Turnkey Travel Websites are a perfect solution to those who are just starting out with an online business. Others collect money from service providers like airlines, hotels and rental agencies. Their newly added Travel Deals provides the best bargains in the coming week from a variety of travel sites, saving you the hassle of online booking research. We also liked Kayak’s hotel search, which includes a map displaying not only where hotels are located within a city, but which neighborhoods are best for dining out, shopping, and sightseeing.

Hotwire often offers the best published deals on cars by collecting rates from its eight rental car company partners, including Alamo, Enterprise and Hertz. So you might be surprised to learn that since more than 95 percent of the online travel marketplace is controlled by just two companies (Expedia and Priceline), many of our travel sites found the exact same flights and cars for the exact same price.

Apart from ( ) for hotels (over 1.7 million listed) and just about anything else, the biggest among 2018 contenders – this from China – is CTrip ( ). This site serves up hotels, airlines and trains and has a mobile phone interface as well. We also judged each site by the number of airlines it displayed in a basic flight search.

Baker noted that one way McAvoy avoided the scam was by stopping in his tracks when he was asked to send personal data, such as a picture of his passport, for the hotel booking. Pro: Whether you’re booking rooms for a sports team, a reunion, a wedding or any other type of group travel, HotelPlanner can save more than 70 percent on group reservations.

The fact that the site focuses only on hotels and accommodation makes search less taxing. As far as price goes, you aren’t necessarily getting a deal booking through Expedia, but you aren’t paying any more than you might on the airline’s website. There are tons of travel sites in the internet and searching Google would probably yield you thousands and even millions of sites.