You May Find Your Best Hotel Rates on a Search Engine that Scans Online Travel Agencies

I haven't yet written about Trivago ( www.trivago.com ) on this blog. It claims to be the unchallenged price leader in hotel search engines, when compared to such fellow hotel aggregators and booking comparison engines like HotelsCombined (www.hotelscombined.com) or Hotelly.com ( www.hotelly.com ). Since hotel prices vary up and down by the hour, with hotels constantly shifting their offerings to reflect booking trends, it's hard to confirm that claim by Trivago. But several recent test comparisons show it to be fairly impressive.
 
Trivago claims to canvas more than 100 international booking sites, including many of the top players. An intuitive set of sliders and icons in the sidebar allow you to organize the list of results by price, distance from the city center, star rating, popular amenities (like WiFi or pool), and type of lodging (hotel, B&B, apartment, etc.).
 
You can get quick popup windows with more details on each hotel without leaving the results list, including a locator map. Or you can click over to a main page for an individual hotel for even deeper information, including details such as which of the quoted rates include breakfast, photos, and a bar graph showing the varying daily prices for that hotel over the course of the month.
 
You might want to give a look at Trivago next time you need a hotel room.