Vacation Packages

The Vacation Packages section is primarily aimed at US and Canadian travellers, hence the change in terminology! I’m trawling around for vacation information and deals from the primary sites and will feed these into this caegory so that pages dynamically update with the latest deals. Although there are several principle websites that specialise in vacations for the USA (Ie: Orbitz, Expedia), I quite often find that when booking a vacation from Europe to elsewhere, booking on a US site offers a better deal, hence why I frequently use Sidestep. So conversely, I’ll be looking for European providers that might offer good deals to Americans as an alternative to the obvious travel sites.

I was just browsing around for some decent vacation package feeds to import to the site when I stumbled on Expedia’s new “Beta” service called, erm, well…it doesn’t have a name actually, but what it does is that it allows you to enter some basic search criteria and it comes up with a feed of vacation package deals relevant to your parameters. You can then add the “feed” to your MyMSN, Google, MyYahoo, MyAOL (or any other) personalised hompage, or read it in RSS newsreader software if you have one, and it will constantly update the latest deals from Expedia for you to follow.

It’s pretty simple at the moment, and the destination options are limited to the major US Cities or worldwide “types” of vacation (ie: casino, golf, Europe, family etc etc). Once you have selected your type of vacation, or the city you want to visit, you choose Read the rest of this entry »