Accommodations are a necessary part of any travel budget, but with an abundance of hotel booking sites, home stays and short term apartment rentals, travelers have more choice than ever before.
We asked USA TODAY 10Best readers to vote for their favorite booking site or app from a field of 20 nominees. After four weeks of voting, the results are in!
Taking home the title of Best App/Website for Booking Your Stay is HomeExchange.com, a membership site that allows users to list their home on the website and search for homes to swap with in more than 150 countries.
The top 10 winners of this category are as follows:
- HomeExchange.com
- TripAdvisor
- Roomer
- Booking Now
- Homestay.com
- Hotwire
- HomeAway
- HotelTonight
- trivago
- BedandBreakfast.com
Other nominees in the category Best App/Website for Booking Your Stay included Airbnb, Couchsurfing, Expedia, FlipKey, Hipmunk, Hostelworld, Hotels.com, HotelsCombined, Priceline and Stayful.
A panel of experts picked the initial 20 nominees, and the top 10 winners were determined by popular vote. Experts Kash Bhattacharya (BudgetTraveller), Kim Orlando (TravelingMom.com) and Lydia Schrandt (10Best Editor) were chosen based on their extensive knowledge of budget travel.
10Best and USA TODAY extend their congratulations to all the winners.
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The Experts
Kash Bhattacharya
Kash has been travelling in style on a budget for... Read More
Kash has been travelling in style on a budget for the last 6 years, blogging about his adventures at the BudgetTraveller. The focus of his blog has always been to show people how to travel in style on a budget. So whether it is finding a luxury hostel in Madrid (you read it right) or a budget boutique hotel in Amsterdam, finding the best cicchetti in Venice or what unique cultural experiences you can discover in Berlin on a tight budget– it is all there in one blog. Kash has been featured by the New York Times, Guardian, Vanity Fair & National Geographic. He is also the author & creator of the ‘Luxury Hostels in Europe’ guide which you can download for free from his blog.
Kash Bhattacharya

Kash has been travelling in style on a budget for the last 6 years, blogging about his adventures at the BudgetTraveller. The focus of his blog has always been to show people how to travel in style on a budget. So whether it is finding a luxury hostel in Madrid (you read it right) or a budget boutique hotel in Amsterdam, finding the best cicchetti in Venice or what unique cultural experiences you can discover in Berlin on a tight budget– it is all there in one blog. Kash has been featured by the New York Times, Guardian, Vanity Fair & National Geographic. He is also the author & creator of the ‘Luxury Hostels in Europe’ guide which you can download for free from his blog.
Kim Orlando
Kim Orlando is the founder of TravelingMom.com,... Read More
Kim Orlando is the founder of TravelingMom.com, TravelingDad.com, and SheBuysCars.com and a sought-after social media and marketing consultant and authority on family travel. She has built TravelingMom into the solid and supportive 67 member TravelingMom Blogger Network and has created campaigns for some of the biggest names in family travel, from Walt Disney World to Park City Mountain Resort, Capital One to Venture Card, Orlando to Aruba, Marriott to Great Wolf Lodge. As an authority on family travel, she is a regular spokeswoman on satellite media tours, conference host and speaker and has been quoted in media from Good Housekeeping to the Today Show. Thanks to Kim and the team she has built, TravelingMom, the trusted source for moms who travel with and without their kids, was named one of the Top 4 Family Travel Sites by Sherman’s Travel and Top 25 Budget Family Websites by FlipKey.
Kim Orlando

Kim Orlando is the founder of TravelingMom.com, TravelingDad.com, and SheBuysCars.com and a sought-after social media and marketing consultant and authority on family travel. She has built TravelingMom into the solid and supportive 67 member TravelingMom Blogger Network and has created campaigns for some of the biggest names in family travel, from Walt Disney World to Park City Mountain Resort, Capital One to Venture Card, Orlando to Aruba, Marriott to Great Wolf Lodge. As an authority on family travel, she is a regular spokeswoman on satellite media tours, conference host and speaker and has been quoted in media from Good Housekeeping to the Today Show. Thanks to Kim and the team she has built, TravelingMom, the trusted source for moms who travel with and without their kids, was named one of the Top 4 Family Travel Sites by Sherman’s Travel and Top 25 Budget Family Websites by FlipKey.
Lydia Schrandt
Lydia, photo editor and Readers' Choice Production... Read More
Lydia, photo editor and Readers' Choice Production Manager for USA TODAY 10Best, has traveled to more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia and North and South America, and has lived in Albuquerque, Galveston, Austin, Thailand, Korea, China, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and now Spain. She's a big fan of slow travel and hotel alternatives. When she's not at her computer in a cafe, she's out photographing the city, writing fiction or cheering on Barça.
Lydia Schrandt

Lydia, photo editor and Readers' Choice Production Manager for USA TODAY 10Best, has traveled to more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia and North and South America, and has lived in Albuquerque, Galveston, Austin, Thailand, Korea, China, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and now Spain. She's a big fan of slow travel and hotel alternatives. When she's not at her computer in a cafe, she's out photographing the city, writing fiction or cheering on Barça.