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At Opptee Travel Search, we're passionate about offering lesser-known, impartial blog travel tips and industry news. None of the companies, products or opinions we write about have contacted us, paid us or requested we mention them. All references are the result of...
Easiest Way to Find Best Travel Search Sites
To find the best vacation deal, it's smart to search several travel search sites. There are lots of good choices: Aggregators like Skyscanner and Priceline, metasearch engines like Trivago and Travelocity, opaque sites like Hotwire, package sites like Orbitz and...
What NOT to Pack on your next Trip
With ever-increasing luggage fees, it’s more important than ever to pack smart! There seem to be a variety of lists on what to pack and how to pack, but with the goal of minimizing, it's also important to know what NOT to pack. Here are our top 5 recommendations on...
Best Ways to Pay while Traveling
You’ve done your due diligence: booked a well-priced flight, found a discounted hotel and snagged a great rental car deal, but the savings shouldn't stop there. It's also important to consider the least expensive way to pay for items while at your location. Should you...
The Best Flight Search Tips
Searching for the least expensive and best itineraries for flights is a skill in itself. Flight search tips come and go and every year there are new and better ones than the last year. Here is the list of 12 flight search tips we think are quick, easy and most...
Turn a Business Trip into a Family Bleisure Trip
The ever-growing interest in combining business trips with personal trips is so common that it's spawned its own category: bleisure travel. And according to Skift's 10 Business Travel Trends for 2019, 'mixing business and leisure is here to stay." It makes good sense...
De-mystifying travel search terms: aggregator, consolidator, metasearch…
During your travel searches, you may have heard industry terms and acronyms thrown around. For instance, travel search terms like Consolidator, Aggregator, Metasearch, OTA and opaque fares. Have you wondered what they mean and how they differ from each other? Does it...
Craving an Authentic Travel Experience? Try a City Food Tour
When you’re traveling, eating good local food is one of the top treats to look forward to. However, if you’re new to the city, it can be difficult to find the smaller, hidden gem restaurants. You know, the inexpensive eating places that the locals know about but that...
7 Cruise Hacks: Wine and Liquor
Yes, the price for wine, beer, and liquor on cruise ships is steep! Though there’s not much you can do to save money on beer, for wine and liquor lovers, here are a few money-saving cruise hacks that we share from our cruise experiences and, you guessed it, our...
6 Travel Alerts Worth Setting
Technology can be a wonderful thing. It seems that everywhere you look there are automatic alerts that draw your attention to a variety of topics geared to your interests. We’re also seeing alerts you can set to help with travel planning – both before and after you...
Need to Know: Delayed or Canceled Flights
Update: For Canadians, the federal government has announced new rules on airline passenger protection, compensation. July 15 and December 15, 2019, will see the adoption of new rights for travelers. On July 15, these new regulations cover compensation for delays on...
