The Most Obvious Place.....

We are planning a little summer get-a-way to Hershey Park in a few weeks...so we knew it was about time to book the hotel. Little Man....really wanted to go camping...but I thought Little Miss was still a bit young for that yet. They actually have a Hershey Campground.....but we will hold off on that experience for another time....Yeah!...LOL LOL

Hubby and I went online on a few different occassions to check out the many hotels near Hershey Park....it was a bit mind boggling at time...LOL LOL The only criteria we really had was that it was clean, had a pool...and did not resemble the "Bates Motel" Yuck! Many years back before we had the kiddies...the two of us took a long weekend to Hershey Park. We had sent away for Hershey Brochure's filled with stuff to do, hotels, rates, and eateries. We choose from the brochure pictures and info that we had recieved. We choose a cheaper motel....about 2 miles from Hershey Park....and let me just tell you...it was gross!!!! You get what you pay for...in thie instance, for sure!! So this time around...we were playing it a bit safer! We were reading reviews, checking out pictures, and taking our time making a decision...not just picking a place out of the blue!!

We checked Expedia, Orbitz, Hotel Discounts, and Travelocity. We were getting very similar rates between all the sites...at pretty affordable prices. Then hubby decided to look on each hotel's actual website to see even more pictures, read more customer reviews, etc. Then he happened to enter in the dates were planning on visiting...and up pops a window with rates $15 a night cheaper!!! WoW!! If that was not the most obvious place to look for rates??? Who would of known?? I thought all the above sites were supposed to be discounted sites?? Apparently not every time!!