I just visited a site that has created an innovative way to search for hotels. Anyone traveling for business or pleasure could use the Hotel Magician website’s interactive hotel maps to find a hotel in just about any place throughout the world. Hotel Magician has listings for over 55,000 hotels.

What I like about this site is that you can go to the front page and type in any city, airport code or even a major landmark and the interactive map will bring up hotels from that area. You can search for hotels within a specified range of of one to one hundred miles from the city or area that you’ve typed in as your search term.

Just to try the system out I did a search for hotels in the Toronto, Ontario area. Hotel Magician brought up a long list of Toronto Hotels. Each hotel had a brief description, a star rating, and listed prices for the various types of rooms/beds within the hotel. If I wanted to I could sort the listings by Top Picks, Price, Rating, Hotel Name, Area or Landmark. I could also select up to five hotels in the list and view them on a map.

The most interesting way to search of course would be to use the interactive hotel maps. Just look at the travel tools menu in the left sidebar and select the interactive hotel maps. You’ll be brought to a page where you can type in the city, landmark, airport code and distance from the location and then view the hotels in the area using the interactive map.

Toronto and the surrounding area has a lot of hotels, so when I tried out the interactive map I used the zoom function on the map to show just the hotels located in Toronto’s downtown area. Once there I could click on hotels in select areas and then click on the description for more information or begin to make a discount hotel reservations. It was so easy! I was also pleased to see that if I could filter my results on the map by hotel brand if I was interested in staying at a particular hotel chain.

I really like this method of searching for a hotel. I mean, normally when you are searching for a hotel to stay in, in another city you might not know the layout of the city all that well. You know what types of area or tourist attractions you want to be near, but a simple list of hotels doesn’t always give you enough information and you could end up booking a room miles away from the part of town that you’d rather have stayed in. Mistakes like that could ruin a holiday or business trip.

With Hotel Magician you can be sure that you’ll book a hotel room in the area of a city that you want to stay in. It’s that simple. Check it out for yourself.