that you check the details of the room such as the size, direction, attachments available and so on, listed alongside, to get the exact picture and know the real size and features of the room you're checking out.

Mistake: Most feel too lazy or too hassled to check out a hotel one found and loved, across other websites. But booking right away without cross-checking can cost you a lot.

Check: Checking out the same hotel room on various booking websites is a safer and wiser way to ensure that inaccurate sample pictures are not misguiding you. Such varied third party booking sites also often display photographs clicked by their own patrons or guests, which give a more realistic picture of the property. This gives away any misguiding information through staple pin-up pictures on the hotel's site or just some booking site.

Mistake: Accepting a very first good deal as the best deal available is a pervasive and very erroneous mindset we humans have when we are in a rush.

Check: Here again, checking multiple third-party hotel booking websites help significantly. Hotel websites generally offer their staple price, unless you're a loyalty member. Third party websites often pre-buy several rooms which later, they're forced to redeem at a lower price as they were lying vacant.

Checking one such third party website isn't enough. There may be the same kind of room in the same hotel pre-bought by various third-party hotel booking sites, and each of them offers it at a different discount. So, check out the same property and prices across all the possible third-party websites.

Mistake: And the final but the most dangerous one is to take possibly misleading information about a hotel’s location at face value, only to get stuck in the middle of nowhere.

Check: Just because a hotel calls itself the International Airport Hotel need not be near the airport. It could be anywhere far inside the city. Just because a location description says "Very Close to the Heart of the City " doesn’t mean it is.

Carefully double check the distance mentioned and the mailing address in order to get a better idea. Use the mailing address to search the exact location on Google Maps. Check out how far it is from the central point, the popular tourist sites, restaurants, hospitals and essential transport junctions such as Railway Station, bus depot, and the airport. Get a fair idea of the neighborhood using Google Maps Street View.

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We are certain these few travel hacks when properly implemented, will get you the best and the most memorable hotel accommodation experience.

Bon Voyage!

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