Thursday, January 27, 2011

Websites and apps for bargain hunters

iphone at st pancrasAn iPhone comes in handy at St Pancras International. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the guardianGroupon

the Groupon property is according to many, about to take over the world. Group discount service is the fastest growing company in the history of the web, and recently secured $ 950 m investment to fuel its ongoing growth. But what is it for you? Well, the site is dependent on a lot of people signing on daily offer increasing demand to justify the enormous reductions. Most quotes for more than 50% discount, and UK hotel and spa deals with pop up daily – recent search found 60% savings on country Hotels in Sussex and four-day luxury breaks in Morocco down from £ 1,080 to £ 268. It is also worth bearing in mind the voucher code such as vouchercodes.co.uk websites and myvouchercodes.co.uk, for the regular coupon offers – for example, 40% off Expedia deals with, and 30% Discount Hotels.com bookings.

also check out:netvouchercodes.Uk co. , livingsocial.com

kayakflightmap

Darling online travel junkies Kayak.co.uk world, remains best flight comparison site in your organization. The format is simple: enter your point of departure, your destination and your travel dates and then Let kayak do the rest. Trawl through your Web site just about each airline in the world, from non-transparent regional budget equipment for big-gun national carriers, to find the cheapest solution. Feature Kayak Buzz (Kayak Trends on the mobile app) is a nice touch – show the best fares found by fellow users for a number of popular destinations. Turn this with its brilliant interactive map cheap routes and you find yourself on a £ 20 return flight to Billund (Denmark) for some time. OK, perhaps you'd like not to a weekend in Billund in mid-February, but you get the point.

also check out:Fly.com, Skyscanner.NET, Momondo.com

trivago

In the last few years have hundreds of travel apps exploded on to the smartphone market. A number of hotel finders are particularly good fun – helping travellers find a last-minute cheap sleep. The Trivago app, which is free to download, is so easy to use as its excellent online site, allows users to search the cheapest bed within a variable radius of exactly where the standing. Alternatively, you can connect in a few parameters – say, a three-star bed to under 60 € within a half an hour walk – and it will spit out whatever it was. Once you've found your hotel, you can book through the app. Hotels.com Manufacture of app (also free to download) is worth a play also, as it includes the hostels in parallel with hotels, regularly table wine sub £ 10 beds in some of the world's most expensive cities.

Also check out: hotels near me app, LateRooms app, Tripadvisor app

car hire centre

Travel – with just about every consumer market – is comparison websites a very big deal. Which is not to say they are especially glamorous. But when it comes to partially annoying business of organising travel insurance and car rental, you would be crazy not to use a bit of time jumps around on the Internet. Car rental Traveljungle.co.uk is reliably good, comparecarhire.co.uk is. Try for travel insurance deeply exciting shops travelsupermarket.com,, comparethemarket.com (if you can banish images of meerkats from your mind) and squaremouth.co.uk. For packages (a complex comparison field, which have not yet really be cracked) see again, travelsupermarket.com on and dealchecker.co.uk. Then pour yourself a stiff, well-deserved drink.

also check out:Insureandgo.com(insurance)car-hire-centre.co.uk(car hire)

time out app

A small savings, but a very practical in emphasis as well as cash. The average paperback travel guide cost at least £ 10, but you rarely pay more than £ 3 for a app guide. Hundreds of thousands have flooded in to the market. Yelp, Spotted by Locals and Lonely Planet apps are all worth a look, show tips, according to where you are standing. Keep in mind that unless these apps used in the free zones Wi-Fi, taxes may spiral quickly. New guides from Time Out is probably the best, and usable without connection to the terribly expensive 3 G abroad – hundreds of tips they contain is native to the app, requires only your location (as the phone tracks for free). Hunting for food Urbanspoon, is a lot of fun and lets you search for local restaurants, according to the price and Toptable, is a decent app to find local restaurant offers in the United Kingdom.

Also check out: in your Pocket city apps, Foodspotting

skyscanner

Do not be afraid of the Twittersphere. Many, quite understandably, can not be bothered with it it is a very noisy place with a lot of chaff disguising tiny grains of wheat. But it is a common misconception that you for the good things have to Tweet even. You do not. Hundreds of travel companies use Twitter to broadcast their latest offers and competitions, TravelZoo from ever handy top 20 quotes of the week Skyscanner to often tempting deal of the day. You do not need to be signed to see them because we are nice, we have rounded up some of the most reliable travel deal Twitterers at @ GuardianTravel Twitter deal list, where you can find quotes (and occasionally other bits and bobs) from 13 companies all in one place.

Also check out: @ STATravelUKDeal, @ UKTraveloffers, @ Letsgo2holidays

free Wi-Fi finder app: lists free Wi-Fi spots in more than 10,000 locations worldwide.
Skype app on the phone: turns your phone to a free phone device – in zones, Wi-Fi.
Parkatmyhouse.co.uk: Park by houses near airports for less than half price of official parking spaces.
Flycheapo.com: easy to use directory of the European budget of flight routes.
SitOrSquat app: finds free public toilets in thousands of destinations across the globe


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