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Originally Posted by AsianDivaGirlsWebDude
Travel Agents are a dying breed in this age of impersonal cut-rate internet travel sites, however, if you are seeking a quality experience, they can't be beat for their knowledge about the best places to stay and visit when you are traveling, since a good Agent has been to the locations they recommend, or has good direct customer feedbacK. 
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I used to be a travel agent. There really aren't that many that actually get sent to check out hotels any longer. If you have been there then you went on your own back. What you do have, is the big book that gives honest hotel reviews, which most non-agents will never see. It is a great book because it will give you real information and tell you what is wrong with the property too. Sort of like an industry version of Trip Advisor, which is a site everybody should use when looking for hotel rooms.
That said, as I said in the other London hotel thread this week, London does not do hotel rooms well. We have great city which is very much let down by the hotels. They are either off the planet expensive and then amazing or crap and over priced. There are very few middle ground type places like the chains. It is going to really be highlighted for the Olympics when far too many tourists end up at the really horrid inner city b&bs which still exist because that is all they can afford.