You probably search google for a hotel in the area you want to stay, pick the first booking agent that pops up, find a hotel and book it?  That's what most people do. It never crossed my mind that by using a different booking agent, it might be cheaper. I might have been naive but I always assumed that the prices the booking agents were showing were what the hotel was charging. When I first used the Hotels Combined search engine, I couldn't believe some of the price differences between the booking agencies.  Often, the same hotels, same dates and the same accommodation had price differences of over thirty euros a night!  Most hotels I checked, had price variations between 10 and 30 euros a night.

Hotels Combined is a free to use independent search engine. It has the world's largest online hotel database with over 200,000 hotels in 20,000 destinations and shows the prices being quoted from all the major online booking agencies in a matter of seconds.  All you do is enter your destination and dates then wait a few seconds while it searches the database to find the best prices on offer.