How To Pick The Right Hotel

Are you planning to go on vacation? Finding the right hotel is an important part in your vacation plan, and sometimes takes great effort and much time. It’s no surprise, because there is a possibility you come to the hotel just to find out the real luxury and facility in it is just worse than what you saw on its website.

Suitability of which hotels to be booked depends on many factors, such as taste and affordability. Cheapness means something must be sacrificed. Some expensive hotels’ facilities include swimming pools, but they’re not for you unless you’re a swimming enthusiast.

Here are some advises on finding the right hotel:

·       Make sure your chosen type of hotel is suitable with the number of persons in your party. If you travel solely with your spouse or with a child under ten, one standard hotel room should suffice. As for a group of four or five, a lodge or a cheap apartment seems more appropriate.

·       Adjust the hotel’s facility with the nature of your group. Traveling with little kids, it will be a good idea to book a hotel with children’s playground or a swimming pool. If your spouse is a passionate shopper, and in case you want to please her a bit, consider a hotel close to a shopping center.

·       If you travel on your own, whether on business or purely on vacation, make sure the hotel has the right facilities for your purpose to have the trip. People traveling on business would like to have facilities like fax machines, telephones, free internet connections, computers, etc.

·       If possible, try to find out in advance what facilities the hotel has, and whether they fit perfectly with what you want. Little things like availability of laundry service seem unimportant, but it will soon be proven otherwise when your hotel doesn’t have one.

·       Take notes of every detail of your hotel reservation: name, address, contact number, and every contact detail both of the hotel and the travel agent which handles your reservation. Make sure you have backup for the notes. If possible, confirm your reservation one day before checking in.

·       Don’t forget to keep the duration of your stay well-managed, to avoid unintended overstay which can potentially harm you financially. Apply smart management to your vacation spending. What about saving more on hotels so you can spend more on culinary or shopping activities?

·       Breakfast is each day’s first important thing. Having a good breakfast is essential to begin a good day, so make sure your hotel provides it, included in your room service. If you can afford it, of course.

·       Closeness to local culinary and souvenirs’ sites is also important to consider. Just in case your hotel is not adjacent to any of these, you can order the items you’re interested in to be delivered to the hotel.

·       Adjust the hotel’s location with your vacation planning. Whether you plan a beach holiday or enjoying local waterparks, make sure your hotel’s location is supportive enough. Whenever possible, after determining which tourist spots you plan to visit, choose a hotel located right in the middle of them, or at least the closest one.

·       Make sure the transportation to and from the hotel is easily available, and the hotel itself is not too close to dangerous areas such as the underworld or night life spots. In case you’re not familiar with the area, using travel agents service will be helpful.

·       If you’re planning a vacation in a high season, you’d better rethink it well. Is having a bit fun worth the incredibly long queue or the jostling crowd? Room prices are typically cheaper in low seasons, so are plane tickets.

·       Online ordering of hotel rooms is always a good choice. Internet provides the fastest way of getting and comparing available prices to get the best one, significantly saving your precious time and money. Yet in Bali, Indonesia, it’s a little different story. Here you can get cheaper price for hotel rooms with local assistance, such as a guide introduced by your colleague, or relatives living there. Typically you get cheaper price through Bali’s local travel agents than through the internet.

·       Reading any testimony of the hotel’s former guests, if available, will be very helpful, since such testimonies are usually more impartial and neutral, describing a real-life experience, whether pleasant or not, about the hotel and its service. Asking for recommendations from friends or relatives about the area or the country you’re planning to visit, and which hotels they have stayed in during their visit there, will be a good idea as well.

·       You can even consider a non-hotel option like family-run inns or boarding houses, especially if you’re interested in getting acquainted with local people’s daily living. Some countries even provide public service to book local houses with unique local culinary served by the host.

·       One more interesting option – because it’s much cheaper – is joining a (free) travel and hotel business affiliate program. After having a vacation, while showing your trip pictures to your relatives you can promote to them saying you were using your own travel agent. It’s quite possible they will use it too.

Hopefully this short article can help you in planning a pleasant vacation with your loved ones. Happy holiday!