- Hotel agencies
Booking.com – Hotel booking agent, no upfront charges (special deals sometimes excepted), you pay the hotel
Room 77 – aims to give more information, right down to the room to ask for
Hotels Combined – Checks all agencies, bit like a Skyscanner for hotels
Trivago – another multi agency checker
Holiday Pad – Unusual accommodation worldwide
Epoque Hotels – Special places
Late Rooms – Hotel booking agent – late bookings
I Escape – Boutique hotels and unusual places
Stay at Base – hostels in Australia and NZ
Sterling Hotels group – interesting places across the globe
Small Places – Unusual small properties to rent
Venere – Hotel booking agency – some unusual properties
Wotif – mainly Australasia, but have a look
Go Learn To – Inspirational learning holidays around the world
Hostel agencies – worth checking for long stay or remoter locations
Lowcostbeds – value accommodation
Hostelworld – worth checking, especially for more remote locations
Hostel Bookers – more hostels
London: Bed & Breakfast offers in London
Apartments and owner lets
Wimdu – for apartment rentals
Loving Apartments – apartment rentals
Airbnb – rent from locals – worldwide
Holiday Lettings – houses and apartments
Owners Direct – good for long stay
Less packaged holidays – Villas etc
Villa Renters – owner rented properties
ocation Specific
Spain
Hotel Sacristia Santa Ana – Sevilla
Hotel Mora – Convenient, well situated and reasonable hotel in Madrid
Hostal Oriente – central and well rated hostal, Madrid
Posada del Peine – central and well located Madrid hotel, and the oldest hotel in Spain
Lapepa – Madrid B&B
Hotel Neptuno – on the beach in Valencia
HT Hotels – Hotels in Spain
Spanish Hotels – Very funky hotels in Spain
Room Mate Hotels – More trendy Spanish hotels
Spanish Hotels – Hospes, special places to stay in Spain
Chic and Basic – Barcelona, Madrid and Amsterdam
Banys Orientals – Barcelona
Hotel Peninsular – Barcelona, basic but good value
Hostal Goya – Barcelona, good location
Rooms Deluxe – hostel plus
Artistic B&B – B&B in Madrid, not tried this place, but good location and prices, I’m holding this for a future visit
Italy
B&B Venice – Highly recommended B&B in Venice
B&B Venice – Orsoni Venice
B&B Rome – Hostal Panda
UK Travel
Natural Retreats – special accommodation in National Parks
Welsh B&B – with a difference
UK Breaks – UK accommodation
Europe – Other
Nice Garden Hotel – France
Hotel Windsor – Nice
York House – Lisbon
Interhome – Apartments across Europe
Hotel Maestral – Dubrovnik
Askanischer Hof, Berlin – much of ‘The Trial’ was written in room 12
Croatian Villas – Wide selection of villas across Croatia
Cross Pollinate – private apartments and B&Bs in Florence, Rome, Venice, Barcelona and Paris
India
Elsewhere Goa – tented accommodation, private location
Hornbill Camp – eco lodge in Kerala
Shaktihimalaya – wow…
Buenos Aires
Thailand
imm group – Bangkok, Hua Hin and Chiang Mai
Sakorn Residence – Chiang Mai. Highly recommended, a little out of town on the east side of the Ping River, but all the better for that IMHO. Staff are very helpful and friendly, pool is small but adequate for a swim.