How did people make hotel reservations before the internet was around? I remember going on road trips with my parents as a kid, and my mom had a little book from the Hampton Inn chain, showing all of their locations. We had to pull over and use a PAY PHONE to call the 800# - and whatever price they wanted to charge, we paid. Or we’d pull over at a place that looked nice and inquire about rates. One time we were outside of colonial Williamburg, VA during a holiday weekend, and every hotel, motel, inn, campground and bed & breakfast we stopped at was full. We slept in the CAR!! Three people, crammed into a Datsun - good times, good times! (At least as the only child, I got the entire back seat to myself!)

All I can say is, thank goodness times have changed. When I need to book a hotel, I get online and take care of it. There are simply too many hotel discounts to be found online to NOT do it that way. At HotelReservations.com, you’ll find hotels, motels, vacation resorts, adult getaways, vacation rentals, vacation packages, deals on airfare, rental cars, and more. The search engine makes it easy to find what you need when you plug in your dates and destination, but you can also use the advance search (they spelled it “advence” on their site - I guess they’re too focused on passing on the deals to worry about spell check!) to search by address, zip code, or the amenities that the hotels feature.

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