You might also ask them if they have better rates if you book three or even more nights.You may confirm that they're going to hold the reservation if you're going to arrive after 6PM or perhaps you have other request that routinely won't be answered by the large sites. Search the travel forums and blogs almost all of the large ones like the Thorn Tree have a
large amount of information so you have got to read a lot to get to the beef but there's still some good information to be gleaned here as they are an excellent method to work out what section of the city that you wish to stay, as an example in Bangkok the 3 largest areas are Koh Sahn Rd Suhkumvitt which includes Soi Nana and Soi Cowboy and Patpong all
three have a lot of touristy things to do like night markets and for Suhkumvitt and Patpong a decidedly mature audiences only feel where as Khao Sahn is geared to palace brook and the hard core backpackers after you have that start typing in budget hotels Town name and then the area either Suhkumvitt or Khao Sahn Rd Patpong you'll see the results
will change a lot and some of the smaller sites will begin to appear. Go to the massive travel and hotel sites and look for hotels in the area that you would like to be plenty will separate by neighbour hood in the huge towns like HK, Sydney, Singapore Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.

You may identify on many sites number of stars if you happen to be looking for bargain hotels you would stipulate one and two star perhaps three stars for China Write down two or three hotels that seem promising and then search there names directly employing a search string of town name, neighborhood name, name of hotel this generally will pop the
hotels web site onto the top page. When you have the hotel site check the rates and then make your call. Have fun!