booking trips to foreign parts online

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  1. Gue

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    Can anyone recommend a site other than expedia ?

    To customise a brief trip away ? ie pick flights then accomodation. ?

    Ta etc.
     
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  2. EastStander

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    or

    book flights and then do searches for hotels - for my trip to US I booked flights thru travelocity and booked hotels direct on the hotels websites (same price but you get a better room as many give out the poorer rooms to people who book through 3rd party sites)
     
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  3. Gue

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    Weer tha gooin?

    You can send me a secret message if you like and then we can talk about it on here and it'll piss everybody off.
     
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  4. Gue

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    YH(private)M

    Great on here innit ?
     
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  5. Rev

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    My 2 pence worth

    I've yet to find a good deal on expedia, travelocity/lastminute etc. I'm not saying they're no good but it depends on your circumsances.

    If you're flexible when you can fly and don't have anything too specific in mind, they're OK but if you have specific dates prebooked off work and a specific location in mind, they're not so great. They make a fuss about being able to customise AND save but I've yet to find this - I've always been able to beat them when I've tried. However, their bundle deals are good if you can get time off at short notice (which I can't).

    Good places I've found to start for a manual search are...
    flybudget.com to find which airlines fly from your chosen UK airport to your chosen destination..
    venere or alpharooms for hotels
    then resorthoppa to arrange airport transfers (often missing from the cheap deals leaving huge taxi fares on arrival)
     
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  6. Gue

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  7. Jay

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    Top advice there

    It's also worth looking directly at some of the budget airlines:
    Jet2 Thomsonfly EasyJet BMIBaby
     
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  8. Gue

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    I've replied..............

    ......with some very probing questions and some excellent private advice.
     
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  9. Rev

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    Yeah

    Probing questions: KY, Vaseline or Dairylea?
    Excellent private advice: Dental dam - tastes minty and never splits ;)
     
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  10. Gue

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    RE: My 2 pence worth

    Top banana. Cheers Rev.(dancin)
     
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  12. Gue

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    Foreign parts. mmmmmmm can't beat em.
     
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  13. Ome

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    skyscanner.net is a good seacher for flights
     
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    Cheers for those Revvie

    Bookmarked into my favourites
     
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