Now that you have bought the plane ticket, it is time to think about your accommodation; Booking a hotel, renting a house or a room in a tourist resort?! The evidence shows that despite the significant growth of various residences and rental houses, the hotel still has a special place among travelers and is among the first choices of each of them. Many travelers prefer a hotel for a few days stay without knowing what tips to consider to get a great hotel experience. In this article, we have mentioned some points that should be considered before and after booking the hotel.
Points to consider when researching hotels
It doesn't matter whether you are going on a domestic trip in Iran or you are going to go further to try another country and culture. It doesn't even matter if you intend to travel for business or pleasure; Here are some essential hotel booking tips that work anywhere in the world. In the following, we will take a look at these so-called universal points.
Compare prices
You probably know that different websites may offer the same hotel rooms at different prices. As a result, before you book a hotel, you should get complete information about the price difference. Visit the site and find out about the possible discounts of each of them. Book the best at the lowest price.
Some sites have attractive offers for their travelers; You may be able to get a special room for several nights in a row for much cheaper, or buy a plane ticket and get a room for half the price. So don't be hasty in booking a hotel.
Check hotel cancellation policy
It is a trip and a thousand and one unexpected events! Your schedule may change for any reason or you may prefer to replace the hotel you have booked with another hotel. If you want to keep your money or save your time in situations like this, be sure to check the cancellation rules carefully before booking a hotel.
Note that in some hotels you can deactivate the room reservation up to 24 hours and in others up to 72 hours. Some hotels charge a fine for canceling the contract, and other hotels proceed with the cancellation process without any fines. If you have booked a hotel from Ozhan agency, you just need to book a ticket through one of the Android or iOS software. If you want to know about the hotel cancellation rules in Ozhan agency, take a look at the frequently asked questions.
Review other people's opinions about the hotel
Go find the comments of travelers about each of the hotels and read them carefully. See what their experience of staying in that hotel is. Make sure that the person who posted the comment; is a real person. How? Take a good look at his profile and profile picture. Read at least ten or twelve comments. These reviews can give a good picture of the service, cleanliness, staff behavior and atmosphere.
Make sure breakfast is free
Hotels often offer a free breakfast service to their guests along with the room. The cost of restaurants in hotels is very high. As a result, the free breakfast service is a kind of saving; Especially if you are on your way to America or France.
Check the location of the hotel
We said before that you should never rush to book a hotel; Especially a cheap hotel. The location of the hotel plays a significant role in the cost of renting each of its rooms: undoubtedly, a hotel in the city center will be more expensive than a hotel in the suburbs of the same city. Use Google Map to navigate the hotel and measure its location well, because if the hotel is far from the city, you will have to resort to expensive services such as Uber to reach the center. In this way, you will inevitably spend more time commuting.
Another important issue in checking the location of the hotel is the security and also the tranquility that exists around it. Google Street is another software that will help you check the atmosphere of the streets around the hotel.
Check the payment rules for hotel reservations
If you are booking a foreign hotel from a foreign website, you must have a credit card, but if you want to book a hotel in one of Iran's cities, a debit card and its second password are also sufficient. If you have done the hotel reservation process with your own name, then try to use the debit card that has your name on it for payment.
Pay attention to the hotel's ventilation conditions
You must be saying to yourself, what else are these words?! Proper ventilation is one of the basic requirements of any hotel, but it is not really like this. Before booking a hotel, make sure it has proper ventilation. For example, before booking a domestic hotel in the south of Iran, which has special weather conditions, ask the hotel officials about the air conditioning system, or find out about its quality from the comments of previous travelers of that hotel.
Make sure that free internet is available
Internet access is one of the main needs of every traveler; Both those who have traveled for a business mission and those who go to this and that city for fun. In the meantime, some hotels have a shared internet and in some hotels, despite providing the service, the level of access is very poor.
Check the hotel check-in and check-out time
If you want to arrive at your hotel in the middle of the night or early in the morning, make sure that the hotel reception desk is open at that time of the day or night and they are ready to receive you earlier than the appointed time. Some hotels are willing to do this for you for free and without a late fee; Of course, if the room you plan to live in is free.
Check the luggage storage
Suppose you arrived at the hotel a few hours earlier or later than the appointed time and you have to wait for the room preparation process, what will you do with your luggage during this time?! Therefore, before booking a hotel, you must get important and accurate information about the capacity of its luggage storage and the security of these storages. If luggage storage is not available in the hotel, you should think about a suitable place for your luggage.
Make sure of the kitchen
Not always, but in some cases, every room in a hotel has a small kitchen with limited equipment that can relieve you from eating out. In this way, travel is more affordable than ever. See if the hotel room you are booking has a kitchen or not!
Make sure the hotel photos are real
The images of some hotels on the sites are sometimes not real; They use a thousand and one tricks to persuade travelers to take a room from them. They do their job, but passengers should also make sure that the photo is correct. We suggest you use the two softwares we introduced earlier (Google Street and Google Maps) to verify the images.
Check the parking price
If you have missed booking a plane ticket and plan to travel by car, check the parking of the hotel you plan to book, because some hotels either don't have parking at all or charge per hour for parking. Check the parking rental price.
Check for additional taxes and fees
Not in Iran, but in some foreign cities, the municipality demands an excess tax on the cost of room reservation, which is not included in the cost of staying in a hotel. Some hotels charge an additional amount for booking in addition to the accommodation fee. Be sure to check such taxes and additional fees before booking a hotel.
Check out all the extras
Are you traveling alone or with your pet, do you need to exercise in the gym while traveling or do you want to go on a tour and take advantage of the free bikes? All these and other things of this category are considered to be extra facilities of the hotel.
5 tips about booking a foreign hotel that you cannot underestimate
Until now, we have tried to check the general points about booking domestic and foreign hotels respectively. Despite this, there are tips that work well only when booking foreign hotels. In the following, you will get to know five key points for booking a foreign hotel:
You must book a hotel before traveling abroad
no way; To get a visa, you must clarify your place of residence before traveling to a foreign country. If none of your acquaintances live outside of Iran, you have to convince the hotel officer to issue a visa with Watcher. As a result, it is better to find out the duty of your place of residence at the same time as buying a foreign plane ticket.
Bring the necessary documents for check-in
But Watcher's functionality is not limited to issuing visas. You must bring the voucher when you check in at the hotel. Watcher is actually the confirmation of room reservation that you received before after booking a hotel. In your watcher, there is complete information such as hotel, reserved room, cancellation conditions, number of passengers, services, and check-in and check-out times.
Take some cash with you when entering the hotel
As we mentioned earlier, some cities will charge you a tourist tax upon arrival, and the hotel staff will look to you for a tip. In this situation, you must have some currency with you. Our advice to you: don't set foot in the hotel without cash.
Foreign websites are not the only ones that help you book a hotel. In Iran, there are reliable domestic sites such as Ozhan agency, which accompany you step by step until booking a room in a suitable hotel. You don't need a credit card, PayPal, or foreign payment services to book a hotel from Ozhan agency.
Remove the most frequently used foreign words in the hotel
Usually, the employees of all the hotels who have secrets in their heads can communicate with you through English language to an acceptable extent, but this does not work for all hotels. For example, if you are going to a third-class foreign hotel in Georgia, you must be able to say simple and basic sentences in Georgian. Be sure to take one of the frequently used vocabulary guide books with you.
