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 Hotelreservations.com is a hotel booking site for top cities in North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. Despite the name, this website also handles bookings for flights, cars, vacation rentals and vacation. As you would expect, the site’s design and functionality are the similar to other travel booking sites you might have visited. If you are a minimalist, you might like the site’s simple design with basic search engines and essential information: a detailed FAQ section which might answer many of your booking-related questions and a great collection of fairly detailed travel guides for many cities.

However, I think the site has a lot to improve on its user-interface as it is difficult to find information on a totally white-background with no special font or catchy color to attract users’ attention.

Other than this minor issue, Hotelreservation seems to be able to fulfill your basic travel needs.

I am taking a look at another hotel booking website for Europe, Eurobookings, which offers hotels from top-notch European cities including but not limited to Paris, London, Rome, Barcelona, Prague, Amsterdam, Vienna and Athens.

Pretty much, the site’s design and functionality are the similar to any other hotel booking site you might have visited. You can list the hotels based on popularity, prices and star ratings or on a popular location like your departure/arrival airport, a monument or a district within the city. If you choose the latter option, you will see, next to each hotel, a link to a map showing its position. This feature is especially helpful if you are first-time travelers to a city and have time finding the location of the hotel from its address.

Read Eurobookings’ hotel guide for other travelers’ opinions and reviews to make better decision. It is an excellent read, not just about the hotels but about the city and culture as well. The site’s content is available in 13 languages, thus might still be useful to your friends who don’t understand English.