No matter how hard I try to remain calm, every time I start to book a flight I freak out. I either feel guilty for not looking hard enough to find a shorter, easier, or cheaper flight or I look at multiple sites and scramble my brain as I try to keep the different airlines, prices, flight times and layovers straight in my head.
But now there is Hipmunk: www.hipmunk.com
Type your departure and destination cities and dates of travel into their spare home page and after a few seconds, a chart pops up. The chart shows all the flights that leave on your chosen dates. It is easily sortable by agony, price, duration, departure and arrival, and there is a button to click to view only non-stop flights.
It even shows flights with east and west coast time zones, an addition that is very helpful for me. Since I moving to California, I often have to calculate flight times when I travel back the east coast. I have made some embarrassing mistakes.
The three flights that I have researched on the site have prompted me to buy the flight on Orbitz. Two out of three times I did, but once the Orbitz site was slow and buggy, so I went straight to the airline’s site and used the Hipmunk information.
I haven’t tried it for hotels, but I am so happy with the service for flights. I also can’t wait to show it to my Dad, since I inherited the flight research guilt from him.
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