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Find your own best
bargains in air travel, the cheapest rates for car
rentals, hotel rooms and vacation packages, whether you
travel in the U.S., Canada or Internationally
Travelocity Good Buy Hotels - Low Rates GUARANTEED |
Travelocity believes that you deserve great travel experiences.
That's why they created their own Travelocity Customer
Bill of Rights and realigned their entire organization
so that their products, policies and employees protect
you. It's on the foundation of this work, strengthened
by their commitment to continually get better at what
they do, that they offer the Travelocity Guarantee |
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Hotels.com:
Hotels.com
offers more than 70,000 properties worldwide - from
hotels to B&B's to condos to all-inclusive resorts.
hotels.com offers the information travelers need to book
the perfect trip all backed by the hotels.com Low Price
Guarantee, see details on website. hotels.com is an
operating company of Expedia, Inc |
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Orbitz is
a leading online travel company offering leisure and
business travelers a wide selection of low airfares, as
well as deals on lodging, car rentals, cruises, vacation
packages and other travel. The site was created to
address consumers' need for an unbiased, comprehensive
display of fares and rates in a single location. |
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Hotwire
has excellent deals on
hotel rooms, airline tickets and other travel products
also has the best deals for domestic car rentals offered
by Avis, Budget and Hertz. Hotwire lets you specify the
dates, type of car and pick-up location. Then it fetches
rates. You'll find out which company is offering your
nonrefundable rate after you've paid. But at least you
know the rental will be with one of the nation's three
best-known rental car companies. |
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Expedia:
Expedia delivers
consumers everything they need for researching,
planning, and purchasing a whole trip. The company
provides direct access to one of the broadest selections
of travel products and services through its North
American Web site, localized versions throughout Europe,
and extensive partnerships in Asia. Serving many
different consumer segments — from families booking a
summer vacation to individuals arranging a quick weekend
getaway, Expedia provides travelers with the ability to
research, plan, and book their comprehensive travel
needs. |
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CheapTickets is a
leading seller of discounted leisure travel products
online through its Web site. CheapTickets provides
consumers access to its collection of airfares on
hundreds of airlines. In addition to air, CheapTickets'
family of discounted travel products also includes hotel
accommodations, cruises, rental cars, vacation packages,
condo rentals and Last Minute Trips. |
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Ultimate
Fares Inc. is a leading
force in the online travel industry. Headquartered in
Las Vegas, NV with call centers located in Michigan,
Miami, Texas, Phoenix and Los Angeles, its award winning
user friendly web site ultimatefares.com has become a
company trademark. Ultimate Fares also
won the Internet Travel Excellence Award for fastest
growing privately-held company in 2006 and continues to
grow. |
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Kayak.com
a good source for fares, hotel
rates and other travel products from more than 120
sources. Click on the best deal, and Kayak.com will send
you to a site where you can buy the ticket. If your
itinerary is flexible, you can boost your chances of
finding a deal by searching for dates up to three days
before and after your ideal travel dates. (While
Kayak.com offers international flights, other sites may
offer better international selections.)
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Lowestravel.com
offers international
tickets on more than 60 airlines and generally a broader
selection than rival sites. |
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WebFlyer.com
is the most useful site
for getting the best seat or upgrade for the miles
you've earned. See how your miles convert between
programs, learn about changes to your frequent flier
program or discover how to max out the value of your
mileage awards when you redeem them for merchandise or
services |
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Priceline.com
offers the bargains for luxury hotel lodging. Works
like this:
You submit a bid on a room after specifying a star
class, the dates of your stay and a neighborhood in a
metro area. Bids of less than $100 a night on luxury
lodgings are often successful. (The site also sells
airline tickets and rental cars this way.) Priceline
does not disclose the name of the hotel you're booking
until you buy; it doesn't refund your money if you
cancel; and it may book you in a hotel away from the
attractions most central to you. Priceline's rates for
four-star hotels are usually the best values available
from online travel sites.
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SeatGuru.com
When flying overseas,
you'll be sitting in your airline seat for an extended
time. Make sure you pick the best seat by reading
reviews of seat quality at |
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RailEurope.com. Traveling to Europe? Note
that trains are often the fastest and cheapest way to
travel within and between European countries. Our
favorite English-language Web site for checking
timetables and booking one-way, round-trip and
multi-stop tickets on European train lines is
RailEurope.com. |
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TripAdvisor.com
is the most comprehensive
and easy-to-use listing of professional and amateur
reviews of hotels in the U.S. and overseas, with about
five million reviews. Its photos of the property and
maps of the location are uniquely useful. TripAdvisor
doesn't sell rooms, but it lets you compare and book
rates sold by Web travel agencies, such as Expedia.com,
Orbitz.com and Hotels.com. |
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BedandBreakfast.com
To find B&B's offering discounted rates, sign up
for free weekly e-mails from Every Wednesday you'll
receive a list of B&Bs offering discounts of typically
20% or more off regular rates for the upcoming weekend
in the city, state or region you want to visit. |
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HomeAway.com
Consider an alternative
to hotels: Condo-apartment rentals. Vacation rentals
generally offer more room and amenities for the same
price as hotel rooms. Plus, their kitchens can spare you
from having to dine out for every meal. |
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LateRooms.com
emphasizes last-minute
bargains at hotels abroad. You know the name of the
hotel before you pay, and rates are quoted in the local
currency. The site offers a currency-conversion
calculator to help you figure the prices. |
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AutoEurope.com
is a rental-car rate wholesaler that specializes in
pre-paid international rentals. It returned better rates
than other online booking sites (for comparable
vehicles) when we recently searched for cars in England,
Greece, Ireland and Spain. Plus, this company staffs its
customer-service hotlines (toll-free internationally)
24-hours a day. |
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Airfare Watchdog
From time to time, airlines will offer unbelievably low
fares on selected flights or itineraries. These "fire
sale" fares, "blooper fares" and "price war" fares are
unpredictable. In our experience, posts these bargains
faster than other Web sites. To take advantage of these
time-sensitive flukes, you must book them right away. |
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A Good Tip: When you pay
your hotel room bill on checkout, beware if the clerk
offers to convert your bill into U.S. dollars. Resist
this offer because hotels usually offer less-favorable
exchange rates than ATMs or your credit card. What's
worse, if your credit card charges you a fee (typically
1% of the bill) for currency conversion, your credit
card company will likely still require you to pay the
currency-conversion charge -- even if the hotel has done
its own currency conversion. In essence, you'll be
double charged. |
