Dream Map - any alternatives to Travelocity?
Dec 4, 2009, 8:32 am
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Dream Map - any alternatives to Travelocity?
My adult children want to go somewhere warm over the holidays and don't care where. The sticky sent me to Travelocity for its dream map at http://travel.travelocity.com/releva...owLowFares.do#. Are there other similar or better sites for this?
Dec 4, 2009, 8:48 am
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Dec 4, 2009, 1:45 pm
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Dec 5, 2009, 5:41 am
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The Travelocity one is actually fairly comprehensive for domestic destinations if your dates are wildly flexible (i.e. you don't care if you go next week or next August--that's usually the case with me).
The Farecompare link provided by bcmatt is helpful (as any of these tools is), but it limits you to searching month by month (useful in your situation, though, I suppose).
Kayak Buzz is useful, but their fare database is only updated by actual search results by other Kayak users. In other words, there may be a smokin' deal from SDF to OGG for $250 on Dec 23 and returning Dec 28, but if no other Kayak user has bothered to search for SDF-OGG on those dates, then Kayak won't know about the fare and won't show you the deal on their Buzz maps or fare lists.
Farecompare's Flyertalk fare search is a useful tool for finding good deals worldwide, but it sometimes misses some domestic routes.
Check http://www.airfarewatchdog.com for good lists of manually-reviewed deals.
A combination of all of these (and others) is really necessary to find the true best deal, but for your particular case (you're specifically wanting travel over the holidays and not just any time in the next year), you'll probably find the Farecompare link that bcmatt posted the most useful.
The Farecompare link provided by bcmatt is helpful (as any of these tools is), but it limits you to searching month by month (useful in your situation, though, I suppose).
Kayak Buzz is useful, but their fare database is only updated by actual search results by other Kayak users. In other words, there may be a smokin' deal from SDF to OGG for $250 on Dec 23 and returning Dec 28, but if no other Kayak user has bothered to search for SDF-OGG on those dates, then Kayak won't know about the fare and won't show you the deal on their Buzz maps or fare lists.
Farecompare's Flyertalk fare search is a useful tool for finding good deals worldwide, but it sometimes misses some domestic routes.
Check http://www.airfarewatchdog.com for good lists of manually-reviewed deals.
A combination of all of these (and others) is really necessary to find the true best deal, but for your particular case (you're specifically wanting travel over the holidays and not just any time in the next year), you'll probably find the Farecompare link that bcmatt posted the most useful.
