This site is about hotels and nothing but hotels. Quikbook provides a feedback forum for each hotel that can prove illuminating. We especially liked the hotel map feature on the homepage, which can be very helpful if you’re interested in a specific destination.

The best feature, though, is the shortcuts Quikbook offers for speeding up your searches based on very specific criteria. While we scrolled through Expedia, trying to find a hotel that wasn’t at the airport, Quikbook easily found a winner with a $169 rate at the Southgate Tower Suite Hotel, near Penn Station. It’s within a short walk of Midtown and a good choice for business travelers. At this price level, it represents good value.

Quikbook got the first night in San Francisco for $159, the second for $199, for a nightly average of $179. The only problem we found with Quikbook was that we had to dig a bit into the site to find a hotel’s star rating.

Overall, we felt as if we were dealing with pros who knew the hotel business inside and out. Quikbook is a simple, welldesigned site that permits you to see virtually everything you need to know at a glance.

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