Hipmunk Finds Their Next Tasty Nut: Hotel Search (And It Includes Airbnb!)

Up until now, if you've heard of Hipmunk , it has been as the "easy flight search service". But today they're adding another layer to their business. It's an obvious one, but a big one: hotel search. Like their flight search options, if you jump to the hotel search side, you're presented with simple fields to fill out: "where", "in", and "out" — for where you're going, when you're going, and when you're leaving. When you fill those out, the search engine takes off and brings you back a list of hotels in a visual way. But instead of being a graph, like airfare search returns, you get a nice big map with the hotels displayed as colorful dots on it.