Find The Right Hotel in 20 Seconds (or less)

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Find The Right Hotel In 20 Seconds Video 

Find The Right Hotel In 20 Seconds

A quick demonstration of http://www.HotelByMap.com a new web site that let's you type in the zip code or name of a city and see all available hotels on a map in less than 20 seconds. Great when you don't know the area.

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How to Find the Right Hotel in Under 20 Seconds

Have you ever had to go to somewhere and stay at a hotel but you have no idea what's available?

Imagine this scenario, you have to go to an event in Philadelphia, NY (not Pennsylvania). You don't know the area and don't know anybody around there. So what do you do?

If you check out this Web 2.0 Web Site, www.hotelbymap.com, you'll can find the right hotel in seconds. You'll be able to see every hotel on a map in and around the Philadephia, NY in under 20 seconds. You'll see all 0 through 5 star hotels on a map (AAA Ratings) and be able to hover over the pushpins to see what the rates are and what the amenities of the hotel are. You can zoom in by rolling the mouse wheel or zoom out by rolling the mouse wheel the other way.

You can also click down on the map and drag it left, right, up or down.

If you like what you see, you can click on availability and instantly book and confirm the hotel. It's that simple and the way all hotel web sites should work.

All you need to know is the name of the city (just type the first few characters of the city name) or the zip code. It's got every zip and city and town in the United States.

Try it out. It you ever have to book hotels in towns you've never been to, you'll probably say to your self, why didn't I think of this? It's that cool.

paulmcp

paulmcp is the webmaster of video search engine, www.directvutv.com

Reader Feedback 

local-businesses wrote...

Sounds very useful. Got to try it out!

ReplyPosted June 12, 2008

beachbum_gabby wrote...

thanks for the great tips! very helpful

ReplyPosted June 02, 2008

Julieanne wrote...

I wish I'd seen this before we booked our upcoming trip to Europe.

ReplyPosted May 25, 2008

everydayfishing wrote...

I'm always looking for a faster way to find where i need to go

ReplyPosted May 24, 2008

Smiley1 wrote...

Excellent way to find a hotel when you don't know the area

ReplyPosted May 24, 2008

 
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