(Economy travel) – The following five sites have been found to be the most useful for Budget Travel editors, who conduct thousands of searches per year.

Budget Travel editors reveal their favorite online resources for booking flights, hotels, and other needs.

Dohop.com

Strictly for booking air travel entirely outside the United States, such as a flight between Paris and Rome.

The site searches multiple airports serving the same city simultaneously – five airports in London, for example – and retrieves fares from no-frills independent carriers like EasyJet and Ryanair, which many more well-known travel sites overlook. That said, be aware that Dohop does not work as well for booking airline tickets from the United States.

Kayak.com

The best site ever to find the cheapest airline tickets to the United States

Our biggest problem with Kayak’s competitors is that when you click to book a rate, they usually take you to a new page. Sometimes it’s only then that you find out your actual departure time – or worse, you are forced to reconnect your departure dates and cities, only to discover very different results.

Kayak stands out. Once you find a good flight on Kayak, click on the price and you will be taken straight to the airline’s website, where the exact price for the exact flight you selected appears infallibly. Another plus: if you’re flexible on your travel dates, we recommend trying Kayak’s flexible date finder, which covers the widest range of routes and airports of any locations we have. tested. Budget travel: stay in touch on the road

Priceline.com

Grandpa’s discount helps hotels, car rental companies and airlines offload all kinds of inventory at prices well below published prices.

We recognize that Priceline’s “name your own price” option – in which travelers only know specific details once their offers have been accepted – isn’t for everyone. But as flexible travelers, we love using Priceline to blind bid. You’ll get the best results when you bid on high-end hotels in big cities, paying up to half of what other guests pay.

The trade-off is that the location of your hotel will come as a surprise. But in many big cities it doesn’t really matter which neighborhood you are in, because you’re sightseeing all over the city anyway. Of course, Priceline also sells trips in a simple way (with price and details listed up front), but in our opinion it is no better than Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz or CheapTickets.

TripAdvisor.com

Harnessing the power of the masses, the TripAdvisor hotel user review site is the best way to find hotels.

We recognize that the range of good, bad and mixed reviews on the site for the same establishment can be confusing. But you know what? After reading the reviews and ignoring the ones that seem fake or biased, you have a good idea of ​​what to expect in a hotel, which is the point.

So far, TripAdvisor is the top dog in user-generated hotel reviews, but we’re also looking at TravelPost, owned by Kayak, a recently launched site that offers a similar service (although to date it doesn’t only publishes about a tenth of the number of reviews and opinions like TripAdvisor).

Venere.com

Highlights independent overseas properties, many of which never appear on US travel sites.

Any booking site can point you to big, well-known hotels. But you might prefer to stay in a charming hostel or small property on your next trip, especially if you are traveling to Europe. Well, Venere is the go-to source for this type of family accommodation, which generally offers better value for money than chain hotels.

A recent Venere search for hotels in Nice, France, for example, revealed 20 locations charging nightly rates below 60 euros ($ 82). This is well below the usual rates of large hotels in the seaside resort. Venere also offers other types of alternative accommodation, such as apartments, guesthouses and farmhouses.

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