Search for cheap hotels. Hotel booking rules

I have collected in one place links to all sites for booking travel accommodation that I know of. Here you will find out how easy it is to spend the night in almost any city in the world at an affordable price or even for free! Or really find unusual place, a stay in which will be remembered for a long time.

The post contains the largest database of hostels in the world, the largest service for renting accommodation from hosts, sites for booking unusual designer hotels, overnight accommodation in exchange for help around the house or looking after a pet - in general, options for every taste. Choose!

Classic: hotel aggregator sites

Personally, I open these sites first when I'm going on a trip somewhere. As the name implies, they combine information from various booking systems, such as: booking, hotels, ostrovok (one of best prices in Russia), agoda (good for traveling in Asia), trivago, expedia and many others.

Aggregators compare prices, look for discounts and special offers, where you can find not only hotels, but also hostels, guest houses- it’s very convenient to have everything in one place.

Free overnight stay

The best way to understand a country and its people is to get to know the locals, or better yet, live with them for a while. International hospitality sites provide such opportunities when people invite guests to their home. Just don’t see them as just a free overnight stay, rather it’s a cultural exchange, interesting communication, an opportunity to improve your languages and find new friends around the world.

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Accommodation in exchange for housework

These sites should not be considered only as a way to get a free overnight stay, but as a new unusual experience and the opportunity to help people and the ecology of the planet for a week, a month, or maybe more. The idea is that you work several hours a day, and in return you receive room and board.

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Rental services for cool and unusual hotels

If you want to live in a lighthouse, in a tree house, stay in eco-friendly hotels or hotels only for vegetarians, try glamping (glamorous camping) or just have fun, then there are special sites for this.

✔ and - here you can buy someone else’s reservation at a discount. Someone couldn’t go and is selling their reservation on the website. You get a good discount, and the person gets money for a non-refundable room.

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Updated: 03/13/2019

Oleg Lazhechnikov

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The most important thing is where planning begins independent travel- this is buying tickets and booking accommodation. Tickets are a separate matter. Now let’s figure out where to start and how to properly book online accommodation for your trip, be it a hotel, guesthouse or hostel. Now there are many booking systems (such as Booking, Agoda, etc.) and services (for example,), where you can search for hotels and compare prices in different booking systems.

First, let's talk about everything in detail. At the very end of the post I’ll tell you how I book hotels myself, in what order.

What do you need

To book a hotel yourself, you will need a little time and three simple things that most people already have:

- Access to the Internet. Now it is available almost everywhere: home, mobile, in cafes, shopping centers, hotels, etc.
— Bank card (debit or credit) Mastercard, Visa or similar. You need to do it in advance, before the trip, in your hometown
- Email. You must indicate her address when booking, and you will receive a booking confirmation email and a booking code there.

By the way, some systems now allow you to book a hotel without a card.

What is a reservation system

A booking system is a website that allows you to book a hotel, essentially a database of hotels around the world. Hotels themselves are added to it in order to be able to rent out their rooms via the Internet. Reservation systems do not charge users a commission for using their database, and receive money directly from the hotel. That is, as a rule, the cost of staying in a room via the Internet or on site (at the reception) does not change for you. But it all depends on the specific hotel, because it is the hotel that sets these prices; for example, it may hold a promotion that if you book in advance you will receive a discount (but there will be no discount on the spot).

In any booking system, you can select hotels according to different criteria - country, city, dates, number of people, availability of certain services. Payment is made by bank card (). After payment, you will receive an email with your reservation details (reservation confirmation).

Which booking system should you choose? There are no clear rules here, it’s a matter of habit; some people understand one interface, others understand another. However, still the number of hotels in different country differs in booking systems. Therefore, there is an unspoken rule: there is a greater choice of Asian hotels, and more suitable for Europe and Russia.

List of hotel reservation systems

The most popular reservation systems: Ostrovok, Hotels.com, Expedia.com. There are also booking systems specializing in hostels, but now the same Booking and Agoda have become very large services, and they have hostels, apartments, and even houses with villas.

Here are my instructions for each service:

You can search for hotels in different booking systems and compare the results. In some places the interface is more convenient, and in others there is a larger database of hotels. Therefore it is best to use Hotel search engines, which are searched across all booking systems at once. Essentially, such services do most of the work for you. More about them below.

Apartment booking system

I would like to make a separate point about Airbnb. This is a service that offers private housing. Most of them are apartments, rooms in apartments or even houses local residents. This service helps home owners make money by acting as an intermediary between them and you. By the way, you can also rent out your apartment by the day this way if you wish (anyone can participate).

If you are not yet familiar with the service, be sure to read about it, where it tells you what it is, how to register correctly, how to book accommodation, etc.

So, Airbnb offers really cool options that are primarily of interest to families with children and groups of several people. Because often an apartment can accommodate not two people, but 4-6 or more. And with this approach (you usually pay for all accommodation at once) it turns out to be several times cheaper than in a hotel. After all, a hotel would have to take several rooms for such a number of people. Moreover, living conditions in an apartment can be much better than in a hotel. For example, most apartments have kitchens, and many also have a washing machine. These are very relevant points when traveling with children.

