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[heat123]

I am doing some travel searches for our annual trip to Vegas this year and have looked into:

Hotwire, Priceline, Orbitz, Cheaptix,Travelocity and finally Expedia. Anyone have any other sites they use and recommend for the cheapest packages?

So far Expedia is the cheapest one!

TIA!

 

[ChefLisa]

When we went to Vegas in the past, we decided the packages were not the way to go for us. We usually found the best airfare prices directly with the airlines and the best hotel rates directly with the hotels.

What month are you traveling? Are you on the hotels' email list? They usually send the best deals.

Lisa

 

[heat123]

I did some searches with the airline that was the cheapest on the travel sites and actually the travel site was cheaper than the airline company by $5 or something? I have bought tix directly from the airline before and saved a few bucks but this time, not soo much.

I will try booking rates directly with the hotel and see if there is a difference?
vs. the travel sites. thanks!

 

[Jean DeVries]

Make sure with expedia you read the fine print. It's either that one or Travelocity that charges like a $35 ticketing fee (or at least they did a few years ago).

The advantage is that those sites are like travel agents, so when you book your ticket, say for your mom, in the wrong last name (she's only had the same one for 40 years), they'll let you cancel your ticket and reticket yourself (at the current price, however...but at least you get your money back from the wrong ticket....)

 

[dannyzmom]

I use kayak.com a lot

 

[Tara1021]

i've been looking a lot at those sites and directly at the airlines and have found that the airlines are cheaper than travelocity, expedia etc. DH and I are hoping to go to Paris in March and I'm searching for the best deals. Today continental had airfare for 602 and the exact same flight on travelocity was 710.

As far as Vegas goes, everytime i've gone, i've gone through southwest airlines vacations. It is the best deal on the web. hotel and airfare. you can choose your hotel, based upon the cost w/airfare included. usually, from houston, we go for between 300-400 dollars, staying at a strip hotel. It's great!!!

 

[Tara1021]

oh, and sometimes with swa, it's cheaper to stay 3 nights instead of 2, so check it both ways.

 

[heat123]

hmm, I will have to check kayak and SW! Thanks!

 

[jkinak]

Southwest doesn't fly from Anchorage so I don't know about their specials, but we are planning a trip this spring with friends and they got a great deal through vegas.com for flight and hotel. I used sidestep.com to plan our trip to Florida last year-they draw from alot of the sites you already mentioned but it's nice because they tell you where to find the best deal among those sites.

We haven't been to Vegas since 12/04 and we are SO excited abobut our trip!

 

[sarahlegare]

mobissimo.com
It checks the discount airlines, like cheaptickets, orbitz & all those, but it also checks the airlines directly....The only one I'd use now!!!