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Planning
a vacation or trip is undoubtedly stressful. You're assaulted with apparently unlimited alternatives for flights, lodging, and things to do, and it can be difficult
to figure out where to start. Many travel strive to give you
with the best deals, but they all end up looking very similar to each other.
These
similarities make it easy to know what to do and expect when you first visit a
site. Typically, you enter your destinations, dates, and number of
travelers. After you click search, you can further filter based on price range,
airlines, and departure times for flights, amenities, hotel stars, and location
for hotels and type of car and rental car company for cars.
Where
should you book your next destination ? 😎
There are hundreds of
travel websites nowadays that help travelers find great deals to make things a
little bit more affordable. Next to the plane fare, the biggest consideration
is always where to stay. When you’re planning week-long or even month-long
travels, the bill racks up pretty quickly. The question is, where can you find
the better “best deal”?
SO WHAT MAKES ONE SITE
BETTER THAN ANOTHER ?
It
all depends on your priorities and preferences. Everyone travels and plans for
that travel differently. Here are travel sites and the factors you should
consider when choosing a site.
Agoda,
on the other hand, uses a mix of both Agency and Merchant Model. If
you’ll notice, there are a few options where you can actually choose to pay the
hotel directly. But with their Merchant Model, Agoda purchases inventory (or
rooms) from their partner hotels at a discount, and then sells them to
customers at a higher markup.
Of course, Agoda has already formed deals and negotiations with their partner hotels which is why they can still offer customers good deals on rooms and packages.
Of course, Agoda has already formed deals and negotiations with their partner hotels which is why they can still offer customers good deals on rooms and packages.
Booking.com uses the Agency Model. This means
they simply drive customers to their partner hotels and you pay the hotel when
you check out. So when you book a room on Booking.com, you’re essentially
letting the site reserve the room for you. This is the reason why you don’t
need a credit card when booking with Booking.com, which is convenient for many
travelers. Booking.com is a huge bank of information, offering
more than 1 million properties in 117,000 destinations in 225 countries and
territories. Wherever you'd like to go, you'll find it through this site. It
offers booking for flights, hotels, vacation rentals, and rental
cars.
TripAdvisor offers booking for flights, hotels,
vacation rentals, restaurants, and things to do. It's well-known for its
user-generated reviews, so as you're booking, you get the added benefit of
reading reviews all in the same place. While I'm partial to Yelp for food
recommendations and believe it to be better for US destinations, TripAdvisor is
much more widely used in the international community. TripAdvisor is
the most experience-driven travel site. You are not just booking somewhere to
live — you're signing up to experience and explore a destination.
Expedia offers booking for flights, hotels, vacation rentals, rental
cars, cruises, and things to do. You can bundle flight, hotel, and car
deals so you don't have to go through the headache of looking separately and
trying to coordinate all the deals. The "My Trips" section is
helpful for managing your entire itinerary in one place, so you don't have to search
through endless emails and accounts to figure out your vacation plan. If
you sign up as a member, you can earn Expedia+ points to use toward future
trips. Use the mobile app to earn 2x Expedia+ points. Like Booking.com,
Expedia also offers suggestions for date shifts, date extensions, and route
changes to get you to the cheapest deal.
by : Nurul Najihah Binti Abu Bakar 🌸
by : Nurul Najihah Binti Abu Bakar 🌸
