Where I Lay My Head

I know I’m not the most prolific traveler. That isn’t by choice as much as by situation. I do have to be a mom and wife. But if I could, I’d travel so much more than I do. I love to travel and I love to see new things. In fact, I even like sitting in airports! That’s right, even unexpected layovers are new adventures for me.

But naturally, at some point I’d like to have a place to drop my bags, freshen up and lay my head. You know, I want a nice hotel room. And by nice, I mean clean, a small fridge, broadband inernet (hey, I’m a geek!), and room service. Oh, and a TV for the husband, too.

Sometimes you can get a great flight/hotel package at one of the online travel sites. usually, it’s better to shop separately, at least in my own experience. Besides, I like to get a good feel for the hotel. I’ve been in bad ones and that can ruin an entire trip!

Since I’m considering the PostieCon (convention of bloggers) in June, I’ve been looking into hotels in the Orlando area. There are so many sites for finding reservations that I was getting confused. That’s when I discovered theHotelsCombined.com – Free Price Comparison Tool. Wow! This is great.

I searched for hotels in Orlando and got back 7 pages of hotels. That’s a lot of hotels to sift through but the site also lets you sort by price, location, start rating or even user rating. That’s right, they use actual reviews from regular people and then let you sort according to those reviews. Maybe it’s just me but I always like knowing what other travelers think about a place. Sometimes the professional ratings just aren’t what I’m wanting.

This site gets even better, though. After I decided which hotel I liked, I clicked on it and got a page with 24 sites offering reservations for that hotel on my specified days. Imagine that! I would have had to click on 24 different pages – that’s 24 tabs opened up in my browser – to do the same comparison I was able to do with just HotelCombined.com Talk about a time saver.

Before I could get excited about this site, though, I had to try one more city. I typed in Kapaa on Kauai. It’s a lovely town about halfway between Lihue airport and Kilauea on Kauai. Sure enough, HotelCombined.com came up with two pages of hotels in and near Kapaa. I’m hooked.

I’m really hoping that I can talk my husband into at trip to Rehoboth Beach this summer, too. It’s been several years since we were there. I wasn’t very happy with our hotel at the time but I’m sure I’ll be able to find one more fitting this time, especially now that I’ve found such a great Hotel search engine.

Just give me a few minutes and I’ll think of more places to visit.

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