Steven Scholnick » Travel Links

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.

Flights
Kayak
A great site for searching for flights. I absolutely love the side filters.
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.
Vayama
Vayama specializes in international flights. Its interface is a little clunky, but it seems to work.
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 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.
wegolol
wegolo is a meta-search engine for low clost European carriers. The interface is a little clunky, but it works.
Bing Travel
Travel search engine from Microsoft. I haven't really tried it yet
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.
Hotels
Kayak
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.
Other Helpful Sites
WikiTravel
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!!
Recently TripIt and yapta have became integrated.
TravelMuse
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.
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.