If you are thinking of a trip abroad to some country, you will obviously have to find somewhere to stay for you and your family to stay. In olden days, you would need to use a travel agent and pay them a lot of commission to find where you were going to sleep over. Worse than that, you simply had to believe them that the places they are sending you are actually up to standard.
Fortunately those times are over thanks to the cyberspace! Now you can go to any of a assortment of great travel sites where you will find listings of hotels in the metropolis you are going to. You can examine photos of the hotel, peruse their accommodation rates and even find contact details with the owners or managers.
Some guest houses even have their own site that give short movie clips or galleries of the facilities and the close amenities, Google maps and even online booking systems.
To simplify things, I suggest that you start with Google. If, for instance, you were travelling to Port Elizabeth in South Africa, you would search for “accommodation in Port Elizabeth” or “guest houses in Port Elizabeth“. You could then search through the results and go to the websites that are listed.
There are different travel related sites that you could also use, like Tripadvisor.com, Lonelyplanet.com, Hotels.com and Expedia.com, only to mention a few.
It is also of great importance to review comments left by travellers who have stayed at the various guest houses. Tripadvisor.com is one of the most used sites where people leave their true comments regarding their travel experiences – the good, the bad and the ugly.
Overall it should be pretty easy to learn of affordable, good quality hotels worldwide using just Google and the travel sites that are logged in the results.