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Planning a vacation or trip is undoubtedly stressful. You're bombarded with seemingly endless options for flights, lodging, and things to do, and it can be difficult to figure out where to start. Many travel aggregators strive to present you with the best deals, but they all end up looking very similar to each other.

These similarities make it easy to know what to do and expect when you first visit a site. Typically, you enter your destinations, dates, and number of travelers. After you click search, you can further filter based on price range, airlines, and departure times for flights; amenities, hotel stars, and location for hotels; and type of car and rental car company for cars. 

So what makes one site better than another?

It all depends on your priorities and preferences. Everyone travels and plans for that travel differently. Here are seven travel sites and the factors you should consider when choosing a site. 

Booking.com

Booking.com is a huge bank of information, offering more than 1 million properties in 117,000 destinations in 225 countries and territories. Wherever you'd like to go, you'll find it through this site. It offers booking for flights,  hotels, vacation rentals, and rental cars.  Clicking  restaurants will take you to OpenTable. 

Highlights:

I found their desktop homepage to be cluttered and a lot to look at compared to the homepages of other sites, but their app experience was noticeably simpler, which makes sense as travelers increasingly turn mobile. 

One feature on the homepage that stood out to me (shown above) was the "Are you traveling for work?" option. Clicking "Yes" will present popular business travel options like WiFi and breakfast.

Another feature was its flexible date suggestions if your chosen destination is a popular choice and accommodations are more than 50% reserved during your selected dates.

Best for: 

• Wide variety of options, including hostels, homestays, and bed and breakfasts
• Easy access to your plans and searches by syncing your account across your devices 
• Getting the best deals with their Price Match offer 
• Destination travel guides and articles 

Lacking or not the best for:

• Bundling hotel, flight, and car packages

Book a trip with Booking.com

Expedia offers booking for  flights, hotels, vacation rentals, rental cars, cruises, and things to do. 

You can bundle flight, hotel, and car deals so you don't have to go through the headache of looking separately and trying to coordinate all the deals. 

The "My Trips" section is helpful for managing your entire itinerary in one place, so you don't have to search through endless emails and accounts to figure out your vacation plan. 

If you sign up as a member, you can earn Expedia+ points to use toward future trips. Use the mobile app to earn 2x Expedia+ points. 

Like Booking.com, Expedia also offers suggestions for date shifts, date extensions, and route changes to get you to the cheapest deal. 

• Hotel, flight, and car bundles 
• Coordinating your whole vacation itinerary 
• Reward points system
• Single bookings. The site is best utilized for its bundle packaging.

Book a trip with Expedia

Tripadvisor.

TripAdvisor offers booking for flights,  hotels, vacation rentals, restaurants, and things to do.

It's well-known for its user-generated reviews, so as you're booking, you get the added benefit of reading reviews all in the same place. While I'm partial to Yelp for food recommendations and believe it to be better for US destinations, TripAdvisor is much more widely used in the international community. 

TripAdvisor is the most experience-driven travel site. You are not just booking somewhere to live — you're signing up to experience and explore a destination. 

• Detailed filtering (e.g. style for hotels and distinctive features for vacation rentals) 
• Comparing deals across aggregators 
• Strong user-generated review community 
• Bundling hotel, flight, and car packages 

Book a trip with TripAdvisor  

CheapOair offers booking for  flights, hotels, and rental cars.  Clicking on its cruises  tab takes you to another site, Cheap Cruises.  

The "Travel by Interest" section offers special deals for senior , military , student , and last minute travel . The military and student discounts emphasize keeping costs low, while the senior discount focuses on senior friendly destinations at an affordable price. 

Whether you're coordinating a reunion, wedding, or corporate event, a Group Travel Request is a good option. You can work with an agent on your travel needs. 

• Specific travelers like senior citizens, military, students, and large groups
• Higher than usual service fees (e.g. $32 per night per room for hotel bookings)

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Hotwire offers booking for  flights, hotels, and rental cars.

Hotwire gives you all the filters and options you need but maintains the balance of not giving you too much. It keeps its sections simple, so you don't need to worry about something you may be missing out on. 

Thanks to partnerships with other travel sites like Hotels.com and Expedia, Hotwire can offer extremely low prices. There is also a free 24-hour cancellation policy on most flights. 

• Focused searchers who do not want to be distracted or overwhelmed by too many options, things to do, and city guides. Destination guides and inspiration can be found on a separate blog page. 
• Travelers on a budget
• Travelers with very specific preferences like hotel brand or car brand

Book a trip with Hotwire

Travelocity.

