NYT: TRAVEL June 17, 2009
Frugal Traveler: Travel Web Sites: A Click-On Showdown
By Matt Gross "From booking airfares to securing hotel rooms, the Frugal Traveler puts websites to the test."
Here are the sites recommended in the article: http://www.mobissimo.com/search_airfare.php http://www.vayama.com/ http://www.sidestep.com/ http://www.dohop.com/ http://www.cfares.com/ - member only, $50/yr "I'll pick my seat using SeatExpert.com, not SeatGuru.com, my old standby. As queenofcooking put it, SeatExpert lets you find the best (and worst) spots on a plane with "better accuracy and the ability to search by carrier/date/flight number, if you don't know the aircraft type." Venere.com, which focuses on hotels throughout Europe. "Also suggests you check out TripKick.com, which he called the SeatGuru for hotels. It's a pretty nifty site, outlining which rooms in a particular hotel are bigger, with better views or more spacious bathrooms " AitaiJapan.com, for example — a site that connects visitors to Japan with locals who want to show them around "WheresCool.com, suggested by SS, is a site for travelers "who are young, broke and looking for recommendations they will actually use " AtlasObscura.com, which I discovered recently on BoingBoing.net. As a co-founder, Joshua Foer, put it, the site is a catalog of all the "wondrous, curious, and esoteric places" that don't make it into your average guidebook. Like the world's biggest manmade hole in eastern Siberia. Or the Sonorous Stones of Ringing Rocks Park, in Pennsylvania. Or the Pigeon Towers of Isfahan. Or Carhenge in Nebraska..." Also, from Consumer reports, 2 sites: www.airfarewatchdog.com http://www.hotwire.com/hotelratereport.jsp | 
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