Thursday, October 8, 2009

Compare Hotels For A Family Vacation Through Reviews And Internet

By Clayton Dani

When you plan a vacation for you and your family, it's an important and memorable event, and you'll need to learn to compare hotels for a family vacation to make the vacation the best ever. After all, you've waited all year for this, and probably saved for it too.

There are many different sites you can use in order to read reviews about accommodations for you and your family during a vacation. Remember, some of the reviews are not necessarily the views of consumers, today, paid reviewers can give a good review to an accommodation or even something else on the Internet. So not only do you need to go through the good reviews, but it's very important that you go through the bad reviews.

When you go to a review site on a hotel that you're considering, make sure you get a chance to look at several different sites that are reviewing the same hotel. Then take a look at the good ratings versus the bad, this will give you an idea of what's going on. Then read the worst reviews first, then, go through the good ones.

By reading the worst reviews you can be aware of any problems you and your family may have at this accommodation. In other words, if you read a review about bad service, and you only find one review about it, there's a good chance this person wasn't going to be happy no matter what. Or, perhaps an employee had a bad day.

But if you go to a review site and you see 10 or more reviews out of something like 50, then you might want to take the service problems into consideration. The same of course can be said for other services and amenities that the hotel offers

The big thing to realize is no matter what review site you go to, there are many good reviews, it's the bad reviews that can give you a clue as to problems in service, accommodations, food, or other amenities.

Also, you may want to talk to friends and family, there's a good chance that will be able to give you the honest details about a hotel. If you don't have family or friends who know the hotel, start networking. Some one in your networking sphere probably knows somebody who went to this area and possibly stayed at the accommodation.

You might just be surprised what you hear about a particular hotel or accommodation through your network. In fact, there's a good bet that you're going to get a bit of the nitty-gritty from people who were honestly there.

Remember, family vacations makes memories that last a lifetime, you probably already have a few from the start of your family and now it's time to make a few more. It's vital that before you book a hotel, that you research the hotel on a variety of different Internet sites, as well as try to find someone that was in the area or possibly stayed at the hotel. Remember, accommodations are very special to children, they can actually break or make the vacation, so spend a little time, ask a few questions, and then book your hotel knowing that you've done your homework.

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