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Save/ShareToday, online travel agency CheapOair expands beyond airfares and rental cars to offer comprehensive hotel listings for more than 85,000 hotels in cities worldwide.
CheapOair is the ninth largest online travel agency, so you may not have heard of it before. What makes it stand out from the crowd?
CheapOair's hotel search page displays up to 500 hotel results on one page. Other Web agencies take money from hotels in exchange for listing them at the top of the search results. CheapOair doesn't, listing all the hotels available, which you can sort by price or star rating.
CheapOair also aims to streamline the payment process. It puts you through fewer screens than other online agencies to book a room. It also says it cuts deals with consolidators to offer lower prices than you can find elsewhere on some hotels. And like other Web agencies, it offers a money-back guarantee if you find a lower rate elsewhere.
On the downside, the site charges fees of between about $5 and about $20 to book some—though not all—hotels. Other hotels can be booked without a fee. The fee, if any, is disclosed on the "detail" page of each hotel.
Another downside is that you can't book dynamic packages, such as mixing and matching airfares with hotel rooms.
Its hotel rates will not show up in metasearch site Kayak, but will show up in the results of some other metasearch engines.
We'll keep our eye on CheapOair and update you as it continues to improve.
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I tried CheapOair to make a reservation and i was surprised at the low rate i found.
in the payment process, it mentions taxes and fees.
when I added that to the room rate, it was higher than the hotel's offical website published rate!
that was my experience and i wanted to share it.
cheers.
Posted By Khaled Al-Kuwaikbi on September 18, 2008, 8:26 PM
I tried to use CheapOair.com to book a flight for one of my junior Soldiers so that he could get home for a family bereavement. As the Website would not accept a card with a different name to the traveller I called them. They tried to charge over seven hundred and fifty dollars for a flight listed online at three hundred and forty-eight. They insisted that this was because the flight was within 72 hours, and said that there were no further cheap flights available (they listed several more when I checked an hour later). I went elsewhere.
If you want to deal with the sort of people who try and cheat young bereaved Soldiers out of their money, CheapOAir is the outfit for you.
Posted By Paul Brannan on March 7, 2009, 3:06 PM