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Kayak is a "meta-search
engine," a website that allows
you to search
100+ other travel websites,
including airline,
airfare, hotel and car
rental websites,
for fares and prices all at once.
Kayak is not a travel agency, just
a web search service.
If you select a service, fare or price,
Kayak redirects you
to the website where you can reserve
the flight, hotel room or car rental.
It seems to work
great! I find its
layout and presentation easy to use,
and its results surprisingly accurate
and helpful.
I'd suggest that you give
it a try,
whatever else you may do. For airfares,
it's particularly good to get a glimpse
of what current airfares are between
certain cities, and which airlines
fly that route.
You can also request periodic updates
on fares. They'll email you this cool
chart that shows exactly
which days are the cheapest to fly:
This chart shows fares found by Kayak
users in early March for
flights from
Boston
MA to Istanbul in April.
It tells me that the absolute
best fare is
available on April 19th, so if I can
change my plans to depart on that
date, I'll save money. (Interesting:
April 19th is a holiday—Patriots'
Day—in Massachusetts.
Perhaps people don't want to miss the
parades and speeches.)
You may not need any other way than
Kayak to find the best airfares, hotel
rates and car rental prices.
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