Baby boomers love to travel and finding a travel deal is wesome, isn't it? The best bet for travel deals, great air fares and hotel bargains has been Travelocity or Orbitz. Now you have another choice - actually three.
My brother-in-law put me onto Mobissimo, Sidestep and Kayak. I tried them with my favorite flight, Gulfport to Chicago-O'Hare. Each claims to search between 140 and 200 other sites, to find travel deals for air flights or hotels.
Mobissimo and Kayak brought me almost the same list of 500 choices. But on each, the best fare was about $375, with one or more stops - and those stops were pretty far off the logical route. The highest fare on each was about $800.
I liked that Sidestep found what I knew existed. A non-stop, daily Gulfport to O'Hare. Sidestep returned three fares - $375, $363 and $361 - about $30 less than the fare quoted me by American Airlines itself (the carrier in question.) Not a huge discount, Gulfport airport is small and that flight is usually full. But Sidestep found the nonstop. I'm not sure why Kayak and Mobissimo didn't.
So, there you have it. Three new sites to make travel searching faster, and one of them really picks out the bargain.
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