VibeAgent.com Redefines the Online Hotel Booking Experience With Innovative Combination of Search and Social Features

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., VibeAgent.com is redefining the way travelers plan and book their hotel stays by being the first and only website that combines comparison shopping for the best hotel deals, hotel recommendations based on personalized criteria, and extensive social networking features. Debuting in November 2007, and now officially launched this month with new site features and capabilities, VibeAgent.com (www.vibeagent.com) provides savvy travelers with the best deals and relevant hotel recommendations from like-minded travelers.

Unlike other sites that pre-negotiate hotel prices forcing travelers to visit multiple web sites to find the best rates, VibeAgent.com saves travelers time and money by comparing rates from more than 30 leading web sites for over 120,000 hotels worldwide all on one hotel booking site, so travelers get the best possible deal and a quick and easy booking experience.

"VibeAgent is striving to create the ideal hotel booking site, a one-stop solution for travelers who want it all -- the best hotel for their needs and desires, at the best possible price," stated Adam Healey, VibeAgent's co-founder and CEO. "More than any other hotel booking site, we help travelers make the best decisions based on reliable information offered by like-minded travelers."

Serving as a consumer's best advocate, VibeAgent.com's search results are completely unbiased and influenced only by personal preferences and the reviews of compatible travelers. Unlike other hotel sites, VibeAgent.com does not accept advertising or partnership agreements that might influence the order of a hotel search, ensuring travelers get the best possible results.

VibeAgent has several search features to help travelers find the hotel best suited to them. Whether it's a family vacation, golf or spa, arts and culture, VibeAgent.com's innovative hotel booking engine allows users to conduct searches based on three different categories of attributes, or "tags" -- ambiance, activities and "recommended for". VibeAgent.com's "intuitive" search technology is also constantly improving its recommendations as it "learns" about each user's personal preferences from past searches, and the ratings and reviews added by their trusted set of friends and colleagues. VibeAgent.com also allows users to filter hotel searches down to mapped areas as specific as a city block.

VibeAgent.com's social networking capabilities add to the online experience, enabling its users to connect with friends and share insights and experiences with like-minded travelers. For those with a healthy spirit of competition, VibeAgent.com has launched Jetsetter, an interactive feature developed on Facebook Platform that lets friends and family compete against each other to see who has traveled the most miles in the past year. Jetsetters can also comment on each other's trips and travels and get hotel recommendations with just one click.