Consumers searching for the best deal on hotel rooms on the Internet should shop around, since no single travel site stands head and shoulders above rivals, a consumer advocacy group said Wednesday.

Consumer WebWatch, a project of Consumers Union, said that while the Internet offers cheap fares compared with the system traditionally used by travel agents, travel Web sites do not handle mistakes well and fail to deliver lists of the cheapest hotels without extra clicks.

"We were surprised that the market is so confusing," WebWatch Director Beau Brendler said in a telephone interview.

Site Travelocity offered the best hotel rates more often than competitors Expedia, Hotels.com, Lodging.com and Orbitz, but not regularly enough to make it a one-stop-shopping destination, the report said.

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