To Rewrite Shakespeare: Something is Promising in the State of Denmark -- Namely, an Effective New Hotel Search Engine

Just a few years ago, an enterprising group of techies in Copenhagen, Denmark, proved to the world that you didn't need headquarters in a giant North American city to operate an effective airfare search engine. The website they created out of headquarters in a suburb of tiny Copenhagen, called Momondo ( www.momondo.com ), shook up the entire industry of airfare search engines and often disclosed low fares and innovative routings (even those within the United States) of which the big players -- Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbitz -- were either unaware or unwilling to offer. To this day, Momondo is an effective website for discovering the very cheapest ways to fly, not simply overseas, but domestically, too (although you'll always do well to compare its results with those of the other services).

Emboldened by their success, these jolly Danes have just entered a new field, that of hotels. Their new website, MomondoHotels.com ( www.momondohotels.com ), is an extremely impressive and apparently comprehensive tool for finding excellent hotel rates in whatever city you wish to visit. I was impressed with the clear listing of 740 hotel possibilities in New York City, in order of price, starting with the very cheapest and going upward from there, that MomondoHotels.com recently disclosed to me, in response to a test booking for New York accommodations that I ran on it.

Next time you need a hotel, anywhere and for any length of time, you might do well to use MomondoHotels.com.