What are the benefits of using a travel agent to book a hotel room?

What are the benefits of using a travel agent to book a hotel room?

Catharine Hamm (Travel Editor, LA Times) gives expert video advice on: How do I book a hotel room? and more...

I think one of the benefits of having a travel agent booking a hotel room is that often that agent has seen the room or property and knows whether you're good fit with that property. For example, if you are traveling with an elderly person and it's a party hotel, that's not a good fit. Very often travel agents can help you avoid making those kinds of mistakes with hotel rooms.