Travel Deals

www.kayak.com

“Kayak is a travel search engine. Which means we search hundreds of travel sites from all over the world, provide the information to you in an easy-to-use display, and then let you refine and choose the exact result you want, then sending you directly to the source to make your purchase. More than any other travel site, we help you find the perfect flight, hotel, cruise, or rental car. After all, what good are 1000 options when you can’t find the flight you want? We also allow you to setup fare alerts to track the latest prices for travel.  Since we search hundreds of travel websites, you now have to search only one: Kayak.”

www.yapta.com

“Yapta is intended to help you get a handle on fluctuating travel prices so that you know when to “buy low”. Yapta conducts daily price checks on the specific flights and hotels that you choose, and alerts you when prices drop or when they fall within your budget. Yapta also alerts you when you can use your frequent flier miles to book award seats on the flights of your choice.  Already booked an airline ticket? Yapta can still help you save. Most U.S. airlines have “guaranteed airfare” policies that enable you to claim a travel credit if the price of your flight drops after booking it. Not many people know that the policy even exists – nor do they bother to check the price of their flight after purchasing it. Yapta will track the price of the flights you’ve already booked and – if the price drops below what you paid – it will alert you when you’re eligible for a refund or travel credit from the airline.”

www.sidestep.com

“A little while ago, two companies independently created a new way for you to shop for travel products: visit one web site that would search all the others, then buy from whatever web site you want. You, the traveling public, liked this idea, and both Kayak and SideStep have become very popular.  Kayak and SideStep are now one company; we’ve merged. We’re very excited about this because we can combine our strengths and create a better travel search product for you.  Whether you have been a Kayak or SideStep user, you will benefit from access to more comprehensive rates and availability data, a faster search, larger portfolio of products and services and an overall improved customer experience.  Watch kayak.com and sidestep.com evolve over the coming weeks and months, as we will continue to make each web site faster and simpler, and just the best places on the web to search for travel.”

www.bing.com

“Bing is a new search engine designed to do more than merely help you find information. Bing organizes search results and provides refinement tools that help you overcome information overload, get things done and quickly bring you to the point of using that information to make an informed decision. ”

www.dealbase.com

“DealBase.com is the world’s best place to find hotel deals. You’ll find deals from thousands of hotels and other sources, including email newsletters, exclusive hotel special offers, rewards clubs and programs and online travel agencies. In fact, we’ve got the largest collection of hotel deals and discount offers on the planet. All of these deals are presented in a consistent way, so you can easily compare them “apples to apples” (or “oranges to oranges” or “clowns to clowns.” Whatever works for you.) And when you’re ready to book, we link you directly to the hotel to make the reservation.  We take the ambiguity and complexity out of travel deals. We find the best deal for you. Period.”

www.cruisecritic.com

“Five million visitors strong, Cruise Critic is a critically acclaimed interactive community comprised of avid and first-time cruisers who enjoy the fun of planning, researching and sharing their passion for cruising. No other single resource covers the world of cruising as thoroughly as CruiseCritic.com. Cruise Critic’s world-renowned editorial staff offers objective cruise reviews, features, ports of call profiles and destination stories. The Cruise Critic message boards are the most active in the world.”

www.nextstop.com

“Nextstop helps you discover new and interesting experiences through short, positive, recommendations from people all around the world.  The only way a place will show up on nextstop is if someone thinks it’s great and recommends it. Why sift through the bad stuff to get to the good? Instead, you can use nextstop to find personal recommendations from other people about the best restaurants, activities, and hidden gems wherever you may be.”

www.raveable.com

“Raveable.com was founded by two ex-Microsoft database guys who believe that finding a great hotel should be easy and somewhat enjoyable. Unfortunately, our own personal travel planning experiences were anything but liberating. Straightforward tasks like finding a hotel for a romantic vacation were anything but straightforward often requiring countless searches across dozens of sites. We started the company with the simple belief that:  1.  In the age of the Internet, finding a hotel for your next trip should be easy, fast and enjoyable.  2. People should not have to sift through countless search results to find a rare but personally important fact.  3. Earning the trust of individual people by providing clear and honest information will always be profitable both personally and monetarily.”

www.voyaj.com

“Designed for the flexible traveler who is looking for the best and most comprehensive travel deals, specials, sales and promotions on the web to the most popular destinations, Voyij takes the pain out of searching for you. By aggregating exclusively the best deals and sales on the web from hundreds of partners and bringing them to you under one roof, Voyij is the first site that allows you to discover travel deals and sales you didn’t know existed or search for the best deals by the criteria you choose.”

www.besttraveldeals.net

“Best Travel Deals is a community where travel lovers from all over the world can meet up to share and explore the best deals in travel.  Find the best deals on everything from exotic beach resorts in California to deluxe ski lodges in the Swiss Alps.  All of the deals come from you…well the members…and not just the deals, the members decide everything.  The community gets to choose which deals are the most popular, which deals deserve to be dumped, and everyone gets to throw in their comments.  This is a community for all you travel lovers and deal seekers so speak up and share your best deals!”

www.busjunction.com

“BusJunction is a bus ticket search engine. We gather thousands of schedules and fares from bus carrier websites, provide the information to you in an easily searchable format, and send you directly to the carrier to make your purchase.  Previously, finding the right ticket required visiting each carrier site individually and picking through the schedules and prices by hand. BusJunction consolidates this information for you, making it easy to sort through your ticket options.  Now you can find the ticket with the best departure time or the cheapest price without a big hassle.  BusJunction was created by people who recognized the rising popularity of intercity bus travel but were frustrated by the arduous process of finding the right ticket. We hope that you find our site as useful as we do.”

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