Put Your Discount Airfare Travel Plans on Autopilot
December 25, 2005: What am I doing on Christmas night sitting at
my computer? Well if I had a life I might be doing something
else, but I really have fun tracking down the most exciting
travel ideas at discount prices. (Yeah, I really am that
boring). So anyway, most of us have run into the problem of
working out the very best discount travel arrangements for a
trip on or around a specific date. Now several sites will send
you email alerts if airfares drop down into you price range.
Check out three sites that can help you find this information in
this great article by Dennis Tanner in MLive.com:
--FareWatchers (www.farewatchers.com) offers two types of
e-mail alerts: one when Travelocity's lowest fare between two
targeted cities changes up or down by more than $25 and the
other when the fare falls below a threshold set by the
subscriber.
--The Orbitz Web site, www.orbitz.com, offers Deal Detector,
which keeps searching for a price you set for particular cities
and dates. A nice feature is being able to have the service
check on other airports in an area and enter a span of dates for
your travel rather than being limited to specific days.
--Another option is Austin, Texas-based TripStalker that checks
out air fares, rental cars and hotel space for specific dates.
One drawback might be that you must download TripStalker
software to use the service. The service, available at
www.tripstalker.com, will notify you through e-mail or by a text
message to your cell phone.
I keep asking myself how we made it before the internet. But
with Farewatchers, Deal Detector and TripStalker, you have even
more tools in your discount travel toolbox.
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