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If you are looking for one online travel site to get started, or to use
every time you have travel needs, our opinion is that Expedia is it.
This site is easy to use with the best search tools we have seen yet
to help you find the flights, hotel, car or cruise you are looking for.
As you move through Travel Site Live you will see many other
websites where you may find deeper discounts on last minute
travel, off season, or special promotions and if you have the time
and interest to go bargain hunting...do it. Otherwise, for booking
business and personal travel, with one stop shopping we
recommend Expedia.
If you haven't tried Kayak.com you need to hop in and start paddling. This
online travel site is well designed, easy to use and pulls data from all
over the place to find you great savings on travel.
Kayak.com is a new kind of travel search site. We help you find travel deals from other websites.
Easily search over 100 sites for cheap airfare, discount hotels, and car rentals. Quickly refine your
search to find the best travel deal. Book directly with the hotel, airline or agency of your choice for the
best prices!
We are happy to give a personal recommendation for Priceline.com Hotel
Reservations. We've booked over 100 nights through this online travel site and
have literally saved thousands while staying at top name hotels. To give you a
feel for the savings, in the Philadelphia suburbs the least expensive volume
rate available to my company was $120. Through Priceline.com I was able to
find rooms at the same hotel, and better, for $45 - $65. It seemed the prices
were the best about 3 days before the stay. Once you book you can't cancel but
the savings is so significant it's worth it.
Here's a strategy you may want to try. Make a regular reservation that you can
cancel up to 48 hours in advance. 3 days in advance visit here and click
through to Priceline.com and place a bid for the same area and same quality
hotel your reservation is at. Try 60% of the amount your reservation is at and
see what happens. If it doesn't take it, try changing the region or quality of hotel
if that is an option. It's not guaranteed to work but when it does it will save you
big, If you stay in the same region frequently and use this tool you will get a
feel for where the bottom line is and the best bidding strategy.
Hotwire.com is a leading discount travel site with consistently lower prices.
Launched in 2000, Hotwire negotiates deep discounts from its travel
partners to help sell their excess inventory.
Prices are lower at Hotwire because of the way travel is sold, requiring some
flexibility in details. For example – a customer searching Hotwire’s hotel
rates can search by price, neighborhood, star rating and amenities (pool,
fitness center, beachfront, etc.) but is not told the exact hotel name (Hilton,
Westin, etc.) until after purchase.
Selling this way allows Hotwire to obtain lower prices, and gives bargain-
seeking travelers deals not available anywhere else.
Travelocity is committed to being the traveler's champion - before, during
and after the trip and guarantees everything about a customer's booking
will be right. If it's not, Travelocity will work with its partners to make it right,
right away. This customer-driven focus, backed by live 24/7 phone support,
great prices and powerful shopping technology has made Travelocity the
fifth largest travel agency in the U.S. - booking $7.4 billion in travel
worldwide in 2005.
The site offers many exclusive deals, saving consumers both time
and money on booking airline tickets, hotels, cruises, car rentals
and vacation packages. Over the past year, LastMinutetravel.com
has been recognized by savvy travelers as the best site for last-
minute deals because of its millions of great offers, and easy to
use booking features. In addition, LastMinuteTravel.com has been
recognized by Travel & Leisure Magazine as the best site for
spontaneous travel and most recently by Forbes as a “Best of the
Web. Last Minute Travel® and LastMinuteTravel.com® are
registered trademarks of LastMinuteTravel.com, Inc.
Named for the 59th minute, Site59 is the industry leader in technology and creative
content for last-minute online travel. We use our premier packaging technology to
continuously locate unsold airline seats, hotel rooms, rental cars and other inventory
and assemble them into dynamic, real-time packages available for online purchase
up to hours before departure.
Launched in May 2000, Site59 provides one-stop shopping for spontaneous,
affordable weekend Getaways—saving you valuable time and money. All the
research and planning that makes the travel experience complete is done for you, so
you can get away at a moment's notice and trust that you're getting a great deal.
We are big fans of Marriott and have stayed with them well over 300 nights across the US and Europe. If you
are a frequent traveller this is a great hotel to get to know. Here's a link to their current specials.
Here's some info they provided for TravelSiteLive
Marriott's Look No FurtherTM Best Rate Guarantee ensures that customers receive the best available room
rate when booking through any Marriott reservations channel: Marriott Worldwide Reservations, Marriott.com or
directly with the hotel.
If you book through Marriott and then find a lower publicly available rate within 24 hours for the same hotel,
room type and dates anywhere on an Internet travel site, through a travel agency, travel management
company, or even through another Marriott reservations channel, the hotel will match the lower rate and give
an additional 25 percent off, subject to terms and conditions.
A great hotel chain and their website promises "Get our Best Rate Guarantee"
We like the look and feel of this discount online travel site, and especially
like the prices advertised. When you visit there check out the "Top Ten
Deals", there's a link at the top of their home page.
Okay, it's not really an online discount travel booking site but the next
time you are in need of luggage it is worth checking them out.
shall not accept any responsibility for travel you may book through any of the companies mentioned on this site. Your travel booking and
arrangements will be directly with the source you choose and we hope you find great savings and enjoyable travels.
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