Bert’s Method for Finding the Cheapest Flights and Accommodation

This post details the exact method I use for finding the cheapest flights and accommodation. It is very straight forward and can take less than 30 minutes to find cheap flights and accommodation.

Finding the Cheapest Flights

If I know of a budget airline for the area I am traveling in then I check them out, e.g., Air Asia when in South East Asia.

I also go to my favorite flight comparison website.

I have tried loads of comparison sites and I know everyone has their favorite, and if you wanted you could pick a few and compare them, but I do not bother. This flight comparison website, for me, has consistently come up with the cheaper (or the same) airfares in comparison to other comparison sites (wow, I wrote comparison a lot in that paragraph!)

Also, unlike some sites, the prices don’t change once you have booked, which has happened to me a few times with other sites that claim to have the cheapest flights.

Finally, their customer service is pretty good and they send me vouchers by email. If you wanted you could book hire cars, hotels and even complete vacation packages.

Once I have found the flight I want on the flight comparison site I check it against the airlines website. Sometimes it is more expensive, sometimes its cheaper and sometimes it is the same. It’s worth doing as it doesn’t take long.

There are other things you can do like booking on certain days, clearing your cookies etc. but often I don’t bother – except booking in advance – I try to book at least two weeks in advance if I can. If you want details on other ways to save money as a traveler then check out How to Travel on a Budget by Aventuras De Viaje.

Finding the Cheapest Accommodation

I compare Hostel Bookers and Hostel World. These are the two websites I highly recommend, especially for hostels, although they also do other types of accommodation.

I’m not a big room sharing person since I like to work and stuff so I always try to find the cheapest private room. Often private rooms in hostels are actually more expensive than hotels. For this reason I also compare Agoda and Booking.com. Often all four of these websites have the same property at different prices, but watch to see if they have included tax.

You can spend hours looking through all the places in your price range trying to find the perfect place but I don’t bother. Instead I just put all four lists in order of price and between them I look for the three cheapest rooms in a decent location with wifi, then I just pick the best out of those three. Often they are more or less the same so the cheapest one wins.

There are many other ways to get cheaper or even free accommodation. Again, check out How to Travel on a Budget by Aventuras De Viaje if you are interested in that.

Well that’s it. I used to spend hours looking for the cheapest flights and accommodation. With the above methods for finding the cheapest flights and accommodation I can do both in under 30 minutes, assuming I have decent internet.

What is Your Method for Finding the Cheapest Flights and Accommodation?

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