Using the Web for Hotel Research

[SarahS]

How do you use the Web to find and research hotels? Do you check out deals on Twitter, use Google Earth to scope out a hotel's neighborhood, or rely on TripAdvisor for user reviews and photos? Let us know here!

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[dhammer53]

Trip Advisor is a good site to see how a hotel ranks. Comments work too.
For Las Vegas, there are a variety of discount hotel websites that have low rates.

Twitter started out good, but lately doesn't seem to be so good for promotional rates.

Flyertalks hotel forum rock!!

[LSKahn]

The problem with all sites that have you rate hotels, airlines, etc., is that most people post when they have something negative to say. When they have had a good experience, they don't bother. I take all of those ratings with a degree of scepticism.