Thursday, April 8, 2010

Trip Planning Website?

Does anyone know of a website that you could put in a set of travel dates and it will provide you with a list of vacation deals for those travel dates?



Thanks!



Trip Planning Website?


TripAdvisor does a fair job. Just put in a city and dates for a hotel and there will be deals shown in ads and links around the edges. All the other booking sites (Travelocity, Orbitz, Priceline, Expedia, etc....) tend to do the same. Another option for Cruise vacations would be CruiseCritic.com which will search for dates %26amp; destination deals.





As with any ';sponsored'; results situation trying a variety of sites will produce more options.



Trip Planning Website?


Expedia has a good ';packages'; section.





We booked our upcoming trip to Dominica with



www.CheapCaribbean.com




Here are a few websites that all claim, to some degree, to do what you are looking for and claim to automatically compare Expedia, Travelocity, and others:





www.travelzoo.com



www.sidestep.com



www.kayak.com (this one seemed a little more focused on South America or at least international travel, in my experience.)





A quick heads up...not all airlines participate with all of these sites. I believe it is American that no longer participates with Kayak. I imagine there%26#39;s other scenarios such as this, so you may have to shop around on some websites to see what results you%26#39;ll get, since it seems some companies won%26#39;t play nice with other websites. Another example is that there was a time that none of the InterContinental Group hotel chains (Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Crowne Plaza, and other chains owned by IHG) would post on Expedia because Expedia wanted too much commission from IHG. That particular problem seems fixed, but just another example of your need to shop websites.





Final note...have you tried contacting AAA, or their website? Perhaps they have some ideas.

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