Travel
UK sites comparing travel (flights, hotels, car hire and holidays) and sites offering travel insurance,
currency and traveller's cheques.
UK Travel Comparisons
Expedia.co.uk -
flight, hotel, car hire and holiday comparisons, also allows flight with car hire comparisons.
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to Ebookers, Expedia, Holiday Autos, Opodo and Lastminute on this page include advert links |
Opodo.co.uk -
flight, hotel and car hire comparisons.
Ebookers.com -
comparisons of flight, hotel and car hire.
Travelocity.co.uk -
holiday and flight comparisons.
Farebuster.co.uk -
flight comparisons.
Kayak.co.uk -
flight, hotel and car comparisons.
Lastminute.com
- includes a sophisticated Eurostar break and hotel finder.
Priceline UK - users can make offers on flights, hotels and car hire. Having found the flight or hotel the user desires, the user can then make an offer on the site
which can then be accepted or declined by the site's airline, hotel and car hire
partners.
Kelkoo.co.uk - comparisons of
flights, car hire and holidays
Skyscanner.net - the Guardian's
Sept 2005 flight comparison favourite.
Travelsupermarket.com - comparisons of
hotels, flights and car hire.
Traveljungle.co.uk - comparisons of
hotels, flights and car hire.
Mobissimo.co.uk
- flights, hotels and car hire comparison.
Cheapflights.co.uk - flight
comparisons
Cheapestflights.co.uk -
flight comparisons
Dialaflight.com - flight
comparisons
Flightline.co.uk - flight
comparisons
Lowcostbeds.com - hotel
comparisons
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Car Hire
Holidayautos.co.uk
- car hire comparisons (part of lastminute.com).
Carhiresearch.co.uk
- car hire comparison
You may save some money by booking your car hire separately from your
flight.
The international price
comparison page lists more international travel comparison sites. US sites can be very useful when booking US hotels.
Cheapest Travel Insurance
Moneysupermarket.com
has very good travel insurance comparisons - just don't forget the Which? minimums
mentioned in this Guardian
article the (£2m treatment, £1m liability cover etc.).
Travel Currency
Travelex.co.uk allows
you to order currency in advance commission free and with a guaranteed
best rate. You can pick your currency and traveller's cheques up
from most major air terminals.
Currency-express.com
is an alternative that can sent currency and traveller's cheques by post
to you. They also offer pick-up points at some rail terminals and
airports.
Other reasonable providers include:
Marksandspencer.com
- their larger branches offer currency at 0% commission.
Postoffice.co.uk -
again, the larger branches offer currency over the counter.
Some credit cards (such as the Nationwide) offer cheaper purchases.
Moneysavingexpert.com
has advice on travel currency, travel insurance and bargaining with
travel companies.
International travel comparison sites are listed on the US/International
price comparison page. |
Add commentUK Travel comparison sites
None of the sites you mention are actually comparison sites, unless you count comparing the prices of one product against that of another - Expedia, Travelocity and Opodo are merely merchants, not price comparison sites. Surely only sites that compare prices for one product from many merchants can be called a comparison site? Suggestions for true travel comparison sites would be cheapaccommodation.co.uk, kelkoo.co.uk and travelsupermarket.co.uk which do actually compare the price of one hotel for the same dates of stay amongst a range of competing merchants.-- Sam Cowen on July 05, 2005 10:23 AM (view details)
response to Travel Comparison comment
With regard to Sam Cowen's remarks, I disagree. These sites are comparison sites as you are able to compare prices for similar products, such as "hotels in Amsterdam" or "flights from London to Paris". I have also added travelsupermarket at his suggestion though.-- Michael Bluett on July 12, 2005 11:11 PM (view details)
Response to Michael
Thanks for misspelling my name - comparing a range of hotels against one another is not the same as comparing lots of merchants prices for the same hotel! If I want to buy an ipod, would I be interested if you gave me one price for the ipod at one merchant and lots of prices for lots of other electrical items? No. Well it's exactly the same confusion here.-- Sam Cowen on June 02, 2006 04:55 PM (view details)
More discussions on what comparison is...
Price comparison is comparisons of comparable products. It all depends on how similar the products need to be before you call it a comparison, many people would be happy with comparisons of "Accomodation in Amsterdam" and not require comparisons of "Hotel A in Amsterdam".-- Michael Bluett on June 04, 2006 06:43 PM (view details)
www.trabber.co.uk
I would also add to the list a travel site called Trabber
www.trabber.co.uk
I hope you find it interesting-- dan zar on September 14, 2007 07:17 AM (view details)
Jetcost.co.uk
I would also mention to the list a new travel site called Jetcost: www.jetcost.co.uk .
This is a really good travel comparisons website, it just opened UK operations-- Jetcost Jetcost.co.uk on April 16, 2008 02:58 AM (view details)
Why we have done something different with holidays.ewelike.com
We've launched a new site called Holidays.ewelike.com to cater for people like ourselves who want to go somewhere sunny or potentially just somewhere different.
Most of the sites in the travel area are thin shells created just as selling machines - and few help the users. We've tried to go the other way, and although it's still new our team are gradually making it better and better and feedback is positive.
For instance, do people really know exactly where they want to go all the time? I know i've stood in a travel agent before and asked: "where's nice and sunny with no rain in October?" and been met with the usual answers of Spain, Kenya, or the Caribbean even though the travel agent couldn't tell me if it's actually hot there, nor if it's even hurricane season!.
Now are we a price comparison site? Well I agree with Sam Cowen in principle - a price comparison site should show prices across merchants/traders so it's got grounds for comparison, however in the travel space it's unlikely that somebody wants definitively Hotel X so the comparison spans multiple hotels at the same location (and the prices, locality and star rating etc.). Ok this isn't quite the case for a flight from London Heathrow to New York for instance where a user knows they only want to travel with BA or Virgin Atlantic etc.) but most users are pragmatic.
-- Stuart @Ewelike on October 02, 2008 11:36 AM (view details)
www.cruisepricescompared.com
this website is a true travel price comparison site because you compare the price of the same cruise offered by many different cruise agents-- helen fuller on October 10, 2008 03:03 PM (view details)
True hotel comparison site
We have www.hotelcalculator.com - a true hotel comparison engine. It compares hotel prices from different booking sites serving Europe. Unlike the rest, the engine shows real time rates.
Wishing everyone happy searching!-- Michal Wlodarski on November 20, 2008 04:26 PM (view details)
UK Booker Hotel price Comparison
A newly launched resource for hotel bookings in the Uk.
Uk Booker
Not just comprehensive price comparisons for hotels but also local information and useful tips for travellers.
-- Markq B on December 01, 2008 04:50 PM (view details)
new comparison site
There's a new comparison site Hotelroundup.co.uk that searches over 30 online booking websites. It's very easy to use and delivers quick results for over 900,000 hotel deals. Check it out and maybe add it too your list, it's a true comparison site.-- James Ellwood on January 01, 2009 03:22 PM (view details)
Hotel Meta Search
Good list of travel sites, for hotel price comparison I have been using RoomWizard.co.uk it's fast and includes all the major hotel websites.-- Rob Barham on April 25, 2009 10:54 PM (view details)
Compare holiday rentals
At long last there is a site http://www.Directholidaybookings.co.uk that lists holiday homes of private home owners and agents on the same site. You can now compare holiday rental homes without having to keep on moving from one site to the other. I've found it very frustrating in the past trying to book a holiday home as the market was very fragmented but now it is possible to compare all the different holiday homes on one site.-- Andrew James on June 12, 2009 02:25 PM (view details)
