Online Travel Booking and Bidding Agencies - Best place to look for cheap fares?

I usually go on kayak.com. Are there any other sites that offer cheaper fares?

What are you looking for, airfares? Hotels? Rental cars? Where are you traveling from and to?

i'm looking for cheap flights

Okay...

I don't know if it answers your query but I would like to mention one thing that there is no one particular site to get low fare .I am saying this on basis of 3 years of experience.Reason being ,I believe different airlines have tie up with different sites.

Now I prefer kayak then I do look at booking buddy for the reason that it gives a list for 7 -8 places where you can search,so I search them one by one and see from all these that where the price is cheapest.

On a side note if somebody is student they should look at studentuniverse also.I was shocked to see 300-350$ difference recently.

Remember that "cheap" is often just that - cheap. But definitely not inexpensive.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/online-travel-booking-bidding-agencies/989494-bookinhotels-com-worst-ever.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/online-travel-booking-bidding-agencies/989197-travelation-website-experience-using.html

If you are looking for "cheapest" you may find very unpleasant surprises ("If it is too good to be true....")

In my own defense, "bookin" was offering an immediate guarantee of a particular National Park lodging (instead of me having to give my 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choices to the official NP site, plus cc, which made me nervous about being stuck somewhere I didn't want to be). NEVER again; I did my research after the fact, and found only one person happy with BOOKIN.HOTELS.COM, and they were probably a plant!!

i prefer fly.com
it will search many different sites for you.

i'm looking for cheap flights

You still haven't told us what your travel routes are.

It is always worthwhile checking the airline sites also. Sometimes they surprise you with the best deals.

And learn to use ITA software. Can't book there, but it often shows things worth running down.

Romelle

Okay, I'll add my own question since the OP is being vague and I have SPECIFIC questions about best booking options on a route, and why start a whole new thread on the same topic.

I have to buy a R/T ticket from San Diego - FLL or MIA and it's for the first half of November. This is a biz travel deal where I'm paying someone else's fare, so I'm looking for cheap but I don't want to put them through a ringer of more than one flight change - e.g., Dallas or Atlanta, being typical - so they don't hate me forever. :p Best search sites for this route? The person who's flying insists on flying out of San Diego and refuses to fly out of Long Beach or LAX, which might have saved me a bit right there..

I also use www.kayak.com too but I did find that even though it gives a comprehensive search, it didn't offer the lowest fares.

The lowest farefinder I have found to date is on tripadviser.com.
It had the same fares as kayak however it found lower ones also because for a roundtrip ticket, it searched fares between multiple carriers.

For instance, I found a trip to LA originating with one carrier and coming back to Nashville on a different carrier.

I do agree with the poster that said check the airline websites too. Sometimes they run promotions.
I highly recommend both kayak and tripadvisor sites though.

Stumbled upon some posts like this:

Okay...

On a side note if somebody is student they should look at studentuniverse also.I was shocked to see 300-350$ difference recently.

Be aware that a ticket from StudentUniverse does accrue a max of 250 miles per leg only.

Found this out when the miles for my last NW/DL TATL flights - purchased first time on StudentUniverse.com hastily - didn't post (luckily I'm already GE, but the extra 10K+ miles would have been nice !)

more info here: http://www.studentuniverse.com/faqs.html

In which country you want to go? If you mention the country that will helps to give the cheap flight cost.

but could someone suggest one or more sites for best deals on Business class fares? Specifically transatlantic, ex MAD or LHR. Thanks! :)

hello

I'm looking to fly from toronto to taipei this fall.
Everywhere I look, the prices are withing $100-200 of each other.

Does anyone know how to find ediscount codes?
I've only been able to find discount codes by air canada.

Often the cheapest prices to taiwan are by northwest or sometimes united.
But, I haven't been able to find any codes for them.

Stumbled upon some posts like this:

Be aware that a ticket from StudentUniverse does accrue a max of 250 miles per leg only.

I use Student Universe extensively, and while your warning is well-taken your post is misleading. Many airlines offer full mileage on a student universe ticket. In my experience they're rarely cheaper than the market prices, except when the market prices are terribly inflated despite empty planes. This has happened several times recently on the DTW-LGA route, and sure enough American had all their flights on student universe for sale at half the market price. ^