by shitegeist » Tue Apr 18, 2017 11:26 am
CambodianDevil wrote:I've been going directly through the airline and it's worked out to simpler and provided me with more up front options than going through a middle man service. If problems arise, it's a quick phone call to resolve also. I have heard people have had success with skyscanner and I will check it out on my next trip. For rooms, I always use agoda.
Skyscanner is useful and is always my first stop but it's an aggregator, not a retailer. They'll search around various sites to find and offer you the cheapest price, then direct you to the site you choose. Be aware that some of those sites are pretty dubious: I recently found a trip to Europe on Skyscanner that was hundreds of Euros cheaper than the next competitor, but when I did a search online for that particular referral, which was to mytrip.com, all I could find were horror stories.
I'd echo the comments above that sites like Skyscanner are useful for getting the lay of the land, but if you can book directly with the airline then you're potentially saving yourself an awesome amount of grief in the event that things don't go quite to plan.
Skyscanner by the way gives the airline's price as an option too. Usually an extra 50 or 100 bucks well spent IMHO.
[quote="CambodianDevil"]I've been going directly through the airline and it's worked out to simpler and provided me with more up front options than going through a middle man service. If problems arise, it's a quick phone call to resolve also. I have heard people have had success with skyscanner and I will check it out on my next trip. For rooms, I always use agoda.[/quote]
Skyscanner is useful and is always my first stop but it's an aggregator, not a retailer. They'll search around various sites to find and offer you the cheapest price, then direct you to the site you choose. Be aware that some of those sites are pretty dubious: I recently found a trip to Europe on Skyscanner that was hundreds of Euros cheaper than the next competitor, but when I did a search online for that particular referral, which was to mytrip.com, all I could find were horror stories.
I'd echo the comments above that sites like Skyscanner are useful for getting the lay of the land, but if you can book directly with the airline then you're potentially saving yourself an awesome amount of grief in the event that things don't go quite to plan.
Skyscanner by the way gives the airline's price as an option too. Usually an extra 50 or 100 bucks well spent IMHO.