Booking international accomodation

crows2010

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G'day guys, looking at hitting up Singapore and Kuala Lumpur or another Asian country in July.

Looking at doing it all ourselves to try and save a bit of money, the flights are easy enough but does anyone know of any good sites or have any experience of booking international accomodation online?

Any tips or links would be awesome, cheers

Ryan
 
Also go to their online site. Many of them have a policy that if you book on their site and you find a better rate elsewhere, they will match it. They will also usually have their specials on their own online sites. Also many corporations have corporate discount rates that you can ask your corporation about. Also other bodies have them such as unions, AAAs (NRMA/RACQ/RACV), and Government (you just need to show them your Government ID when checking in).

Wotif is good if you are happy to book 3 weeks before you leave.

When the online thing stated up, you could get really good rates on the sites like Expedia (remember booking my accommodation back in 2002 and it was cheap then), but the hotels have cottoned on that these other companies and stealing their sale from their direct sales so now most have their own online address that sell at competitive rates to take back their market share of sales.

Ersk
 
along with what AII and Ersk said I usually start and end with:

Reviews of vacations, hotels, resorts, vacation and travel packages - TripAdvisor
to check for hotel ratings. lets you rank hotels in stars, costs etc. and most importantly compare prices over the many different booking sites (hotels.com, expedia, booking.com etc).

also a good site to find out good restaurants and most travel related stuff (based on other people's reviews)

its pretty straight forward but PM me if you have problems using this site
 
I have spent quite a bit of time in Singapore (my wife is Singaporean), so I might be able to help if you have any general questions (about Sinapore). :thumbsup:

Good time to travel there, the Aus$ is very strong.

We always book accomodation online.

2 tips :

Look at the location of each hotel on google maps.

Read hotel review web sites to see if places have any problems that keep coming up. ie imposible to get a taxi from this location/ things going missing from rooms. etc
 
I have travelled there a few times......my work gets has a 100 year lease on about a dozen 3 bedroom 2 Storey Houses. It only costs us for $40AU a night no matter how many people :D

Check out the pic of where we stayed:
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My advice is don't worry to much about where you stay as the train lines are SOOOO easy to use.
Get yourselft a Mass Rapid Transport (MRT) card and put about $30SING on it as it is much more expensive to pay for individual trips. Once you have the card you can just walk on and off the train where-ever you like and simply scan the card on areader as you walk out.
 
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