Ads: Traveling For Charity

Posted on March 21, 2009
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For those of you who love traveling, you seriously need to check this out. I got an email from Chloe of Hotels Combined who asked me if I’m interested to do a charity post by simply mentioning their site in my blog post. Everytime a blogger mentions them on a blog, they will donate $20 to one of the selected charities (WWF, World Vision or Make-A-Wish Foundation). I was pretty excited and decided to do it since it’s an opportunity to donate to charity with a blog posting. Pretty cool idea, eh

The site itself does not belong to any hotel but it works as a search engine for hotels. It helps travelers in term of checking and comparing the prices between participating hotels of their desired destinations. After trying things out myself, I felt the features available are pretty neat. Most importantly, the user interface is really simple and user friendly.

I tried to check for the prices of hotels available in Pattaya and the results were out within seconds. The thing I noticed and liked the most was the currency rate conversion. I think the site detected my host IP and knowing that I’m visiting from Malaysia, the rates were automatically shown in Malaysian Ringgit(RM). That saved me the trouble of checking the conversion rate and doing the currency conversion myself.

From the search results, you can further filter or narrow down your search using the various filters available like the Star Ratings, Hotel Brand, features/services provided by the hotels and etc.

There is also this price limiter that enable you to search the hotels based own your desired range of traveling budget. It’s another nifty feature especially for those who are planning a holiday trip with a small budget.

All in all, Hotels Combined helped me to get the information I needed without the need to look elsewhere. And guess what, by blogging about it, I’ve helped to donate $20 to charity ^^.

To check out more cool features of Hotels Combined, just point your browser to HotelsCombined.com