If you have an upcoming trip to Springfield Missouri we have rated the following hotels as the top five places to stay. Some things you will find include Bass Pro Shops, the Discovery Center and many caves. Springfield is also only about 30 minutes from Branson.

1. The Days Inn on Battlefield Road is a very nice hotel with good rates. They have a very friendly set of employees all the way to the cleaning crew. The location is great, close to restaurants and the highway that goes to Branson.

There are many people who do not have a full understanding of how websites can offer cheap hotel rates online, especially when they are offering them at a lower price than the hotel. How is it that these websites really work, and is their rate really cheaper than the hotel?

I can tell you, because I own one of the sites, that the cheap hotel rates you find on these sites are real. There are several factors that go into why the sites are able to sell the hotel at a cheaper rate than the hotel itself.

This is an exciting period for people to travel an as there are now very few inaccessible places on this planet. Fortunately, there isn’t a corner of the earth that doesn’t have a travel site dedicated to it so it is easy obtaining information on the internet. Travel has become so easy that many people no longer even bother going to the travel agent and use websites exclusively to book their vacation. The predominance of websites dedicated to travel says just how popular this method is as every tour operator has their website as well to add to the mix.