I finally got around to booking a hotel in Virginia Beach, VA. I have been procrastinating, but decided I better do it before the hotels are all filled. I am running the Shamrock Marathon in March and wanted something near the starting line of the race. The Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront is 2 blocks from the starting line, but when I looked, it was full. But I used the address for the Hilton to search at Orbitz. I was able to search by address, and it would show me the closest hotels first.
The closest was a Knights Inn, followed by a Travelodge, which was followed by a Ramada. The Knights Inn and the Travelodge were only .2 miles and both 2 star hotels. The Ramada was listed as a 3 star hotel, and .3 miles away. The Ramada didn’t cost that much more than tke Knights Inn. But when I started reading the reviews of the Ramada, it was trashed. Everyone who reviewed it in the last year or more gave it a one out of five. Not good. The cheapest of the three was the Travelodge, but it also had some poor reviews. The Knights Inn had the best reviews of the three, but still a few negative ones.
I brought the seacrh up on my laptop computer, and found some new possiblities showed up that for some reason hadn’t appeared during my first search. Also the price for the Knights Inn had gotten cheaper. Cool! I examined the new listings, but the Knights Inn still seemed to be the best deal. Out of curiousity, I went to Knights Inn’s site and looked up the prices there. I was able to book the same room there for two nights and save $20 over the price at Orbitz.
Thank you friend, I just find the rental for my family.
Comment by Sir-PP — March 17, 2008 @ 4:32 am
Good for you for doing your homework and being thorough
Its interesting
On a tv consumer show 3 women were given the task of booking 3 trips
Person number one loved to research on the internet - its more fun than the trip
Traveler 2 phoned the airlines
Travel Consumer number 3 used the services of travel agents
The interesting thing is that no one traveler came out ahead of the pack
Each result of the three was different
The point is that you have to cover the water and beat th bushes for the best travel bargain as you did.
Good for you
Comment by Winnipeg Travel Theme — May 6, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Thanks for sharing the travel tips - i had not used orbitz yet
I have been using mainly expedia
Guess I should be looking around and trying other travel sites
You were able to save an additional $ 20 on top of everything else saved on your travel costs
Comment by Intelligent Travel — June 29, 2008 @ 10:03 pm