HotelsCombined.com - Best Online Hotel Rates

Hotels Combined, as its name implies, offers you a one-stop shop to find the best hotel deal in over 200 countries. They comb all the online hotel reservation sites to find you the best rates for the time and place you prefer. You can even refine your search to tell them the star ratings you want the hotel to have, or the max/min price range. It is quite a deal and totally free (not to mention available in 9 different languages and currencies!). The only downside, if there is one, is that you cannot make a hotel reservation directly through this site. When you find the deal you want, you link to the hotel reservation site it came from and make the reservation there. Hotels Combined makes money by collecting a fee from each of these hotel reservation sites. And apparently there are quite a few (over 30), as the site brags about how their system searches over 600,000 hotel deals including over 2 million consumer reviews and 2.4 million hotel pictures and hotel descriptions.

"Hotels Combined is a unique free tool that searches multiple hotel reservation websites simultaneously to help you find the lowest rate instantly.



We eliminate the need to search major websites one by one in order to compare prices and availability. Our free service is an amazing time and money saver!"

It is hard not to like this site - as it does all the hard work for you through their innovative partnerships and search engines. You simply enter your desired dates and city and price range - voila! - you have the universe of options waiting for you. This is consumer empowerment at its best.
Update from owners: We have extensive experience in the online hotel industry. Our founders and management team have been the driving force behind search marketing success of HotelClub.com and RatesToGo.com.

The traffic is pretty high, but it seems it could be even higher given the service and the fact that it's available in 9 languages. Do they advertise on the sites they partner with (such as hotel.com)? How do consumers find out about this amazing site?

No, we don't advertise on compared sites.
There are four main channels of traffic:
1. Affiliate Program (we have over 1600 affiliate partners as of end of August 2007)
2. Paid search
3. Free search
4. Direct type in