Category Archives: Travel

Cheapest airfares and tickets

You can always find the best available fare on specific destination if you know how. Here is what you need to know.

You don’t have the luxury to check every airline for cheap ticket and you cannot afford to hire travel agent to do this for you. No problem, welcome to the world of travel aggregators.  These travel aggregator website will search the best airfares available, and will do it for you for free. These are my favorites, give a shot.

 Kayak   Farechase   Sidestep   Mobissimo   Bing Travel
Momondo   Fly.Com   Vayama   CheapOair (This is not an aggregator but we like their best deals)

Best Travel Booking Engines

These sites are what I consider the best online travel site engine out there in the market. These are not ranking but a list of the best travel site engines that should be your starting point.

Here is the list accompanied by few sentences quoted from the about section of the respective company websites.

“Momondo is a cutting edge web 2.0 travelsite with the best flight search engine on the world wide web. We search across multiple websites at google style top-speed to within seconds give you an overview of the cheapest flights we can find. No other flight search engine searches as many websites as Momondo and our network is constantly expanding.”

“…We help people find the best travel choices easily by searching the data from hundreds of travel sites at once. KAYAK lets you compare options, and when you find something that fits your budget and tastes, you book it where you want: at the airline site, from the hotel, or from a travel agent…”

This does not need explanation it is owned Micrsoft and it has all the cool features you expect from Microsft Bing Search Engine.

“The Best Place to Find Cheap Flights. We search and compare online travel agencies and hundreds of airlines for the cheapest airfares, all in real time. Then we show you where you can book your flights.”

“Vayama.com is a first-of-its kind travel Web site that gives Americans a whole new world of choice in international air travel. Using the latest in web technologies, vayama offers a massive selection of airlines, flights and fares, many never previously available online, so you can find the lowest prices and best schedule options for all your international travel.”

Top 5 Travel Ticket Sites

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KAYAK & SIDESTEP : If you are looking for cheap flights, airline ticket and a hotel head to Kayak.com or SIDESTEP. KAYAK pulls data from Airfare.com, Vayama, Hotwire Expedia and Travelocity where SIDESTEP also pulls from over 600 airlines and hundreds of sites. SIDESTEP has nifty tools and is no less powerful than Kayak.  Both companies are one now but they have evolved differently and there are features you can find from one site that is not available on the other. I like the Airport guide feature at SIDESTEP but I regularly use Kayak.  Think of it as a Mall where all your travel needs are met.

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TripAdvisor.com I like to read the reviews of particular hotel or airline before I book and buy. I found the reviews at TripAdvisor.com. I found them so useful that I decided to contribute and as a result I pay close attention when I am traveling for customer service.

 

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Hotels.com: The name says it all. I found when I book through hotels.com, the room is usually is better than expected. I am not sure if I am superstitious here or they show more respect to hotels.com customers.

 

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 AirBnB: The economy is not doing great and we cannot all afford expensive hotel. AirBnB comes to the rescue. Their motto says it all “Travel like Human” you actually rent and stay with real people. Hey if you don’t mind living and renting from real person, why not give a try.  

 

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Nextstop: Why travel if you are not seeing  places the locals recommend. The people who actually live there recommend the best places. The website says it all ”Share what you love to do near where you live. Discover places other people love all over the world.”

Amazing Fireworks at Dubai Atlantis Hotel & Resort

Amazing Fireworks at Dubai Atlantis Hotel & Resort. I visit few months after opening and it was awsome place.