What are Hotel Finders?

A hotel search engine is a service where you can search for hotels in all popular booking systems at the same time. That is, such a service searches for the hotels you need right away, both in Booking, and in Agoda, and on Ostrovka, and in other systems. It would be a pain to sort them out manually. Hotel search engines are also called aggregators and metasearch engines. In essence, this is a hotel Google.

How does this happen? You also specify the search criteria you need (country, city, dates, room services) and the search engine gives you the results - a list of hotels. And then, by selecting a specific hotel, you will see the cost of living in this hotel in various booking systems (Booking, Agoda, Ostrovok, etc.), that is, you have the opportunity to compare and choose. When you make your choice, the search engine will redirect you to the website of the selected reservation system, where you will make a hotel reservation. That is, the search engine itself does not sell anything, it only searches. No additional or hidden fees No. The principle of operation is reminiscent of those already familiar to everyone. You can read more about the services in my instructions:

One of the best hotel search engines in my opinion is . It has very good integration with Booking and other systems, it has all the necessary filters, and the hotel rating is immediately shown. I also personally like the display of hotels on the map, since I often look for accommodation in a specific location. And when you move the map, hotels are shown throughout the entire territory, even if I initially specified a different city in the search. This makes it easy to find hotels between cities or on specific beaches without even knowing their names. You can try searching for yourself using the form below.

Book a hotel in advance or search locally

Local search is more relevant for low-cost Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and where there are many small hotels at every turn. But in Hong Kong, Singapore, or Europe it is cheaper and easier to book everything in advance. However, I still prefer, if possible (when I know the exact dates), to book everything in advance so as not to waste my time searching, there are all the tools for this, it’s stupid to ignore modern technologies.

By booking in advance, you will be sure that you will have overnight accommodation upon arrival. You can adjust and plan the entire trip at once and, thus, the likelihood of falling behind schedule is minimal. This is especially true if you are traveling during the season. popular place, you can just stay on the street and not find any empty seats.
Again, during preparation, you can read real reviews from guests in booking systems and take into account all your wishes: distance to the beach, air conditioning, swimming pool, WiFi, etc. On the spot, you will have to go to all the hotels in a row and ask what is available, and it will also not be entirely clear what the actual service is, do not ask people on the street.
The most important thing about booking in advance is saving time and effort. The fact is that searching on the spot is far from a romantic activity, and spending even 1-2 hours walking around various hotels in the heat and after long flight not everyone will like it. No, of course, if you come for several months and you need to carefully select housing for this period, then this may be justified.
It often happens that prices when booking online are lower than directly on site. I remember I made a reservation right at the hotel reception (it was almost 2 times cheaper), no matter how strange it may sound.
When you receive your visa, you may need printouts from the reservation system to confirm that you have a place to live. For example, the French consulate (and many other European countries) accepts printouts from

Despite the fact that the databases of reservation systems are huge and include hundreds of thousands of hotels, the smallest and cheapest hotels may not be available (sometimes such hotels do not even have their own website). Therefore, if you have time, but you are very short on money, then it makes sense to go and look for housing directly on the spot.

Some nuances when booking

Check the check in time (usually around 14:00) and check out time check out(about 12 noon). Some hotels are very strict about this and may charge you for another day if you are late. You also need to understand that if you arrive earlier, the hotel will only be able to accommodate you if it has such an opportunity, otherwise you will wait.
Check the opening hours of the reception desk, otherwise if you arrive late in the evening or at night, you may arrive to closed doors.
The debiting of money for a hotel or the possibility of booking a hotel without payment (with payment at the time of check-in) depends purely on the specific hotel and its policy.
Please read the cancellation policy carefully, especially if there is a possibility that you will need to cancel your reservation. Usually, a reservation can be canceled without any penalties some time before arrival. In some cases (for example, there was a special offer), the reservation is not canceled and the money is not refunded. All this is indicated on the page of a particular hotel. Also, in case of no-show, they may begin to write off money for accommodation.
Sometimes it is possible to book a hotel not only without prepayment, but even without providing data bank card. Of course, you can score and not cancel the reservation later, but I would not recommend doing this, there is a risk of getting fined (the cost of one night). Alternatively, you can register a new account each time, but IMHO it’s easier not to go through with it.
If the type of bed is very important (a large double or two singles), it makes sense to contact the hotel or at least read the reviews, since it is not always clear what is meant in the room description. Although I personally have never encountered any problems.
It is best to always have a printout of your hotel reservation (voucher) with you or a file with it on your phone to show on the screen. But usually just giving your last name or reservation number is enough.

How I book hotels and life hack

Life hack for those who are used to . Search for a hotel on your usual Booking website, copy its name and paste it into the search window for the dates you need. Thus, you will find out whether the hotel is offered at a cheaper price, for example, on Agoda, Ostrovok and others.

