Thanksgiving weekend may be nearing its end. But, it's never too late or too early to book hotels for your next holiday - after all, Christmas and New year is just around the corner! So, book your hotel using best bookings sites for your next holiday trip.

According to CNN, booking travel online is just as safe as using your credit card to pay for a meal at a restaurant or an item at a shop. However, it is always better to opt for a reputable hotel booking website to handle your accommodation need. With countless booking sites all over the internet, how do you decide which one is for you? Here is a list of the best hotel booking sites to make it easier for you.

HotelsCombined is one of the most popular hotel booking sites. If you have only a limited time to make one search, this is for you. This place offers the lowest hotel rates and a wide array of options. You can search about 30 OTAs and booking engines at once. If you are not keen on a certain hotel, you can eliminate it from your search results. 

Booking.com is a leading direct booking site. They are particularly good at finding the lowest rates in the business. They have best selections of filters, including a meal plan filter! It also helps that Frommer's has selected this hotel booking site as its booking partner. How is that for a reference?

Trivago is another one of the top contenders of the best hotel booking sites. Though it might not win in the price options category, it is easy to use and has an intuitive user-interface. It also uses one of the best filters in the business, and claims to search up to an astonishing 266 sites at once. 

Hotels.com offers a complete set of filtering and sorting options for travelers who are quite particular with their booking taste. Since Expedia merged hotels.com's database with those of Europe-specialist Venere, travelers will get the same strong search results from both. This booking website consistently provide\s one of the lowest hotel rates in the business. 

Agoda.com is one of the best best booking solutions for trips to Asia. It is one of the few regional booking engines in the business. Agoda outshines the rest of the direct booking sites when used to search for hotels and accommodations in Asia, as it almost always offers the most choices and lowest prices when you plan to book hotels or hostels.