Hotel reservation sites

[Becky (Berkeleytravelers)]

This is a site I have used several times to find and reserve hotels (you can use it for cities all over France, but I have used for Paris). It is possible to sort by area, by number of stars, etc., and has good interactive functions. www.francehotelreservation.com/en/paris/.

[GitteK]

More hotel searching sites:
www.france-hotel-guide.com/parishotels.htm
www.hotelsearch-in-paris.com//index.english.html
www.123france.com/123/en/hotels-villes.php?ville=Paris
www.parishotelsfrance.com/paris/plan.html

The first is the best, IMO. I have used TA's hotel reviews a lot, and after that searched on the internet for the hotel's website. I never use the agencies, like venere or others. I don't think that you save anything - plus I like to be in direct contact with the hotel.
The reverse way round: If I have found some hotel on a searching site, I always go back to check the reviews on TA.
I find TA's hotel reviews reliable and genuine.

[holger]

Gitte is my leader. tend to follow the same pattern for hotel checking.

One additional source is www.parisby.com
This site has very good pictures and information arranged by district and price level.

[sandy]

Has anyone used this site?

en.federal-hotel.com/

I browsed at it a lot when looking for a hotel for my last trip. It seemed to offer very good discounts for hotels in Paris, but I ended booking through Venere.

[teddypolar]

Go to www.hoosta.com. This is not a hotel reservation site, but it is much more better. It gives you direct access to all informations of 400 luxury or desing hotels in Paris, London, Berlin, Roma, Madrid.....You can see very quickly informations about hotels and then enter directly through their official websites or direct online mail. It is free for internauts and very useful. And the best rates are not on reservation sites but directly on hotels sites.

[Truffaut]

teddypolar said:

You can see very quickly informations about hotels and then enter directly through their official websites or direct online mail. It is free for internauts and very useful.

When a visitor enters directly to the hotel's site, is the online visit tracked through a cookie, so that your website knows to charge a percentage fee to the hotel for a reservation? As the administrator of this site, I don't object to limited commercial postings, but only when they are completely honest.

[joan1]

Four posts by Teddy and not even a "hello" ,, sorry Teddy this is not that type of board. We recommend sites and hotels to each other, but we don't PROMOTE anything.
Please come on and tell us a bit about yourself,, we welcome you here, but, if this is what I suspect then I hope your posts go bye bye.

[travelingprofessor]

If you are going to use priceline.com to book a hotel reservation, make sure you go to www.biddingfortravel.com first. It's a message board that will tell you what hotels people are getting and for what price they are getting them for.

I have never used it for booking hotels in Paris, but you certainly can. The best deal I found out about was a nice 4-star in London for just $57 (yes, dollars) per night.

[Shoesy]

I just took a quick look at that site, Tr. Prof., and it seems like it can be very helpful. I'm not sure I would ever be adventurous enough to actually take advantage of booking through priceline.com, though I'm sure you can save lots of money by doing so.