FLight bookings

Kayak

Kayak provides a good spread of flight pricing from various online travel agencies and airlines. It delivers price trends, other suggested nearby cities and a recent AI tool to customise your trip for great deals, specific to your needs.

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Skyscanner

Skyscanner is a solid flight aggregator that gives good detail on airfares and deals. Whilst is does not check all airlines, it is a good baseline to refer to for flight pricing.

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Points Yeah

A great tool for understanding the cost of reward flights (points & fees) from different airline programs and credit card transfer partners. Whilst US centric with the credit cards, it is still useful when planning reward flights, no matter your location.

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Seats.aero

Seats.aero is another option to review for award flight availability. The layout is helpful to give a one page view of award flight availability across all seat classes and can be filtered for specific dates and locations or used in ‘explore’ mode for more options. The free option allows you to view availability up to 60 days.

Hotel Bookings

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Booking.com

Booking.com is a solid resource for hotel bookings as well as apartment and short term rentals. The booking process is easy and their tiered loyalty program provides good discount on paid accomodation.

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Hotels.com

Hotels.com is another quality hotel booking aggregator that competes against booking.com. Sometimes its useful to review the same hotel and see which platform has the best price, for your travel period.