is it cheaper to book hotel ahead of time? or will it be same price if you go to the place?

Q. when you book hotels, is it cheaper to book ahead of time? or will it be same price if you go to the place on the day and say you want a room?

A. It depends on the hotel and when you travel. However, you are almost always better off with a reservation in advance, and having one also can save money on the room rate.

Travel sites like Expedia and Orbitz require you to pay for the hotel in advance and there usually isn't a way to cancel or modify your booking.

Check the hotel's website as it may let you make a reservation without paying anything in advance.

If nothing else, see a real travel agency to make the reservation.

What is a good website for booking cheap, but RELIABLE airline service?

Q. I finally have some spare money to spend, and I'm looking to make it go a long ways. What are some good websites that have cheap airfares? I only ask because upon reading some reviews, I've heard some bad things about certain websites. Is anyone willing to share their experiences? Also, would it be cheaper to book hotels and airfares separately? Or at a site that can book them together? I'm new to this, any insight would be appreciated!

A. I would highly recommend both hotwire and priceline, flycheapabroad, and bookairlinetickets.com. I've searched around for airfare quite a bit, and these three sites usually ring true as the cheapest. Other than that, I'd go to sites like igougo.com, travelzoo.com, kayak.com, and bookingbuddy.com. These sites offer searches of multiple online airfare websites, making it easier and less time consuming to compare prices. As for when to buy, I usually go to farecast.com. They pretty accurately predict when a good time to buy a flight would be based off of past and current trends, etc. It's pretty useful. Another site I've found handy is rightflight.org. They did a bunch of research on the various airfare sites to see which sites are usually the cheapest. They also have a list of most of the international airfare sites on their webpage (60+), which can be pretty handy in and of itself. Hope this helped!

When is the best time to buy my plane tickets to Europe for next April?

Q. My fiance & I are going to Europe for our honeymoon- the wedding is April 12, so we'll go right after that. I was wondering when is the best time to buy plane tickets, book hotels... Is it cheaper to do it now or to wait a few months? I don't want to be too last minute (i.e., 2 weeks before the wedding), but would like to cut costs as much as possible. We're thinking of flying into / out of either Rome or Paris, or somewhere in between (cheap cities to fly into in either France, Italy, or Switzerland are also appreciated).
Sorry- we're flying from Cincinnati or somewhere close (Dayton, Lexington, ...)

A. From where? Please update your question iwith this very important detail, so I can check back and complete my answer for you. Recommended timing is different depending where you're starting from.

----- ok, from Cincy area

For April departure from North America, you have to consider when Easter is next year. The week before and after can be hard to find cheaper seats, unless you buy way in advance (like, January). I tried a bunch of cities, and cheapest currenly is Munich $703rt with USAir. But if you're not going around Easter, I think you can do better.

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