When you are travelling on budget, you need to make sure that you can cut costs on all aspects like transportation and especially accommodation. There are a lot of budget hotels in the world but how do you know if they provide quality service? There are several online sites that could help you decide and they are the following:
- Trip Advisor. The site boasts of more than 5 million reviews from different travelers, and most reviews usually tackle hotels and accommodations that they have stayed during their vacation. An interesting feature of this site is that hotels are ranked based on the number of reviews they have. But you have to read the reviews to make sure that the hotel really does give the expected service.
- Orbitz. When you pick a hotel out of the many on the list, you will find on the right side of the window the user score (the ratings that a guest has given to the hotel) and the number of reviews that is written for the hotel.
- Hostels.com. This kind of accommodation vary in quality and style that is why reviews about certain hostels are helpful because they determine the kind of services and amenities that they offer, if it would suit your tastes. The review of each hostel is expressed in percent. If you want to stay on a hostel on your next vacation, this is the site to check out.
- Travelocity. The review rate is seen as smiley faces from 1-5, more smiles means more positive feedback. To know that a place is frequently visited you can see a sign saying most reviewed when the name of the hotel appears.
- Frommers. This is not just the reviews of users who have been there but the opinions of the staff of the Frommers website. The rating is expressed in stars. And if you did not see the hotel that you want to visit it can be that it has never been visited by others or it is not worthy of any mention.
- Travelpost. The mechanics of reviewing certain hotels or properties is through grading it in an overall manner from the quality of service, to the attitude of the staff in the hotel, condition of the room and the amenities and the over-all cleanliness. This method from the site is actually systematic and it gives you a clear picture of what you should expect from a particular hotel.