Website of the Week: The Twenty Dollar Trick

The Twenty Dollar Trick

TheTwentyDollarTrick.com On Saturday, I was on Leo Laporte’s show The Tech Guy, as I am every week at 3:30pm ET. One of the stories I mentioned was hotel secrets from a front desk clerk who just wrote a book. Here’s the link to his 10 tips. But one of those tips is to slip $20 [...]

Website of the Week: KnowDelay

KnowDelay

Frequent fliers and business travelers will love this! It’s a website that alerts passengers three days in advance what the chances are of a weather-related delay. KnowDelay.com is a brand new site created by former pilot Geoff Murray that factors in meteorology and years of on-time performance data to get a better understanding of how [...]

Website of the Week: The Ultimate List of Airlines That Serve Free Alcohol

List of Airlines That Serve Free Alcohol

If you want free booze when you fly internationally, you might want to check out The Ultimate List of Airlines That Serve Free Alcohol list compiled by the website Maphappy.org. I don’t drink alcohol — especially on planes so I have no idea who serves it or doesn’t. But I know a lot of people [...]

Website of the Week: Pintrips

Pintrips

Similar to the way Pinterest works, this new online tool allows travelers to “pin” and see flights they’ve found across the web in one spot and share them publicly or privately. It automatically updates real time prices and availability no matter what site the flight was found on. Anyone you’ve shared a Pintrips board with [...]

Website of the Week: PointsHound

PointsHound

Last week we featured Rocketmiles, which is a new hotel booking site that enables users to earn mega miles. Another new site that was brought to my attention and is very similar is called Pointshound.com. Currently, PointsHound allows you to earn miles on over 100,000 hotels around the world in any of five frequent flier [...]

Website of the Week: Rocketmiles

Rocketmiles

Rocketmiles is a new and unique hotel booking site that is luring travelers by offering huge mileage/points offers. Searching for a hotel on Rocketmiles is different from other online travel sites as they only offer a handful of hotels in cities and neighborhoods. Currently they serve Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Honolulu, Houston, Las Vegas, [...]

Website of the Week: Mile Value Calculator

Frequent Flier Mile Value Calculator

Accruing airline miles is a game to most people but trying to figure out what the miles are worth practically requires a PhD in economics. To help you decide if you should pay with miles or cash, check out this “Mile Value Calculator.” The blog that it’s located on isn’t the most eye-pleasing but it’s [...]

Website of the Week: AirFareIQ.com

Airfare IQ

In keeping with our theme this week: “How to Guarantee an Open Seat Next to You on Your Next American Airlines Flight” here’s a brand new website that I’m sure they are going to hate me for featuring. But all savvy travelers and travel agents know about hidden city airfares. They are against airline policy [...]