As a hotel searcher you are your own travel agent. There are two ways you can be successful at being your own agent.  You can be a frequent traveller that books your own hotels by doing a lot of research online or belonging to a travel agent group that allows you better hotel discounts or you can be the average person trying to find a deal.  In any scenario, you are going to be doing the searches for hotels on your own.  You want to make sure that you are finding hotels that work for you in the cities you are going to be staying at.

If you have never been to your travel destination it can be hard to be your own travel agent, but at least you save the commissions right?  Okay, so when you are doing a search for hotels you need to be on top of things.  You need to read all of the reviews associated with the hotel.

You may also want to stick with well known travel chains depending on where you are going.  Most often if you are familiar with a hotel you will not be disappointed in the stay.  You also want to make sure you find out how old the hotel is and when it was last renovated if it is not a newer location.  The location of the hotel is also very important.  After all you don’t want to be in a low rent district where you are worried about your rental car over night.

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