Using the top travel booking sites on the web will make planning your vacation a cinch while saving you a great deal of money. Thanks to its user-friendly interface, Google Flights is the easiest and quickest place to search for great deals on airfare, said Scott Keyes, a travel expert and writer who flies tens of thousands of miles per year and runs flight deal email service ScottsCheapFlights.
For those seeking an ‘out-of-the-box’ travel experience, check out Unusual Hotels of the World ( ). This fun travel site lists only the most unique hotels in the world, including tree houses, ice igloos, tepees and wigwams, safari spots and lighthouses.
JetBlue also forfeits any opportunity to market its credit cards, vacations and other products if a consumer doesn’t book directly on Plus, the airline probably has to pay Expedia for a referral (although exactly what OTAs charge airlines and hotels for sending them business is a closely guarded secret).
That can be a downright existential hellscape, a task that can quickly turn from exciting to tedious as you try to juggle various destinations, figure out when’s the best time to travel, how to find the best deals while you’re on the go, what to do when you actually get there, etc, etc, until the idea of traveling inspires a dull but persistent sense of dread.
In the USA, for instance, the American Automobile Association (AAA) website offers visitors a comprehensive travel service for road trips across the country; it recently became the first online travel planner to list local gas stations in America – and it is additions like these that prove how important information on travel sites can be to prospective holidaymakers.