Traveling advice

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I've been looking into booking another trip soon, I'm curious if anybody has suggestions for sites or other means of finding good deals? I generally use Expedia but I'd love something where I could browse flights by pice.

If anybody has any tips I'd appreciate it!

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  • theirontoupeetheirontoupee
    La Crosse has a lovely airport...  
  • Uncle MeatUncle Meat
    Are you getting another person in on it too? I know typically if you buy multiple tickets you get a better deal but other than that I'm not sure man.



    I've been thinking about throwin the money down and taking a tropical vacation solo in the next couple years, gotta do it at least once.
  • SwiftFrostSwiftFrost
    Southwest. Almost always the cheapest and they don't put their flights on travel sites. If you really want to use an aggregate site (I use the app), SkyScanner is by far the best, imo.
  • FireCat725FireCat725
    I can't help you with sites and airline deals (although what Toxie said is true), but I know of some cool places to go to / stay and when to stay to get discounted rates. Pretty much going during the off season / school year will definitely help, in any trip planning but that's a given usually. If you want to visit the Pacific NW, check out Little Creek Cove in Newport, Oregon (it's a collection of townhomes/condos right by the ocean). I went on a family vacation there with my parents..We rented a two story townhome for like a week and were there during the off season so we pretty much had the entire beach and lookout to ourselves. It was awesome.
  • CamoranCamoran
    If you are looking for international flight prices : https://www.dohop.com/



    There you can browse by dates, be flexible on the dates, and it sorts by price. I use it on regular basis when finding cheap flights
  • 1337bcc19911337bcc1991
    Kiwi is a good flight site.
  • ap123ap123
    I can highly recommend the hopper app. As well as giving you current prices, it's really good at predicting the cheapest time to book. It's saved me plenty of money so far.
  • Andy_BogomilAndy_Bogomil
    Google flights works great to check/compare prices for flights and then just go to the airline website to book. As for full packages I am not sure.
  • NintendoAge ModeratorNintendoAge Moderator
    Originally posted by: TornxieRalls



    I've been thinking about throwin the money down and taking a tropical vacation solo in the next couple years, gotta do it at least once.



    Wish I'd have done more of that before I got hitched and had a kid. Do this while you can!

     
  • Uncle MeatUncle Meat
    Originally posted by: barrelsAndRivets

     
    Originally posted by: TornxieRalls



    I've been thinking about throwin the money down and taking a tropical vacation solo in the next couple years, gotta do it at least once.



    Wish I'd have done more of that before I got hitched and had a kid. Do this while you can!

     

    That was my thoughts exactly.



     
  • JamesRobotJamesRobot
    Originally posted by: barrelsAndRivets

    Originally posted by: TornxieRalls



    I've been thinking about throwin the money down and taking a tropical vacation solo in the next couple years, gotta do it at least once.



    Wish I'd have done more of that before I got hitched and had a kid. Do this while you can!

     
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  • PorkstaPorksta
    When I book hotels I always use Hotels.com for a couple reasons. You can buy discounted gift cards (which right now gets you 6% off), I book through a rewards site (gets me another 1% off), you can accrue free nights (which is basically 10% off), and once a calendar year you can use a rebate coupon to get another $20+ off.
  • arch_8ngelarch_8ngel
    Originally posted by: Porksta



    When I book hotels I always use Hotels.com for a couple reasons. You can buy discounted gift cards (which right now gets you 6% off), I book through a rewards site (gets me another 1% off), you can accrue free nights (which is basically 10% off), and once a calendar year you can use a rebate coupon to get another $20+ off.



    If you can't benefit from brand-loyalty due to work travel (i.e. being able to fully commit to IHG, Hilton, or Starwood), then Hotels.com is a great alternative, since their "rewards program" is basically a flat 10% rebate/discount, assuming you still travel enough to eventually benefit.



    Even if you do travel for work, if you're going places that don't have major hotel chains, they are still pretty decent.

    (I've had work travel to the UK where I'm in smaller towns and only the big cities have chain-hotels over there, so it was all staying in village inns)

     
  • ZBomberZBomber
    Originally posted by: ap123



    I can highly recommend the hopper app. As well as giving you current prices, it's really good at predicting the cheapest time to book. It's saved me plenty of money so far.





    I booked a flight through Hopper last month and it worked great. I had been following prices for about 6 months and it saved me over 100 dollars per ticket by waiting for the app to alert me to when they thought it would be the lowest.
  • Space JockeySpace Jockey
    We recently booked a trip through airasiago.com It was super cheap compared to sites like expedia and hotwire. Granted it's only between asia, but we are going on a multi asian country trip in March so it helped save us several hundred. Might be something you could look into depending on your destination.
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