While researching hotel prices for a story on Sydney, I discovered trivago, supposedly the world’s largest hotel comparison site. My first thought was: why had I not been using the site before. I had heard about the site previously, took a quick peek, but I have to admit I never spent any time on it. … Read more about Find Cheap Hotels With Trivago
How travel writers decide upon which hotels they are going to include in a guidebook or story is a topic that received some media attention earlier this year after Lonely Planet writer Thomas Kohnstamm revealed in his tell-all book how he’d favorably reviewed a place after having sex with the waitress on a table. How … Read more about How travel writers select hotels
Hotel gurus Mr and Mrs Smith recently shared their secrets as to How Smith finds hotels on their engaging blog. Mrs Smith is a Cool Travel Guide reader and after she recently commented on my post Don’t judge a guidebook by its cover: judge it by its author, I asked her how she selects hotels. Mr and … Read more about How travel writers ‘discover’ hotels