Quest Hotels & Resorts review

Its product list is hotels and nothing wider. You are comparing rooms, dates and rates rather than flights, transfers or tours. That suits anyone who wants the accommodation settled in one step, and falls short for anyone building a full trip from scratch.

Not from what is listed. The range here is hotels, so flights and transfers would come from a separate seller. Emirates covers flights, transfers and parking inside flights, hotels and tours, which suits anyone who wants one basket for the whole journey.

Emirates shows hotels as one line among flights, hotels and tours, so its room rates sit beside flights and holiday extras. Quest offers hotels alone, which narrows the comparison to the room itself and keeps the number of open tabs down.

No, the range is hotels, with no packages or tours attached. Čedok mixes hotels with flights, packages and tours, and Intrepid Travel sells hotels inside tours and rail trips, packages, tours and cruise. Quest fits travellers who know the destination and the room they want.

Travellers with the accommodation already decided who simply want a good rate on a room. Because the range is hotels, the decision is short and quick. Families and couples comparing hotels on price and booking fees will find it easy to read.

In the hotels listing, sellers built around hotels dominate, at 100%. The stay listing is broader, at 87.7%, with packages sitting alongside rooms. Quest's product list matches the hotels listing rather than the stay listing.

Booking fees sit in both the stay and hotels comparisons, and a product list of hotels means nothing else is bundled behind them. Price shoppers should still read the fee column rather than assume a single product always means a single charge.