The Top 5 Travel Websites You’ve Never Heard of But Should be Using
1. Hipmunk has an interesting twist. Like most other search engines, you can sort potential flights by price, time, duration, and number of stops. Or you can sort flights by a combination of those factors–which you do by clicking the “agony” button. After all, you want to minimize the agony on your trip, and to do that, you need all the information at your fingertips.
2. Tingo is a new option for hotel bookings. The site monitors prices up to 24 hours before check in. If it drops, it automatically rebooks at the lower rate and refunds your credit card. If you find a cheaper rate on your own, just cancel your Tingo reservation.
3. TripIt allows you to keep all of your travel itineraries in one place on your phone. Keep up with multiple airline, hotel, car reservations and more. Just forward your confirmation emails to the app and your reservations will be combined into one itinerary. The app provides an easy way to share your itinerary with colleagues and family. It even syncs with your iPhone or iPad calendar to help keep you on schedule. An added bonus: it’s a great way to be green by going paperless.
4. Room77 lets you preview rooms in select hotels in 32 cities including the view from the room. It uses a highly complex combination of hotel maps, and blue prints, and other records into this searchable database. Type the name of the hotel in the search box and filter your preferences—like if you want a high or a low floor, or if you want a connecting room— and it will spit back some options and once you click on the room you can see the simulations of what the view out of your window will look like.
5. Flightboard is an that app turns your iphone or iPad into the Arrivals and Departures board for any airport in the world. Covering over 4,000 airports and 1,400 airlines, you can view all the flight information in real-time. The app has an old-school design inspired by the board at Charles de Gaulle Airport. You can when you travel to plan ahead and find the next gate with connecting flights.
What website do you use to book travel? Share your unsung favorites in the comments.
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