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Xiamen Airlines has one stop flights from LAX to Hong Kong at $401, but the price drops to $377 round trip through Expedia.com. These fares are available for most dates for travel departures through early May. Expedia.com ticket Xiamen Airlines LAX – Xiamen XMN – Hong Kong HKG – XMN – LAX $376.76 round trip …
A tip for trip planning in equatorial places on the other side of the world is check the best time of year to travel. April and May are listed as two of the best shoulder season months for a trip to Bali when weather is good and hotel prices are lower. Expedia has $494 China…
United and SAS have low fares to Scandinavian airports in Denmark, Norway and Sweden at $551 to $603 for travel from late September and October. Ticket prices go up about $30 to $60 in November. These prices show up on Google Flights, but no online booking links. Momondo.com finds online travel agencies with the low…
The most important aspect of an airline ticket price for a frequent flyer is knowing the airline ticket ‘fare class’ or ‘booking code’ for your flights. Knowing the fare class letter for your flight segment is often vital for knowing how many frequent flyer miles you earn for your flight. Problems finding Booking Class in…
What financial experts in the hotel industry say is driving the move for hotel chain consolidation is Expedia and Priceline. These two online travel agencies (OTAs) control most of the hotel distribution bookings globally, they gobble up their OTA competition and their share of hotel bookings distribution is growing globally. The Priceline Group “Priceline: With…
Expedia continues to buy up online travel sites with its latest travel website acquisition priced at $3.9 billion for HomeAway, a vacation rental site. Expedia bought legacy online travel agencies Travelocity and Orbitz earlier this year. Expedia also owns Hotels.com, HotWire.com and Trivago.com. Perhaps most amazing is Expedia has a market valuation of $18 billion,…
One of the best all-purpose hotel values in this year’s Daily Getaways is today’s Expedia $1,000 coupon for $650. This deal also provides elite Gold status in Expedia+ through February 2016, a loyalty program that provides free wi-fi and upgrades at Expedia VIP access hotels. Here are benefits for Expedia+ members. Gold Status normally requires…
Expedia has never let me down when it comes to approved best rate guarantee claims. I probably have 50% or more of Best Rate Guarantee claims denied, yet lower rates found on Expedia have always been approved as far as I recall. Choice Hotels Best Rate Guarantee free night came through for me in Vancouver…
EyeforTravel.com published an article yesterday, Amazon’s online travel march continues and enviable lessons in how to do it from Japan, on the potential for Amazon.com to expand into the online hotel booking market with a proposition hotels may favor over Expedia and Priceline. Web buzz suggests Amazon could have a major impact in the online…
Hilton has a bad reputation for approving Best Rate Guarantee claims. I have made best rate guarantee claims with all the major hotel chains and I have had approved claims with all of them, except Hilton HHonors. The issue is not that Hilton denied my claims, I simply have not stayed much at Hilton brands.…
