Hotels

So you go pull up your favorite online travel agent site and you don’t like the hotel prices you’re seeing. No problem, there are dozens of others to choose from, right? No, there are really just two. Unless you count the small ones making up 5% of bookings, every brand you see is from one …

In Latin American capital cities, how much does a couple have to spend to get a relatively nice hotel room? Where can two people get their own room with a private bathroom for $40 or less? From Mexico down through the last countries in South America, you can easily find one in most of the …

While few things in life are 100% effective all the time, you can almost always save time in your major travel service searches by using an aggregator service. This way you can search the best prices from multiple companies without visiting 10 or 20 different travel websites. The word “aggregator” sounds like an annoyed Florida …

What’s up with those ridiculous rates you see posted on hotel room doors? I once stayed at some crappy roadside motel in Nowheresville, Georgia. The towels were thin, the toiletries the cheapest you can buy, the carpet worn, the bathroom held together by many tubes of caulk. The room rate listed on the back of …

I just got back from a few weeks of being an active travel writer, which is in contrast to being an active traveler. For one thing, I stayed in some very swanky hotels in the line of work, while staying at some not-so-swanky ones at other times. In contrast, I have to admit that the …