nyc: Will travel to NYC. Too many hotel reservation agencies online. Do know how to make reliable hotel reservation with affordable rates?|||Contact Broadway Inn on line and make a reservation. It's a B&B|||Just go to the hotels website. They usually have a cheaper rate and you know that it's reliable.|||Use Yahoo Travel. It checks all the (9 major booking) sites at one time. http://travel.yahoo.com/hotels WARNING! Although it is a time saver, it is NOT always cheaper. If you get a quote using it and go to the lowest quoted site directly, you will see a $10/day difference offered to you. Once YT tells you which 9 booking site has the hotel you want the cheapest, go to that travel site and request a quote directly. TIP! If 21 and older, choose only 21 and older hotels. 18 and older hotels tends to be a bit higher.|||You should compare several reliable sites with each other, e.g.: http://tinyurl.com/38oefy3 http://tinyurl.com/2wuweyl http://tinyurl.com/34zv87t Going directly to the hotel doesn't work - in many cases they sell at reduced rates to agencies, and ordering directly from their website would surprisingly not be cheaper, but is always worth trying if you want to do the effort of finding each and every hotel independetly and separately. You can always try http://polistraveladvices.blogspot.com/2鈥?/a>|||I usually check the sites for hotels in an area where I want to stay. Then I go to that hotel's website and see what rates they offer. Then I book with whoever has the better rate. Some sites will let you set a range of rates you want, but you may not get any results for the dates you ware staying if there's an event or your rates are too low. NYC isn't cheap. If you want to stay in Manhattan in a nice place, count on paying at least $150/night.