Ever been overwhelmed when looking for a hotel in a huge city filled with options like New York or Paris? The flight deal-finding site Airfarewatchdog has a new way to filter an overwhelming amount of hotel information with its newly launched spinoff site Hotelwatchdog. Here’s how it works: Rather than present a huge list of hotels and a seemingly endless array of filters, Hotelwatchdog automatically picks the top 20 properties in a given destination and then lets you make further refinements from there. How do they arrive at the top 20? The site, which is part of TripAdvisor, parses thousands of guest reviews as well as historical price information to determine which properties offer the best value. The aim, site spokesman George Hobica says, is to save consumers time by only putting forward the very best (though not necessarily the most expensive) hotels.

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