Online reservation centre for hotels, lodges, condos, etc. worldwide, with about 15.000 hotels just in Spain, and over 120.000 different offers from across the world.
Complete information available for online budget travel planning, for free.
The site is available in various languages (Español, English, Français, Português, Deutsch, Italiano) and offers a secure server.
Within the travel industry, as in any other field of economic activity, service providers try to obtain maximum benefits, and this fact of life exposes travelers to many different abuses, being overpricing those services one of the most common. This overpricing tendency is quite regularly seen at the moment of making your actual reservations, depending on the popularity of your destination, the season of the year and demand.
Evidently, reserving a room in a hotel with enough anticipation - and for that matter, any other travel or tourist service - will allow you to get better prices. Moreover: if you travel with your family, getting reservations for everyone will get harder as the date of your departure approaches.
One thing is to get one place, which can happen even after everything was booked at a hotel, bus, etc. when a passenger does not show up, and quite another to get places for four, five or six family members. Statistically, the odds will be against you.
Besides, prices can go up or down several orders of magnitude: for the same room that you may be charged one hundred euros, others may be billed six hundred, and this is no joke! All depends on your anticipation and in this regard, we recommend you to bookmark websites such as the one we are presenting to you now, because they may save your pocket from terrible pains.
But there is yet another twist: by anticipating your reservations, you may learn about special offers and promotions that may otherwise pass unnoticed. It may happen that at your destination a brand new hotel will open, so you may get hefty discounts and in some cases, even a free night or some similar prize. You may also receive an offer to upgrade your reservation to a higher quality standard by the same money. Who knows?
And there are also other reasons to be orderly and book in advance: if you are going to travel to a place with different customs, a different language, different currency, etc. these details may end in big misunderstandings, so you will need more time to inform yourself in order to make the appropriate decisions, and don't forget that you may encounter that kind of individual seeking to take advantage of good-willed and unwary foreigners. And we are not talking only about third-world countries; we are not keen on setting the alarm on Eritrea, Guatemala, Laos, etc.: we have witnessed this kind of conduct even in countries like France.
And as we finish this comment, allow us to give you yet another piece of advice: whenever you travel abroad, carry with you photocopies of your personal documentation. In the event that they get lost, you will expedite in this way all the corresponding bureaucracy to get a new set at your country's consulate.
Anyway, just remember that booking in advance will give you many benefits.