New Travel Deal Sites: Bing and Other Contenders

Text by Catharine Livingston

Fan of kayak.com? You’re in luck. These days, new metasearch engines for travel—which scan hundreds of sites to bring you the best deals—are popping up all the time. Here’s a look at our three favorite rookies.

1. Voyij.com: The most comprehensive deal-finder yet: Enter your starting point and dates of travel, then hit “Find Sales.” Up comes a list of cheap flights, hotels, and packages.

+BEST FEATURE: Need inspiration? The “Featured Experiences” tool kicks off the search by theme (“fishing,” “outdoors”), then guides you to the most relevant bargains from there.

+DOWNSIDE: Only covers North America and Europe. Stay tuned for Asia and Africa next year.

+ADVENTURE RATING: 4 Stars

2. Bing.com/travel: Microsoft’s much buzzed about foray into the metasearch world covers the basics well (hotel and flight searches), with useful extras like Farecast’s price-predicting system and topical travel blogs.

+BEST FEATURE: The “Hotel Rate Indicator” compares current prices with past rates to see if your chosen digs are indeed offering a good discount.

+DOWNSIDE: The “Destinations” tool only pulls up hotels for a given area. We’d like to see local highlights and activities too.

+ADVENTURE RATING: 3 Stars

3. Optifly.com: The first flight-search tool to scan more than 200 low-cost carriers (think JetBlue for foreign countries) in addition to major airlines, letting you build the cheapest itinerary, period.

+BEST FEATURE: Synchronizes with Google Maps to help you visualize your route—and avoid out-of-the-way connections.

+DOWNSIDE: The destinations could include more teeny-but-key airports (we found Kathmandu, but no Telluride).

+ADVENTURE RATING: 3 Stars 

Comments

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I always get annoyed with deals that have a limited reach unlike most that offers deals that covers expenses abroad.

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[gab]

I use Travelnhs.co.uk to find the best deal. easily finds the best hotel rate by comparing all the major travel sites. The holiday search is comprehensive too. Never found hotels cheaper off any other site.

http://www.travelnhs.co.uk

[Bargain Shopping India]

Instead of Bing travel, you should have reviewed another site specializing in travel.

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The best is number one :) Voyij.com

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Just looked at voyij.com and I think that this is on eof the best travel deal site. For some themes you can find good bargain deals there.

[Cruise Deals]

I love traveling, and looking for deals is fun as well! i love it when you find a cheap deal to a great destination, I love staying in apartments and not hotels :) I love traveling ;)

[brain tumor]

Been getting a lot of deals lately for travel abroad just don't know which one to take.

[WISP Billing Software]

I always get annoyed with deals that have a limited reach unlike most that offers deals that covers expenses abroad.

[James Cantor]

You should check out another new one - www.pricegossip.com

I find it to have the lowest prices always.

[Tyson]

Good overview of some of the new deals sites. These sites do a great job with flight/hotel/car deals but tend to overlook adventure travel.

Because most deals sites are really lacking adventure travel deals. I decided to start a deals site specifically for adventure deals.

We're still in beta but I'd love to hear your feedback on the site. We're adding new trips every day!

Check it out - http://Travari.com

Best,

Tyson Titensor
Founder, Travari.com

[Marlene Affeld]

Thanks for all the helpful travel sites. I appreciate the information and visit your blog often for the best in travel deals.