In this question, I first heard of opaque hotel booking sites. It sounds very interesting, but I don't know such a site. So my question is: Where should I start to look for opaque hotel booking sites?
Following on from my question on last minute accommodation deals in Australia, I ended up booking something about 20 minutes before boarding my flight, which didn't leave a lot of time for research... I spotted a nice sounding 4* place on an opaque…
I recently tried Priceline.com bidding, but I got no result, meaning they were not able to get the ticket for the price I bid.
In the end, after adjusting the parameters (price/airport) several times, I got the feeling that they simply search and…
I checked online and on Priceline bidding a rental car rate is significantly cheaper than outside of the US (over 20%), including the CDW insurance.
But, this rate is only available for credit cards with billing address within the US. Which is not…
I went to priceline.com and tried their opaque flight option. Once I entered the dates, the destination and the price limit, it asked for my credit card information. I then started reading about not being able to cancel or refund your ticket and I…
In a response to this question, I have read that there are opaque flight sites:
An "Opaque" booking is one where you don't know the exact details of
what you're booking until after you've made the booking. The most
common form of opaque…
I plan to travel to the US from India this August. I'm sure I'll go and, while searching for cheap airfares online, I found most of the sites showing almost identical fares. A friend of me, however, suggested two sites-Travelocity and Hotwire and…
A couple of years ago there used to be a website where given the origin/destination and travel dates they would answer, after some time, with a price offer, in theory, beating market prices.
The trick here was that you wouldn't know the company…
