Booking.com
Booking.com is an OTA (online travel agency) for hotel bookings and it comes under the umbrella of Booking Holdings. It is an industry leader with over 28 million listings and supports 43 languages. You will be visiting this website for hotel information, even if you aren’t going to book from here.
Expedia.com
Expedia Group, Inc. is an American online travel agency that offers hotel booking, airline tickets, tours, and transfers for consumer and small business travel. It has a wide range of sister websites including Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, Trivago and CarRentals.com. One of the most popular hotel booking websites in America. We highly recommend checking it out before making your booking decision.
Agoda.com
Agoda.com is an online travel agency based in Singapore and is part of Booking Holdings (Just like Booking.com). It has an amazing metasearch engine for hotels and vacation rentals. Even though the parent company of Booking.com and Agoda.com is the same, Agoda often has better prices. Always check out their website before booking your hotels.
Hotelandroom.com
Hotelandroom will surprise you. Least known of all but a diamond in the rough. Based in Dubai this website started off purely for travel agents and B2B. However, it has recently opened up for the public with amazing hotel deals in Dubai, Turkey, Bali, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, South Africa, South Korea, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and France. It has the best prices but there is a severe limitation of hotel information.
The short answer is there is no single best hotel booking website. You must search the prices from all of the above. When I’m searching within a budget or when I have full knowledge of the city, is to check hotelandroom.com first and agoda.com as a fallback option.
If I have little information about the city and I’m visiting for the first time. I will always check out Agoda and Booking for information. I’ll follow this up by checking the hotel prices on hotelandroom.com for a better deal.
Hotelandroom.com wins the best price award when comparing it with Booking/Expedia/Agoda. This was based on the aggregate of our favorite top hotels in popular destinations like Dubai, Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore, Bali, and Thailand.
Booking.com hands down wins when it comes to providing a friendly user interface. Expedia and Agoda share second place. Hotelandroom provides a very basic UI.