Everyone knows about Travelocity's Dream Maps feature, which lets you see a map of cities you can fly to for a certain range of fares. However, I found it a little irritating that it keeps defaulting to North America from Dallas for $500.
I didn't see this posted before, but you can bypass this by manually typing in specific parameters separated by ampersands. That is, the url will look like
http://dps1.travelocity.com/dreamMap.ctl?option1=yourpref&option2=yourpref [...]
and can be bookmarked in your browser of choice. The parameters are any of the following:
dep_arp_name is the Departure City of your choice. It is easiest to use the
airport code here, or you can enter the
city name substituting %20 for spaces. The default is Dallas,%20TX and the more popular destinations accept many versions of names.
http://dps1.travelocity.com/dreamMap.ctl?dep_arp_name=BGM will make Binghamton, NY USA your departure city.
http://dps1.travelocity.com/dreamMap.ctl?dep_arp_name=Munich,%20Germany will make Munich, Germany your departure city. So will
http://dps1.travelocity.com/dreamMap.ctl?dep_arp_name=München,%20Deutschland
maxFare is the
dollar amount of your maximum fare, defaulting to 500. The number does not have to be in multiples of 100. For instance,
http://dps1.travelocity.com/dreamMap.ctl?dep_arp_name=POM&maxFare=2459 returns routes from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea for $2459 or less
region is the destination region of your choice and must be one of the following:
- northamerica for North America (default)
- europe for Western Europe
- easteurope for Eastern Europe
- caribbean for the Caribbean
- asia for Asia
- oceania for South Pacific
http://dps1.travelocity.com/dreamMap.ctl?dep_arp_name=EZE ®ion=oceania&maxFare=1800 will return trips to the South Pacific from Buenos Aires, Argentina for $1800 or less
search_type adjusts the "View Fares For" option.
- airports for All Cities (default)
- national for National Parks
- lastMinute for Last Minute Deals
- ski_w for Hike/Ski West US/Canada
- ski_e for Hike/Ski East US/Canada
- ski_r for Hike/Ski Rockies US
http://dps1.travelocity.com/dreamMap.ctl?dep_arp_name=MCI &search_type=ski_w&maxFare=450 returns Hike West fares from Kansas City, MO USA for $450 or less
paxCount and
child_cnt are the
number of passengers and
number of children respectively.
http://dps1.travelocity.com/dreamMap.ctl?dep_arp_name=NYC& region=europe&paxCount=3&child_cnt=2&maxFare=350 will seek rates for 3 passengers, 2 of whom are children, from any New York City airport to airports in Western Europe for under $350 per adult passenger