Online travel agencies like the ten in this list operate between you and the number of travel services – ranging from airlines, car rentals, hotels, vacations, cruises, and more – to give you the best deals on your searches. Searching for a cheaper deal online is challenging when you are starting out, but if you factor in what kind of traveller you are and match those with the main offers and perks a particular travel website has, travel planning becomes just what you make it out to be: efficient, easy, and simple.
The advent of numerous travel sites influenced the way travel websites do their business. To keep their customers we see some of the online travel agencies in this list introduce new methods to travel and stay loyal to their particular service. Let’s read up about ten top travel websites and what they have to offer:
- FlightHub 9.4/10
One of the biggest draws from Canada’s travel scene, FlightHub is the flagship brand of venture capital firm Momentum Ventures, continuing in the latter’s perfect record of successful business launches. What sets FlightHub apart aside from their customer service’s 24 hour availability is their instant e-ticket delivery, a far cry from other online travel agencies’ long waiting for email confirmation. This online travel agency is also reputed for their budget-friendly flight deals and prices which they constantly update and negotiate for with major airlines.
- Booking.com 9.3/10
On this travel website, one can browse and search from 1,154,409 properties worldwide including 590,478 holiday rentals in 106,683 destinations in 225 countries and territories. Booking.com is a part of The Priceline Group. 24/7 customer support – from making travel alterations anytime to managing your booking – completes Booking.com’s service.
One can book all kinds of accommodation, restaurants, and car rental services and browse through the types of properties or themes and categories of their travel services.
- Priceline 9.2/10
Like most other online travel agencies, Priceline gives the following travel services and needs: hotels, cars, flights, vacation packages, and cruises. For deeper discounts of as much as 60% on hotels and more, search through their Express Deals; for even more discounts, you can name your price or bid on hotels or rental cars. Priceline guarantees the best prices for these services and easy accessibility to the best places and vacation experiences.
- JustFly 9.2/10
JustFly searches ticket prices from more than 440 airlines so you won’t have to, and offers hotels and car services. This agency’s efforts yield competitive prices in a user-friendly environment.
What’s great about this website is they show the best deals to destinations from your place of origin and simplified their site for seamless searching and booking. Innovation and keeping on top of technology ensure their advancement and leadership.
- Hotwire 9.1/10
Hotwire is for booking hotels, cars, flights, and vacations. It also has a mobile app for more convenient booking and deals, but on their site one can explore destinations and other travel options. The Hotwire team is composed of travel enthusiasts who are responsible for negotiating the best deals, making the travel agency one of the first to offer deep discounts through their specially negotiated Hot Rate deals.
- TripAdvisor 9/10
On our list is travel media powerhouse TripAdvisor, headquartered in Massachusetts, United States of America, with a website that provides travel-related reviews, open forums, and other information from different websites to offer you the best prices on hotels. With more than 60 million members worldwide posting more than 250 million reviews and opinions on hotels, restaurants, attractions, and other travel-related businesses, TripAdvisor has a claim to be the world’s biggest travel website.
- Trivago 8.7/10
Trivago, founded and headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, helps travellers find the ideal hotel at the best price. In what can be called efficiently German, the site had been streamlined since we last wrote about them and now features a large white expanse serving as backdrop so you can concentrate on your hotel search on the central search engine. Trivago was Germany’s first hotel search engine, founded by a group of college friends in 2005 and they are now majority owned by Expedia, though their services now span multitudes of countries worldwide.
- Expedia 8.6/10
This travel website is owned and operated by American travel company Expedia, Inc. which was founded in October 1996 as a division of Microsoft then spun off in 1999. Through the years, this travel company acquired others. They explain their company name comes from a combination of the words “exploration” and “speed,” containing the high-point Scrabble letter “X.”
Expedia.com features last minute deals, other deals, and their own content as the site’s main sections. This site indicates they have more than 321,000 hotels worldwide and increased savings if you book flight+hotel packages.
- Kayak 8.4/10
On Kayak, one can search for travel needs through hundreds of websites at a time, including packages, rentals, and cruises. Private Deals can help you save as much as 35% when you sign in. Their main offer is searching through hotels made easy by the main categories showing on the site by which they mainly feature hotel accommodations in the United States where they are headquartered. Along with options to book and search for reservations, Kayak’s mobile version offers packing list and currency converter features.
- OneTravel 8/10
OneTravel is an online travel agency that has deals from more than 450 airlines and a variety of other services such as hotels, cars, and vacations. They also display percent-off coupon codes and scrolling down their search engine reveals more advanced options for searching for these travel services. You can find cheap tickets and travel deals by destination, or cheap tickets by airline.
Using a travel agency is a phenomenon that is seen to rise in frequency and popularity as more people travel. There are more than these 10 online travel agencies, yet the ones in our list give users a spectrum of the advantages one has when choosing to travel using this service.
What can you say about our list? Do you agree with our selection, have favorites of your own, or have any online travel agencies you want to see or wish to read about? If you have anything to add, feel free to leave your comments here below!
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