Using the top travel booking sites on the web will make planning your vacation a cinch while saving you a great deal of money. While Google Flights is pretty comprehensive, it sometimes misses the cheapest fares, as it pulls its data from the airlines (though there are some absences like Southwest, Aeromexico, and Hong Kong Airlines, the latter two of which don’t show up in the calendar of fares) and major OTAs, but excludes smaller OTAs.
With listings ranging from Mario-themed homes to homes designed to indulge your inner Star Wars nerd (and even the opportunity to go ghost hunting in Donald Trump’s childhood home ), travelers can find sleeping accommodations that are just as exciting as the excursions at that their chosen destination.
The company specializes in last-minute fares, particularly the blooper†and mea culpa†fares that result when an airline messes up. Unlike a lot of companies, these folks incorporate smaller airlines as well, such as Southwest and Allegiant, which are known for great prices but are often skipped over.
TripAdvisor doesn’t sell rooms or offer any actual deals, but it links you to partner sites, such as Expedia, Travelocity and Click on the “check rates” button and select the site or sites you’d like to try — a new window with results will open for each partner.
Google Flights makes finding great deals easy with features like a map to explore prices from your home airport to destinations across the entire world, a low-price calendar to help you find the cheapest flight if you have flexibility with dates, and a multi-city search function so that you can check for the best prices between 7 origin airports and 7 destination airports at one time.