Travelocity offers booking for  flights, hotels, vacation rentals, rental cars, cruises and things to do.  And no, you're not seeing double. Expedia owns Travelocity, which may explain why the two homepages look almost exactly the same. 

From what we can tell, the most noticeable difference is Travelocity's Roaming Gnome, which represents the inspiration and wanderlust of traveling. The "Inspiration" section contains interesting articles like "Best Foodie Finds in Airports Around the World" and themes like "Luxury" or "Romantic." Expedia's travel blog, on the other hand, is relegated to an easy-to-miss link near the bottom of the page. 

• All the benefits of Expedia but with a more exploratory inspiration angle 
•  Single bookings. The site is best utilized for its bundle packaging.

Book a trip with Travelocity

Priceline offers booking for  flights, hotels, rental cars, and cruises.  

The " Express Deals " option rewards flexible travelers with up to 60% savings on hotels. The site will give you the location and star rating, but not the name of the hotel. You can still choose the bed type for many of the options. 

Another way to save is the Name Your Own Price feature where you input the location, star rating, and price bid for a hotel. 

For car rentals, you can also Name Your Own Price and bid for a car. If you don't have big preferences on the car brand, you'll be able to find a car for a price less than the search listings give you. For example, I was able to get an economy car with unlimited mileage for $30 a day, while the general search yielded cars that were all at least $37 a day. 

The cruise section is clear and easy to navigate. The search option is similar to searching for flights, with more dropdown selections than other sites. This feature is ideal for travelers who know exactly what they want for their cruise experience, and are not merely shopping around. 

• Travelers with low hotel and car brand loyalty who want to find a great deal
• Having a more focused cruise search process 
• Travel inspiration or destination guides
• Low risk takers who like to know exactly what they're getting

Book a trip with Priceline

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Latest update 12.9.0 has a display bug that must be fixed

Hi team, Thanks for your work to continuously improving the App. But I would like to bring to your attention that there is a display bug that happens after installing the latest update version 12.9.0. When I click “See all rooms” of any particular hotel, the display of different room options with various booking conditions would often be very weird as if the texts are all “vibrating”. This typically happens with the first room option and when I scroll down the room list, the “vibration” would stop. But it will come back again if I scroll back again to the first room option. This is a very obvious and annoying display bug and does not fit with Agoda, being a travel booking App that should strive to create smooth and frictionless customer experience. Please kindly look into this and fix it as soon as possible. My iOS version is 17.0.3 if this helps to diagnose the issue. I believe Agoda should work with all recent versions of iOS when you do App update testing so please focus on fixing the issue itself with the App and please do not ask customers to update their iOS to the latest version. Thanks and look forward to your new release the soonest.

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Thank you for the review. We always strive to provide a stable application for the ease of our users. Please email us at [email protected] and advise us your concern, together with the booking ID, guest name, email address, phone number *if applicable and include the case number #719049 in the subject. We'll look into it and assist you to the best that we can.

How much do you pay to get fake reviews?

Simply amazing that such a travel agency service still exist without any contact system such as contact email or anything for customers to contact to except for a generic robot chat service that works just like Siri. I can’t remember how but I managed to contact them through email once and they replied (only once after a week of wait) that my contact info has been updated but it still hasn’t been changed since. There are more issues I’ve requested but none were resolved because no one responded to anything. I think I should celebrate my 1 year of waiting for their customer service support and throw them a big party along with it. Take for instance, changing a phone number is just a Simple thing to do but I forgive them probably because the company couldn’t afford to buy another keyboard for their staff hence Nobody’s doing anything. The only thing attractive about Agoda is some “price discounts” for hotel even though sometimes it’s just a hit and a miss a merely some gimmicks. By the way how much do you pay to get fake reviews? I want it too, to boost my morale support after getting bad service.

Nothing but gimmicks to mislead consumers

If only I could give 0 star. Booked a hotel with Agoda for Japan trip and used their ‘Pay Later’ option. The outcome is as good as a scam! The rates they used are not transparent. I would have thought how bad could it be since Japanese Yen is getting weaker. The rates during payment date was in face better than when I booked. I thought it should not defer too much even they charge admin fee. But no, the loss is close to USD 100 for 4 nights. The rates in the market has been hovering around Y140 for every dollar but I was charged Y128 for every dollar. It’s close to 10% difference! When I asked, they told me it was the rate on the day it was charged. But there wasn’t any day that fx dropped by 10% for months! They refused when I request for them to honor lowest price guarantee terms. Use them at your risk, both delay payment and lowest price guarantee are nothing but marketing gimmicks which do not benefits consumers but themselves. From other reviews it is apparent part of their earnings are from charging customers in such unscrupulous manner.

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