Try Expedia. They include taxes and other charges, so at least what you see is what you get (but the same caveat about booking if the fare is good and not waiting applies).
Carolyn Carolyn Hastings Stow, MA USA > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lisa Thompson > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Travelocity - a cautionary tale (US) > > > Hi Tamara, > > I would guess that it was probably a coincidence. I've been > burned by this, not by Travelocity, but by booking directly > on the airline's site. We checked prices on Travelocity, > found the best fare, went to American's website to reserve > our seats, planning to call all the travelers that night and > ticket it the next day. When we went to actually ticket the > flight *one day later*, each seat had gone up over > $150. We went back to Travelocity and all the airlines had raised > their prices, not just American. Moral of the story: if you > get a good > price, try to ticket your flight the same day! If you read > the fine print, the reservation holds a seat on the flight > for you only, but not > the fare that's shown on the reservation, as we found out the > hard way. > > FYI: Travelocity shows flight price but doesn't include the > taxes which can be $100 or more, which is why we usually go > directly to the airlines site to see what we're really going > to pay per ticket. It does pretty well at finding the > cheapest flight, especially if you're flexible in your travel > dates, and will even list options like > splitting your flight between two airlines which are hard to research > manually. > > Lisa Thompson in Dallas, Texas USA > > Tamara wrote: > > > Checking out the very same route and date/stop-number requirements > > *as a member*, I got the same round-trip price on fewer > flights than > > the night before and two nights before (those two nights' readings > > were identical). > ... > > Tsk, tsk... :) It *may* be a coincident but, having grown up in a > > communist environment - where we *knew* we were being screwed at > > every turn, and learnt to expect it - I'm somewhat "Miss Marplish" > > (suspicious), and strongly smell a "switch and bait" tactic. > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing > the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, > write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
