Finding Hotels in Croatia

Find.hr is an excellent Google Maps based website for exploring and booking accommodation in Croatia.

The application allows users to find hotels by location, price, rating and type and even view nearby points of interest. Two simple drop-down menus allow the user to select the price range and star rating of the accommodation they are after. Selectable radio buttons in the sidebar then allow the user to choose what type of accommodation (hotels, family hotels, apartments or private accommodation) they wish to book.

Categorised points of information make it easy to find what kind of facilities are available in the area around a hotel. For example, if you want to find a hotel near a beach, you can select 'beach' from the points of information menu.

Google Hotel Finder Isochrones Experiment

Google Hotel Finder is experimenting with an isochrone layer to search for hotels within a defined travelling time of a location. For example, this search with Google Hotel Finder shows all the hotels within a 30 minute public transit travelling time from the 2012 London Olympics Park.

The Hotel Finder experiment allows users to adjust the travelling time, switch between public transit or walking times, and refine the results shown by price range, star rating and date.

Via: Ed Parsons

Finding Hotels with Google Maps

HotelMaps.com is a hotel finder that uses Google Maps to help you locate and book hotels near any destination.

What makes HotelFinder.com stand out from other map based hotel websites is the use of dynamic map markers to quickly show the user the price and star ratings of the recommended hotels. It is possible to search for hotels by date and location but the user can also refine the price, the star ratings and the guest ratings in their search.

The hotels found in a search are then displayed on a Google Map with markers that show the cost per night for a room in the hotel and the number of stars the hotel has. Users can quickly refine the displayed hotels with three slide controls that allow the user to refine the price and star ratings of the results.


Hipmunk, the flight planning and booking tool also has a hotel search function that includes an interesting hotspot facility.

Hipmunk allows users to search for hotels by location and date. The results of each search are shown on a Google Map, with green markers showing the cheapest rates and red the most expensive. It is also possible to sort the results by price, reviews and distance.

Hipmunk also allows users to overlay a number of heatmaps over the results. The heatmaps help the user to see which areas of their destination have high and low concentrations of restaurants, museums, bars etc.

The heatmaps are a useful tool, especially for users booking hotels in unfamiliar locations. In many ways the function improves on Google Hotel Finder's tourist spotlight feature.



When you search for a hotel with Google Hotel Finder the map tourist spotlight highlights the most popular areas for visitors to stay. Google Hotel Finder also includes a useful area search tool that allows the user to adjust the area that they are interested in staying directly on the map.

UK Holiday Parks on Google Maps

Find Parks is a directory and review site of Holiday Parks in the UK. Britains who are looking to book their annual holiday can use the Find Park Google Map to find the hoiday park that best meets their requirements.

The map shows the locations of UK holiday parks and can be searched by a number of categories. Users can refine the results shown on the map by the facilities provided by the park, company provider and even search for parks that are within selected distances of a beach.

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Vegas Hotels on Google Maps

Vegas Vision is a Google Map of hotels on the Las Vegas Strip.

All the hotels on the Strip are highlighted on the map. If you click on a hotel you can read a brief review. You also have the option to view the hotel in Street View, view photos of it from Flickr, read foursquare tips, Twitter messages and view videos posted to YouTube.

Vegas Vision also lets you check out all upcoming comedy and musical shows on the Strip.

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Hipmunk - Your Hotel & Hotspot Finder

Hipmunk, the flight planning and booking tool, has added a new hotel search function that includes an interesting hotspot facility.



Hipmunk allows users to search for hotels by location and date. The results of each search are shown on a Google Map, with green markers showing the cheapest rates and red the most expensive. It is also possible to sort the results by price, reviews and distance.



Hipmunk also allows users to overlay a number of heatmaps over the results. The heatmaps help the user to see which areas of their destination have high and low concentrations of restaurants, museums, bars etc.



The heatmaps are a useful tool, especially for users booking hotels in unfamiliar locations. In many ways the function improves on Google Hotel Finder's tourist spotlight feature.







When you search for a hotel with Google Hotel Finder the map tourist spotlight highlights the most popular areas for visitors to stay.



