We have found that a great place to get travel ideas and find great air fare deals is Kayak Buzz. We have discovered several insanely cheap deals on it and it is one of the first tools we reach for when planning a trip. So, what is so great about Kayak Buzz? This site allows you to search the results of recent air fare searches on key travel sites from a departure point of your choice to the top 25 destinations in 10 regions of the world. This makes it a pretty useful tool as it replaces the need to do a separate search for each destination of interest, and instead, presents you with 25 options for the best place to go depending on your dates and budget, since you can further fine tune the results by lowest fare, length of trip, and even specific airline. The lowest fare option, of course, being the one that displays the sweet deals. An added bonus is that a search will often reveal destinations that hadn't already crossed your mind thus making it a great starting place when you are itching to take a trip, but are not quite sure yet where you want to go.
Alas, there is some room for improvement. It would be great if Kayak also allowed you to search purely for the lowest fares available from a destination, but at the moment it first chooses the top 25 destinations within a region and only then allows you to drill-down on the lowest fares for those destinations. This means that places like Vanuatu, do not often show up and you have to specifically search for that destination. Also, if a destination is not that popular, you cannot be sure that Kayak is finding all the deals for it, since it is only searching the results of searches by other users. If Vanuatu, again for example, is not a popular destination, it may not discover that a particular airline is having a great deal in a particular month from your local airport. These gripes don't at all detract from the value of Kayak Buzz, but, if these options were a part of it, it would truly be a formidable travel resource.
Have you had any good experiences with Kayak Buzz? Do you know of any other similar tools on the web? Please share.
Monday, May 4, 2009
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This is a great idea for a blog. I look forward to the posts.
Finally! Everyone will learn some of your "insider" travel tricks and hopefully start seeing as much of the world as you two do! As proud Mom I still just want to invoke my right to having you do all of my trip-planning for me though :-)
I agree with anonymous I'm glad that you are sharing your traveling tricks with everyone so maybe we to will visit so of these exotic places!
Thanks everyone for all the encouragement!
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