After using a little different sites, both booking systems and search engines, you will figure it out yourself. There is nothing difficult about finding and paying for a hotel or guesthouse. I am looking for housing in the following order:

In Thailand, if I don’t know exactly when and where I’m going to stop (for example, I’m traveling 800 km by car), then I look for accommodation right along the route of the service. But again, not without the help of services. I have it mobile app from Hotellook (Android, iOS, Windows Phone), the convenience of which is that it can show hotels right next to your location. Sometimes it’s enough to walk 100-200 meters and there will be the right hotel. Actually, these are not all the possibilities; there you can search and book hotels in advance, which is what I also do.

But in general, it’s better to book in advance; during the peak season in Thailand, it happens that all suitable hotels are already completely booked on the day of booking, and you have to check into places where you wouldn’t otherwise be able to.

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Great hostel.

Great hostel. Very convenient location, close to Red Square and other attractions. No problems with the reservation, polite administrators. Everywhere is tidy and clean. The toilet and shower are clean, I was pleasantly surprised. The bed linen is clean and smells nice. There are some minor drawbacks: foreign guests are accommodated in the same room as Russian guests, this is very inconvenient! The Chinese do not understand when they are asked to be quiet and act as if they are alone in the room, talk on the phone in the middle of the night and ignore requests to be quieter from the management. Also, taxis don’t come close to the hostel; you have to walk about 100 meters. A huge request from the hostel administration to explain to its employees, in particular the cleaning ladies, so that they don’t get indignant and swear at the hostel guests because they didn’t put away their things somewhere or didn’t label their food in the refrigerator! They took this job and knew what awaited them. If you are not satisfied with the work, let them make room for more well-mannered staff! Such employees spoil the mood and opinion of the hotel as a whole.

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In two days I managed to visit several places.

In two days I managed to visit several places. Since we settled not far from Red Square, we decided to start there. We walked along clean and cozy streets to Red Square, visited the Armory Chamber and Cathedral Square, then took the metro to shopping center Filion, the most delicious Pokrovskie gingerbreads are sold there, there is a company store there, from there you can take the metro to the hotel. On the second day we got to Timiryazevskaya, switched to the monorail and went to VDNKh. On the way you can see the industrial zone and residential areas and Ostankino, quite interesting. VDNKh is very beautiful, the place for walking is very good, there are many places to eat for every taste, music plays, you can go roller skating, there are interesting exhibitions, you can spend the whole day there, then we took the metro from VDNKh to Kropotkinskaya, we wanted to see the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. From there, walk along the streets to Arbat. We didn’t see much in two days, but we had a lot of fun.

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Alena Russia

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Over the Christmas holidays I was able to show my wife and son the most...

Over the Christmas holidays I was able to show my wife and son the most iconic places in Moscow, while almost all of these places can be reached on foot from the Kitai Gorod hotel! All our meals were organized in the Mu-Mu cafe chain, good quality prepared dishes with an average price tag for lunch of 350-450 rubles per person. The cafe closest to our hotel is on Maroseyka Street 12 (we usually had dinner there). The most impressive event for all of us was celebrating the New Year on the "Singing Bus" excursion on the Patriarch's Ponds and night excursion around Moscow with singing guides - Father Frost and Snow Maiden. Near the hotel there is the Orthodox Church of All Saints, where the service follows the canon of the Alexandrian Patriarchate. I advise you to attend the service, very unusual melodies of prayers and the ceremony itself. The Moscow Planetarium was also impressive; it made a strong impression on our youngest son (he is 17 years old).

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Igor Russia

Beloved Moscow forever!

Didn't go for the purpose of visiting historical monuments, but for the purpose of visiting parks and modern places. Best places in terms of convenient location to the metro: Tverskoy Boulevard - especially beautiful in the evening, Sokolniki Park (for active tourists), Red Square, Alexander Garden, Izmailovsky Park, Victory Park. Far from Gorky Park and Vorobyovy Gory metro stations. We took the bus. sightseeing tour for rent to the main attractions. We were not very pleased with the zoo - there are huge areas for walking, large animals are located at a fairly far distance from the field of view, many cages are empty - because... the animals are sleeping, there is no full-fledged hot food on the territory - only hot dogs and all that. We will definitely return to visit the Tsaritsyno Nature Reserve and Chistye Prudy.

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Anonymous Russia

The Kremlin, especially the excursion to the Diamond Fund, the Armory...

The Kremlin, especially the excursion to Diamond Fund, Armory Chamber, Red Square, Church of the Ascension and Alexei Mikhailovich Palace in Kolomenskoye, Tsaritsyno, Historical Museum and the Museum of the Patriotic War of 1812, the Tretyakov Gallery, the MU-MU cafe chain. Special thanks to the cafe staff!!! Well done!!! Thanks to the staff of museums and exhibitions, very polite and attentive! Didn't like the location seats in the Kremlin concert hall(we were sitting in the fifth row, the ballet "The Snow Maiden"), complaints came from everywhere! And also the low culture of the Moscow audience, during the performance they ran from place to place, at the end of the event, instead of applause, they turned their backs to the artists and left the hall. Nightmare!

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