SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - November 16, 2009) - HotelsCombined.com, the world's leading hotel price comparison search engine, today unveiled its new total cost hotel results making it as easy as 1, 2, 3 for travelers.

With the new out-the-door price results finalized on HotelsCombined.com, travelers can now compare (1) the base hotel room per night rate; (2) taxes and fees per night; to see (3) the total cost of their hotel room stay -- all on one easy-to-read screen (see table for an example illustration).

Yury Shar, Managing Director for HotelsCombined.com, said: "Given complexity of hotel taxes in different destinations, calculating the total cost of stay can be quite a challenge. When comparing offers from multiple sites it is often not clear what taxes and fees are additional and what are already included in the displayed price. This leads to incorrect choices and disappointments on arrival. Today, HotelsCombined launched 'total cost of stay' feature to tackle these issues and better serve the needs of our users."

About HotelsCombined.com

HotelsCombined.com is the world's leading hotel meta-search engine. Featuring more than 200,000 hotels; ranging from small independent properties to large scale hotel chains including Accor Hotels, Best Western, Marriott and Starwood. HotelsCombined.com delivers more than 900,000 real-time hotel deals which can be price compared and booked through prominent supply partners such as Expedia.com (NASDAQ: EXPE), Hotels.com, Booking.com and Travelocity.com as well as via direct corporate hotel partnerships with InterContinental (NYSE: IHG), Hilton, La Quinta and many more. HotelsCombined.com has received critical acclaims from travel industry experts such as Arthur Frommer, founder of Frommer's Travel Guides and Budget Travel Magazine, who said, "There's now an aggregator for finding inexpensive hotel rooms anywhere in the world, and its results seem phenomenal." CNN also praised HotelsCombined.com saying, "If you are looking for hotels, HotelsCombined.com gives you a darn good search" and ABC 15 remarked "Great website to help you save some cash." For more information or to find unbeatable hotel deals, visit www.HotelsCombined.com.