Saving money on hotels can sometimes be easy

by Jon Mitchell

By using a little bit of intelligence, great savings can be made - sometimes - by making use of new web sites which offer hotel rooms in a similar mechanism to budget flights.

Hotels.com is one and you simply type in your destination and it offers a variety of hotel rooms, which are heavily discounted during low occupancy periods.

This is when you can get some great discounts on rooms, especially in four or five star hotels. There are also many other similar sites on the net offering discounted prices for hotel stays.

Used cleverly and planning your trip with the same nouse, then you could trim several hunded pounds or even thousands off you annual travel expenses.

Other ways of saving money on longer stays is rent an apartment (furnished) in the location where you are heading. Again you can do this through the Internet or may prefer to review it personally. This is a standard tactic of many wire agencies like AFP, etc., who often rent an apartment when covering a story which looks like it will go on for some time.

Cheaper hotels can often be a good bet for a shorter stay of several weeks, especially if you will be out of the room shooting a lot. Many ISPs will provide broadband Internet within hours to many such hotel rooms and this may be cheaper than a three star hotel charging you an extortionate fee for the same. Mobile phones can also be used if telephones are important to your work.