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SmarterLiving - discount travel information...
an information-packed site with free email newsletters.
They don't sell travel... but instead help find
the best deals. They pride themselves on keeping
current with breaking deals. They save a lot of
search time if getting the best price is important
to you.
- Miles4Sale.com
- you can purchase additional frequent flyer miles
you need to get a free airline ticket or upgrade
to get the most out of your frequent flyer program....
and it's all legal. Participating airlines include
American, America West, Continental, Delta, Northwest
Airlines.
- Travel Accessories
- Airline Portal Sites ("Published"
Fares)
- Orbitz
- of the top 3 airline portal sites (Orbitz,
Travelocity and Expedia), this is the one
that delivers the lowest "published"
fares. It's a little overwhelming at first,
but once you get used to it, is the quickest
and easiest to use of the three. Don't forget
use the buttons that let you rearrange the
whole list by price, departure time, and length
of flight.
- Travelocity offers fewer options and delivers
shorter lists.
- Of the three airline portal sites, Expedia
is the most unwieldy to use and delivers the
poorest results. In a Chicago Tribune usability
test, for the same search, Orbitz averaged
11.33 minutes, Travelocity 14.14 minutes and
Expedia 18.43 minutes.
- Airline "Non-Published" Fares
- priceline.com
- they operate by letting you set the price,
and the airlines compete for your business.
With the right luck and timing you can get some
unbelievealb deals here. I highly recomend at
least giving them a try for airline travel...
first go price the "published" fairs
then submit a lowball bid to them... you have
nothing to lose..
- EconomyTravel
- "Lowest International Airfares on the Web"
They have consolidator (wholesale) contracts
with 24 international carriers that permit them
to offer the lowest international fares.
- Here are additional sources of "Non-Published"
fares: CheapAirlines
(you can coordinate the booking of flights,
rental cars and hotel lodging with their online
booking system); 4Airlines
(discount travel agency); Trip.com
(low airfares, car rentals, hotel rates, with
personalized travel planning tools and information)
- Lodging
- HotelDiscounts
- hotel discounts at the lowest guaranteed
rates
- Here are two others similar to HotelDiscounts:
USAHotelGuide
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All-hotels ;
HotelsAnywhere ;
- priceline.com
- they operate by letting you set the price,
and the hotels compete for your business.
I like priceline for airline travel... but
I don't think their model works as well for
hotels. Because once you commit to a price,
you have to buy if a hotel of the designated
quality accepts your price. When you designate
a specific quality level, you really don't
know what you are getting... and its too easy
for them to cheat and claim they are better
than they really are... and give you less
than what you thought you were buying. If
you are looking solely at the lowest cost...
or the highest quaility... it probably OK
but for something in between, I'm just not
comfortable with this method... though I have
friends who have been happy with the results
they have obtained.
- Other
- EnterpriseCarRental
- I like them because they are always one
of the least, if not the least, expensive
car rental agency... and they provide drop
off the pick up services. Though they aren't
so convenient for airport travel because they
way they keep their overhead down is to avoid
paying the expensive airport concessions that
the majors pay. Thrifty,
Budget
and National
are alternatives to Enterprise
if you need greater airport convenience.
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