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• Camping
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Google Maps might not be the best place to search for accommodation when planning a travel as it focuses on providing a map-based user interface. On the other hand, Google Search has been optimized to help users refine their search queries that might end on a commercial transaction, in this case, booking an accommodation reservation, as this kind of use gives them earnings for advertising, their booking hotel partnerships, and the services provided to the business to improve their online presence and optimize their indexation (SEO).

• Hotels
• Vacation Rentals
• Amenities
• Rating
• Hours
• All Filters

The Google Maps side panel might show controls to help refine your search. These controls depend on the context, like if you clicked the Hotels button or they keywords included in the search query.

Google Maps might not be the best place to search for the cheapest accommodation when you are open to other accommodations that aren't hotels when planning a journey.

Google Maps focuses on providing a map-based user interface. It's optimized to navigate around geographic locations, and the search features are optimized to find stuff primarily based on things that could be mapped to geographic coordinates, latitude and longitude, like country, city, address, landmark. 

On the other hand, Google Search has been optimized to help users refine their search queries that might end on a commercial transaction, in this case, booking an accommodation reservation, as this kind of use gives them earnings for advertising, their booking hotel partnerships, and the services provided to the business to improve their online presence and optimize their indexation (SEO). About this there is a related product: Google Travel.

• Hotels
• Vacation Rentals
  • Houses
  • Apartments
  • Other
• Amenities
• Rating
• Hours
• All Filters

The Google Maps side panel might show controls to help refine your search. These controls depend on the context, like if you clicked the Hotels button or the keywords included in the search query.

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