Expedia

[Anne_Aus]

Just a little information for anyone booking anything through expedia check the prices on both the australian and US site.

I booked my cancun side trip yesterday and the price difference on the same package was $200 between the sites, the US site worked out a lot cheaper.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Nice! Are you only staying in Cancun or are you planning to see more of the Yucatan?

 

[Anne_Aus]

It is just a quick side trip to cancun for some R&R I will be a nearly 2 months into my trip by then.
I am doing a cruise though after that so will see a little more of the area.. cruise is not counted as r&r as its with my US friends and a heap of bands lol

 

[aussiedad]

Have found the same thing. It is not alway the US site that is cheaper (but usually)

Another one re Expedia. You can often save a good deal on flights to Europe by creating your own trip as two separate legs via one of the Asian hubs (eg Singapore, Hong, Bangkok). Its a bit of muckin around to get your connections right but I saved nearly $1000 pp a couple of year ago.

 

[disneyozdad]

Here's how we organised our trip to the USA in June/July this year to try and save a few extra dollars.

We booked all our hotels through Expedia.com.au/Expedia.com/Zuji.com.au and Travelocity.com. This includes Disneyland accomodation where we stayed at Fort Wilderness Lodge, Animal Kingdom Lodge, Grand Californian (these three are amazing) and Paradise Pier.

Did not have a single problem and in some instances used promotions which saved us a few hundred dollars outside of normal hotel rates. You will find any Disney hotel promotions get passed on to Expedia.com and Travelocity

1. Use Moneybackco to receive 6% cashback on Expedia.com.au hotel bookings (used to be Zuji as well)
2. Use Bigrumbs to receive upto 6.4% cashback on hotel bookings for Expedia.com and 4.8% for Travelocity.com. Bigrumb cashbacks do take sometime to come through and in a couple instances the affiliate link did not work.

I think all up with the cashbacks we got back about 5% back. Which worked out to about $500 to $600

And just to finish off we used traveljigsaw.com/carhire300.com to book our car rentals (four of them) which also saved us hundreds of dollars. When you book make sure you take out the fuel top up option, otheriwse it will be added by the car hire company regardless for an extra fee. Carhire3000 are a broker so rentals like Dollar aren't impressed, they tended not to say anything and just issued my car (a blessing in not trying to be upsold).

Let me know if you would like any additonal advice about ticketing etc.

Thanks

 

[WAMUMOF4]

I just booked our July/August DFW to Lax return through Expedia.com.au it was the same price as the US one but Expedia.com.au let me book a hotel for 1 night the US one i couldn't work out how to do that and when it works out to the same money i would rather be charged in Australian $ so i have no credit card fees.

4 return flights 1 night at Hilton Lax $993.56 I am happy with that
We are still $3000 ahead of flying into LAX direct