24 Best Travel Sites to Save You Money. Find the best deals online for plane tickets, hotel rooms, vacation packages and car rentals, domestic or abroad.
Feeling too pinched by the ever-troubled economy to travel? You can still find good deals to get away — if you know where to go online first. Want Twitter Travel Deals? TripTwit Does the Heavy Lifting for You. When Naveen Thattil found a $40 round-trip flight between New York City and Austin on Twitter, he felt as though all of the stars had aligned in his favor.
"I happened to be looking at my Twitter stream that day and the airline I happened to be following happened to tweet a deal," he says. Luck, however, is an inefficient way to monitor travel deals, and the experience inspired Thattil to build an algorithm to replace it. His product, TripTwit, allows users to set email alerts for travel deals by destination, brand or origin city. After launching without fanfare in December, the site has gained more than two thousand users since launch — mostly through SEO efforts (Thattil's trade) and word of mouth. Get better hotel deals with Hotwire and Priceline - Lifehacker.