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Is there any downside in using Google price guarantee when purchasing a flight ticket on Google Flights?
When purchasing a flight ticket on Google Flights, one sometimes has the option to use the Google price guarantee. Is there any downside in using Google price guarantee when purchasing a flight ...
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Are "no change fees" tickets, a handy trick to get cheaper flights? Do they have other downsides or upsides than the obvious?
On many economy tickets, you can pay usually 5%-10% or so more to get a "no change fees" ticket.
This would seem to be a big advantage, because, when you're Over There, you could change your ...
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Is it legal for an airline to show, at the same exact time, two different prices for the same exact flight?
I recently bought a ticket from a (legit) European airline, with which I had flown before, for a national flight in an EU country.
In the process of booking, as I normally do, I tried to find the ...
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Why is it sometimes cheaper to connect via an airport than to finally fly to that airport? [duplicate]
You can fly from Vienna (VIE) to Addis Ababa (ADD) for 526€.
However, flying from Vienna (VIE) to Cape Town (CPT) connecting through Addis Ababa (ADD) is only 419€.
So when flying to ADD, it is ...
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Hotel booking: Why is Agoda much cheaper than booking.com?
I noticed that Agoda.com often offers significant cheaper prices than booking.com when comparing prices (looking at the same hotel, same room type, same dates...).
I wonder why that is considering ...
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Don't use first flight, but use return flight (both flights on same ticket) -- on which airlines and under which circumstances is this possible?
I found two (Austrian) articles (in German; from a not unserious newspaper):
https://derstandard.at/1271377233456/Nach-versaeumten-Hinflug-Urteil-untersagt-Airlines-Storno-von-Rueckflug
https://...
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Track flight prices based on route, not specific dates, on Google Flights
Using the new Google Flights, is it possible to track prices for certain routes (e.g. New York to Madrid), but without specific dates in mind?
For example, my schedule is flexible enough that I can ...
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Where can I compare airfares *including baggage fees*? [duplicate]
There are lots of places where I can compare flight fare costs, where the listed prices include all taxes and fees.
This capability is eroding due to practices like route-dependent carry-on bag ...
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Can I resell my hotel booking?
Suppose that person A booked today a hotel room for 3 nights in Dubai to travel in the upcoming February with Hotel Z (room price = 50€). In January, person A changed his mind about the visit and ...
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Is there a way to get airline prices from the past?
I traveled from Frankfurt to Japan in July for an office work. However, as my employer is based in Vienna, I always need to provide some price comparison (in form of a screenshot) for comparable ...
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Is there a website that lets you shop for hotels with taxes and fees included in search results?
Every time I book a hotel online, the price increases by 25% in "taxes and fees" at checkout, compared to the price featured in search results. This does not occur when booking flights (I actually ...
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Farestore.com, TravelMerry.com: MUCH cheaper than "normal" websites. Is this real?
Typically I use hipmunk to quickly figure out what good connections and good prices are. Recently I saw that "unknown" websites like farestore or travelmerry are the lowest bidder by a huge margin.
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Do motels in US typically charge more for walk-ins as opposed to advance reservations?
I am planning a trip from Seattle to Glacier National Park. We will need to stay at a motel as the entire journey cannot be done in one day. Rather than make advance reservations at a motel, we are ...
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Is there a hotel search engine which allows one to exclude shared rooms? [duplicate]
The main big hotel search websites I know: http://www.booking.com/ http://www.hotels.com/ http://www.laterooms.com/ list many "hotels" which also sell single beds in dorm rooms. Try searching for ...
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Why has it become a formidable task to book an affordable hotel in Vancouver BC two weeks in advance? [closed]
I have been trying to find a hotel online in Vancouver BC two weeks in advance (for July 17) and web sites are showing 85% of rooms are taken, leaving only rooms in the $240-$550 per night range, most ...
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