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I always book our own travel and I've collected a few sites that I use. Most of the sites
here I have personally used. A few are recommended by the
Frugal Traveler Blog.
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- Kayak
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A great site for searching for flights. I absolutely love the side filters.
Kayak is a meta-search engine: it searches
many travel sites for the best possibilities. It has a great interface. It is
my first stop for any flight (or hotel) searches.
- Southwest
- SouthWest doesn't allow other sites to index their site, so you have to go
to southwest.com on your own.
- Momondo
- Another meta-search engine like Kayak. Some
people prefer Momondo, but I don't.
Momondo does seem to have better low-cost
European coverage than Kayak.
- fly.com
- fly.com is another meta-search engine like
Kayak.
- Vayama
- Vayama specializes in international flights. Its interface
is a little clunky, but it seems to work.
- wegolol
- wegolo is a meta-search engine for low cost European carriers. The interface
is a little clunky, but it works.
- Bing Travel
- Travel search engine from Microsoft. Bing lists
SouthWest flights, but it shows the wrong flights
for the dates that I picked. They didn't list the flight that I am on. I tried the same search
several times with the same wrong results.
- yapta
- yapta tracks price changes for
flights and hotels. They claim to be able to get refund vouchers; I haven't
tried this yet.
I am just tracking flights that we may take next year.
Seat Expert
Seat Expert is easier to use than Seat Guru;
it allows you to search by your flight. It takes the guessing work out of the equation.
Seat Guru seems to have more detailed information, but I check
Seat Expert first.
Seat Guru
SeatGuru has a a detail layout of practically every plane (maybe all) used today. It has
lots of great information.
airlinequality.com
airlinequality.com has reviews of airplanes,
airports, airlines, etc.
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- Kayak
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A great site for searching for hotels too.
- DealBase
- I haven't used DealBase yet, but it looks good.
- TravelAxe
- TravelAxe is now also a web based application. It does a very nice job
of searching many hotel sites.
- hotels.com
- I use hotels.com for reading hotel review mostly. I haven't booked
here yet.
- Vegas Resort Fees
- A comprehensive list of Vegas hotel resort fees.
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- WikiTravel
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Like its cousin Wikipedia,
WikiTravel has tons of information. Highly
recommended, lots of useful information, e.g. a nice article on
European discount airlines.
- TripIt
- Online free service that keeps all of the your itinerary in one convenient place. I am using TripIt
for my next Vegas trip. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to take advantage of the forward email capability. I had to add all of my
details by hand. Despite having to add the details by hand, it was very easy to use. For my second usage of TripIt,
I was able to to forward my flight and hotel information to TripIt. It worked flawlessly!!
- TravelMuse
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TravelMuse bills itself as a travel planning organizer. The site mostly works, but I have
run into some small snags. TravelMuse allows you to save your travel information
in a single place. It is an improvement over my use of Google Bookmarks. Recently TripIt
and TravelMuse have became integrated.
- Trip Advisor
- Trip Advisor has lots of reviews. A good place to start when looking to plan a trip. I use
Trip Advisor for hotel reviews.
- Rick Steves
- Rick's books are well written and comprehensive. Excellent attention to detail.
- Luxe City Guide
- Nice comprehensive city guides.
- Nile Guide
- Nice comprehensive city guides.
- Virtual Tourist
- Nice comprehensive city guides.
- Flight 001 Travel Store
- Sells all kinds of travel related gear
- Elliott.org
- Christopher Elliott's very informative blog.
- Frugal Traveler Blog
- Great travel blog.
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