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#223924 - 04/13/05 11:22 AM Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sites?
Pete www.workwithpete.com Registered: 06/17/03 Posts: 5996 Loc: United States	Hey all- <br><br>I'm looking to book a trip with the wife soon, but I've never had any need for sites like Expedia or Travelocity because we always had friends recommend hotels to us, etc. Now we're going a bit off on our own, and I wanted to know if anyone had any experience booking their flights/hotel arrangements through the web... <br><br>Apart from the off-kilter departure times, any nightmare stories about seedy hotels or no-name airlines? <br><br>[color:red]5.19.05 - The 'Jedi Slaughter' tour begins!</font color=red> _________________________ Work With ____!
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#223925 - 04/13/05 11:30 AM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: Pete]
RubenC Artimus Maximus Registered: 09/04/02 Posts: 2998 Loc: Beautiful Southern California	I booked my niece on Expedia a short while back and all went well. So I recently booked a trip for my wife and I on Expedia to go to New Orleans. Seemed effortless and got the hotel and airline we wanted at a good price.<br><br> _________________________
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#223926 - 04/13/05 11:41 AM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: RubenC]
Pete www.workwithpete.com Registered: 06/17/03 Posts: 5996 Loc: United States	How were the hotels? Nice? Do they give you options to choose during the booking process?<br><br><br><br>[color:red]5.19.05 - The 'Jedi Slaughter' tour begins!</font color=red> _________________________ Work With ____!
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#223927 - 04/13/05 11:47 AM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: Pete]
RubenC Artimus Maximus Registered: 09/04/02 Posts: 2998 Loc: Beautiful Southern California	I won't know until June, but the hotel I booked was highly regarded by several people I know who frequent New Orleans. You have the option to select from price to star rating, and reviews are given by previous Expedia customers.<br><br>Options were sufficient, room size, bed size, smoking or none, room view, and occupancy.<br><br> _________________________
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#223928 - 04/13/05 12:29 PM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: Pete]
Biggerfoot I invented modding! Registered: 10/10/02 Posts: 3967	I have used Orbitz with luck for hotel/rental cars before and without problems. I did find some of the rates I received were the ones I would receive with my AAA discount.<br><br>
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#223929 - 04/13/05 12:46 PM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: Pete]
trey Custom Title (50 characters max) Registered: 01/02/03 Posts: 5104 Loc: The Wizard's Balcony	I had a good experience with Travelocity recently, but I only used it to book the flights I took.<br><br>
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#223930 - 04/13/05 12:58 PM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sites? [Re: Pete]
Krasni old hand Registered: 04/19/02 Posts: 780 Loc: Milan (Italy) - Madrid (Spain)	I use Amadeus, Expedia, Travelonline and others for booking flights. Try also the websites of the flight companies.<br>For hotels, depending on where are you going maybe it's better to ask us or your friends.<br><br><br>
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#223931 - 04/13/05 12:58 PM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: RubenC]
trey Custom Title (50 characters max) Registered: 01/02/03 Posts: 5104 Loc: The Wizard's Balcony	Hey Ruben, I live quite close to New Orleans. If you want (and if you have time), we could get together for a meal or something. Have sort of a "down south" MM face to face.<br><br>Let me know, it'd be a blast.<br><br>
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#223932 - 04/13/05 01:20 PM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: trey]
RubenC Artimus Maximus Registered: 09/04/02 Posts: 2998 Loc: Beautiful Southern California	Sounds like a plan!!<br>My wife and I are going the third weekend in June for our anniversary and we plan to do plenty of eating and enjoy some good jazz too!!<br><br>I'll PM you with the details when we get closer to the date.<br><br> _________________________
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#223933 - 04/13/05 01:28 PM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: Pete]
OSXaddict Carpal Tunnel Registered: 05/22/01 Posts: 12402	I have used cheaptickets.com for airline tickets and have 0 problems. As far as hotels go, I guess try hotel.com<br><br> _________________________ <br><br>my photos
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#223934 - 04/13/05 04:15 PM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: Pete]
lesh something special Registered: 08/29/02 Posts: 2176 Loc: in situ	I've used Expedia and Travelocity once each, and Orbitz on several occasions, all with no problems. I have not booked any combo hotel/airfare kinds of deals through them, so I can't advise you there. Some of the sites have areas for comments from other travellers, it's worth a read and a little further Googling if a particular hotel sounds interesting. <br><br>Kind of hard to tell you what hotels to avoid if we don't know where you are going...<br><br><br>
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#223935 - 04/13/05 06:09 PM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: Biggerfoot]
Michael Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/08/03 Posts: 7224 Loc: Foxwoods	Orbitz you say?<br><br> _________________________
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#223936 - 04/13/05 06:12 PM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: Pete]
Bryan Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/04 Posts: 8099	I used Travelocity for a trip to Cali. It was flawless. <br><br>
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#223937 - 04/13/05 07:27 PM Re: Any experiences w/these 'all-in-1' travel sit [Re: RubenC]
trey Custom Title (50 characters max) Registered: 01/02/03 Posts: 5104 Loc: The Wizard's Balcony	Sweet! I'll keep an eye out for the PM.<br><br>We'll get you plenty of good food and music.<br><br>
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