Hotel Booking Secrets

From a Free as a Bird lifestyle perspective I must say that we do not like to stay in hotels or even extended-stay hotels for more than a few days. They are expensive and the comfort is always minimal compared to fully furnished apartments.

Nevertheless, we have to book them when we land in an unfamiliar city or when we visit the countryside for an escapade.

Booking hotels over the Internet is easy. There are zillions of web sites to choose from. For that same reason, this is exactly why you absolutely need to check Hotel Combined.

Their meta search engine is configured to compare over 200,000 hotels in 20,000 destinations across 195 countries. And most important of all, it also compares the prices quoted by dozens of hotel booking sites. We think that it provides a nice start to the hotel booking process.

Using HotelsCombined for Evaluating
The Cost of a Furnished Apartment Anywhere

We also use this search engine to get an idea of the approximate rental cost of a furnished apartment in any given city.

By multiplying the median daily room price by ten you can get an estimate of the monthly rental cost of a furnished apartment.

If you can find a lot of three-star hotels in the $50/night range, it is likely that you can also find pleasant furnished apartments for $500/month.

This is not an absolute rule because sometimes you can find affordable apartments even if the median daily room price is higher. The contrary can also hold true. But, all in all, we like to use this technique for a primary evaluation in order to discover little-known Free as a Bird places of paradise.