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Google Hotel Finder Arrives

Google has today launched Hotel Finder, a new search tool to help you find a hotel.

The tool includes an interesting Google Maps interface that allows you to search for hotels by location. When you enter a location into the Hotel Finder the map shows an initial shape based on the most popular area for visitors to stay. Users can drag the shape to define more closely this area, e.g. close to the ocean or along Sunset Boulevard.

Hotel Finder also shines a "tourist spotlight" on the most visited areas in the selected city. Tools in the sidebar allow you to adjust the price of hotels you wish to view on the map and to compare the current price to the hotel's typical price.

Via: Inside Search

Google Hotel Finder

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Finding a Hotel with Google Maps

If you are looking for somewhere to stay on your vacation or business trip then bedmap's hotel based search application can help you find the ideal hotel.

Bedmap uses Google Maps to help you search over 90,000 available hotels worldwide. Using the map you can search for a hotel by location and filter the results by a large number of requirements, for example the availability of free wi-fi, room-service or free parking.

The map markers for each hotel display the current room rates, so it is possible to instantly compare the cost of rooms. The map also includes a drop-down menu that allows you to change the currency that the markers display.

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Find Your Holiday Home with Google Maps

Zon Vakantiehuizen

In August we Europeans like to stop working for the month and in one hedonistic mass decamp to the beaches of southern Europe. Zon Vakantiehuizen is a Dutch website that can help the Euro tripping hordes find somewhere to stay for their month of summer fun.

Zon Vakantiehuizen has a database of over 25,000 holiday homes throughout Europe. The site uses Google Maps to provide a searchable map of the available properties and the number of search options available should really help users find the exact property that they are looking for.

You can search by price, date and property type. You can also refine your search by the properties proximity to a beach, forests, public transport or a town or village. You can also refine the search by the type of facilities the property offers, for example, swimming pool, internet, washing machine etc.

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Hotel and Event Search on Google Maps

Map Channels Hotels

Map Channels Hotels lets you search for and book hotel rooms worldwide.

Using Map Channels Hotels it is possible to search for a hotel by location, price and date. After you have entered your search criteria the results are displayed on a Google Map.

The price of each hotel room is shown directly on the map so it is very easy to see at a glance the available options. If you click on a marker then photos and details of the hotel are displayed in the map sidebar.

Mashed Tickets

Map Channels has also created this Google Map that lets you search and book tickets for events worldwide.

Mashed Tickets lets you search for events by location, venue, performer / artist or by event name. The results of the search are then displayed on a Google Map. If you click on one of the displayed venues you can view the upcoming events and clcik through to book your tickets.

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Finding the Best Hotels with Google Maps

The Best City Hotels in the World

Last the week The Guardian published a Google Map mapping the newspaper's travel videos, called Video Breaks Around the World. This week they have created a Google Map highlighting the best city hotels in the world.

So far the paper has mapped out the best hotels in 32 cities across the world, 'hand-picked by locals and experts from San Francisco to Beijing'. The Guardian says it has plans to add more cities to the map in the future.

You can select to view a city's hotels from the drop-down menu in the map sidebar. If you then click on the individual hotel markers you can read The Guardian's review.

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A Room with a View on Google Maps

Room 77

Room 77 can help you book the hotel room with the best view. Using some pretty smart algorithms Room 77 is able to show you the view from different hotel rooms using images captured from Google Earth.

Using Room 77 you can check out the views from rooms in hotels in a number of US cities and in London. To show you the view Room 77 calculates the latitude, longitude, altitude and orientation of the room and shows you the view as seen in Google Earth. User submitted photos are also shown where available.

Room 77 uses Google Maps with an overlay of the hotel to allow you to see the view from different rooms within each hotel. The overlays allow you to select different room numbers and even allow you to select different floors in each hotel.

Room 77 even has its own ranking system for hotel rooms based on your individual preferences for view, floor, distance from elevator and connecting rooms. Each room is then shown on the Google Map with a color-coded match percentage indicating: "strong match" (green), "fair match" (yellow) and "weak match" (red).

Via: ReadWriteWeb

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