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In my post today on intra-Europe United Awards at 8,000 miles for nonstop flights at 800 or less miles, I asked if anyone knew a source for a list of nonstop flights from airports. A quick answer from the UK pointed to Kayak.com links for any airport for any month with nonstop flights organized by…
Kayak.com offered me a Private Deal when I searched hotel rooms in Orlando. Here is a look at three chain brand hotels with a lower rate shown on Kayak.com in Private Deals than the rate listed on the hotel’s own website. Since these are considered member-only rates for Kayak.com users, these rates do not qualify…
by Ric Garrido
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…
Best Rate Guarantee claims are one of my main strategies for hotel rate discounts. Over the course of a calendar year, Best Rate Guarantee claims save me several thousand dollars on the published rates for chain hotels while still allowing me to earn promotion bonuses and elite stay credit. Today I experienced a successful Choice…
Priceline will buy meta-search engine Kayak.com for $1.8 billion. Readers of Loyalty Traveler may know I am a frequent user of kayak.com. Both sites rank in the Top 10 travel sites in the USA. Priceline makes most of its money from hotel bookings. Kayak makes 80% of its revenue from flight search referrals according to…
I need to plan eight stays over the next two months to reach SPG Platinum for 2012. I outlined why I want to requalify for SPG Platinum in my earlier post, Differences in my stays as SPG Platinum and Gold elite. This post shares how I plan out hotel hopping for stays when I want…
I scored a free hotel night yesterday applying Choice Hotels Best Rate Guarantee. In fact, I found potential Best Rate Guarantee claims with Choice Hotels, Best Western and Marriott yesterday as I planned a Sierra Mountains road trip through California for this coming week. This post covers the Choice Hotels Best Rate Guarantee details followed…
We have all done hotel rate searches and you may already have a strategy that works well for you. I just completed a hotel rate search for family members planning to stay 7 nights next month in Washington, D.C. Here is a case study of how I approached the task of finding a hotel…
There is value in a website like DealBase.com for finding hotel bargains. Here is another metasearch engine to find price discrepancies between the hotel website and the online travel agency hotel rates. The difference with DealBase.com from just another Kayak.com is the ability to look for hotel bargains by category or tag. For example a…
Kayak.com, the travel meta-search engine that scans the web for hotel prices (and airfares) from different online travel agencies, purchased TravelPost.com in 2007. Recent news indicates Kayak.com will try to establish rivalry to TripAdvisor.com’s globally dominant hotel review database with a revamped TravelPost.com site. Kayak.com has put money into a relaunch of TravelPost.com. My initial…
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