Title: Cheap London Hotel Word Count: 490 Summary: Online hotel reservation allows you to reserve a hotel in advance to virtually any destination worldwide. There are many quality websites on the Internet that offer online hotel reservation facilities to worldwide destinations. Most of these websites also offer special hotel discount rates, virtual hotel tours, a list of hotel room facilities, hotel reservation tips and a lot more service to make your choice easier. Why reserve hotels online? There are many benefits of ... Keywords: travel, London Hotels, London travel, Article Body: Online hotel reservation allows you to reserve a hotel in advance to virtually any destination worldwide. There are many quality websites on the Internet that offer online hotel reservation facilities to worldwide destinations. Most of these websites also offer special hotel discount rates, virtual hotel tours, a list of hotel room facilities, hotel reservation tips and a lot more service to make your choice easier. Why reserve hotels online? There are many benefits of reserving your hotel online. Some of them are as follows: • Most online hotel reservation websites allow you to take a virtual tour of discount luxury hotels so that can help you to decide better. • As online reservation websites have hundreds of hotel listings, you get a chance to compare between different discount hotel rates, hotel amenities and fix up on the best deal. • You can get direct access to any hotel discounts, special offers or hotel events and cash-in on them. • Online hotel reservations are much faster than conventional methods allowing you to book a hotel room way in advance. • Many online reservation websites give you information regarding discount hotels and combination deals allowing you to save up on money. • You can get access to hotel brochures, discount coupons, festive offers and more. • Most hotels offer 'cancellation policies' on your hotel reservations that give you flexibility. Things to Check before/after hotel reservation • Check discounted hotel rates for extra person, included breakfast, parking facilities, hotel shuttle services, pet policies etc. • Check and carefully read the cancellation policy the hotel offers • Check for special interest rates if any • Check if the hotel offers special customer requests (customer request facility allows you to book a room of your choice) • Check if the room rate is per person or per night • Check for status of your reservation through mails/websites and enquire if delayed • Make sure your hotel reservation is confirmed (generally confirmation should take place in 2 -5 hours for real time reservations) It is no longer necessary to pay extravagant prices. Deals are found daily, whether it's an overage of seats on a specific airline, or unreserved room in major hotels; there is a reasonable travel package with your budget in mind. Travel agents of course, will be able to find some great deals, but when the seasoned traveler makes use of the Internet, it opens up a whole new selection of travel deals. While the prices are unrivalled at times, there are some steps that need to be taken to ensure that you are in fact, getting not only a good travel package, but also, a great one! All of these will package airfare, hotel, car, and even schedule major attractions or entertainment at the click of a button. The prices are often much lower than an agencies advertised package price, and are just as reliable. Cruise travel packages under the budget category have become as popular as air travel and are also offered through Internet travel companies.