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Meet KAYAK PriceCheck - only available on the app. Simply upload a screenshot of your flight details and KAYAK will search hundreds of sites for a lower price. KAYAK searches hundreds of travel sites to show you your options and let you pick what works best for your trip. Track prices, set a budget, build your itinerary and more. WHAT’S IN OUR APP. • Double check prices, no matter where you found it: KAYAK PriceCheck lets you upload a screenshot of a flight deal from any site, and we’ll search hundreds of sites to see if we can find a better deal. • Get the flight you want: Compare flight options from hundreds of sites then zero in on the best one for you by using our filters. • Hotel rates only on the app: Find mobile-only prices from select hotels. • Car sharing: Search car sharing alongside traditional agencies for more options (and maybe better prices). • Know when prices change: Track search results for your trip and get a notification when prices change. • Search on your budget: Only have $300 to spend? KAYAK Explore will show you your flight options, on any budget. ONLY ON THE KAYAK APP. • Flight tracker: Get alerts when something about your flight changes or track flights so you can see if you’ll make your connection. • Trips offline: All your ticket confirmations and reservations loaded into Trips are accessible regardless of whether or not you have Wifi. • Measure your bag: Direct your camera at your bag or carry on and we’ll let you know if it’s the right size for your flight without incurring a fee. WE LOVE FEEDBACK. Got a question and in need of support? Send us a message at https://www.kayak.com/help and we’ll help you out. MORE ON WHAT KAYAK OFFERS. Find flights, hotels, vacation rentals, rental cars and more - then filter by what matters to you most. Like a pet-friendly boutique hotel with a pool. Or a 4-door sedan with airport pick-up to get you on your way. We bring together great deals from your favorite travel sites in one place. SEARCH HUNDREDS OF FLIGHT SITES AT ONCE. With filtering and flexibility options, you can quickly search and book what works best for your trip. MORE OPTIONS, MORE SAVING. Find mobile-only rates and exclusive deals on the app. Set Price Alerts to know when prices drop on the flights, cars and hotels you’re interested in. CREATE ITINERARIES AS YOU PLAN. Our Trips tool puts all your plans in one place. Get alerted to flight and gate changes, access boarding passes both on- and offline, and share your itinerary with friends – all in one spot. You can sync your inbox or manually add any part of your trip - from tour and restaurant confirmations to notes on things to see. CAR RENTAL DEALS. Search from over 70,000 locations to find the perfect rental car. Book risk-free by filtering for free cancellation policies. GET A HOTEL… OR A HOME. See your accommodation options from major hotel chains and resorts to local boutiques to apartments, cabins, beach homes and more. Filter for free cancellation if you’re worried plans will change. Plan your next trip with KAYAK. Download now to start planning a great trip.

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A joy to use

Kayak has been a fantastic company to use for anything travel! & has continued to impress me with their fun and very easy to use features. Airline companies often set standard pricing for their flights and the caveat that the normal person is looking for it matching all these flights with their specific needs i.e. layover timeline, # of bags, airline make/model, & flight times. A ‘Good Deal’ is a very generalized term and many other apps use that as their main means of persuasion when in fact it’s clear that sites like Kayak are so good at categorizing exactly what meets your needs and alining airliners to your schedule, like advertised they have a multitude of tools like bag number and layover timeline settings with a accurate representation of what the cost will be regardless if it is two separate companies. If you choose a flight selection that has a 2 hour layover for one airliner and you select ‘book’ the airliners website which it directs you to within the app has that selection already selected. I could go on and on about how easy and secure this app is to use so please give it a try.

Use hopper instead

I’ve used hopper forever as I travel monthly. A friend recommended kayak and I have booked 2 trips with it. The first it rerouted my and added another stop without letting me know on a round trip. The second, which inspired this review was a multi city trip. It messed up my reservation and I spent an hour at the help desi fixing it during check in for the first flight. After this story, it rerouted us for our next stop to have a layover in city in the opposite direction without sharing this information to or giving an indication as to what happened to our initial booking. I then went in to move a flight time after already paying for the insurance, I looked up how to do this on their app and when I hit “change” to see other options it simply DELETED our flight reservation with no notification or prompt warning us. We were not given a refund or other alternatives to switch back in or change flights. If you were wondering they do not have customer service as they say you need to contact the airline for assistance as they are only a third party site. For our flight home it has moved our reservation to the following day when I work and with another timely layover. I genuinely never write reviews but I hope this saves someone the trouble 😊

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I love this app

I got this app for one plane flight, simple as that. I was planning on deleting it right after because I thought I had no use for it. But then I started to realize that any trips I was planning on taking would show up on this app and would be organized by time and date (because I connected my email). I’m planning on taking an Amtrak to the airport and then back again & accidentally chose the wrong date for the train back, and because Kayak organizes the trips so well, I was able to catch that but if not for this app, that would have been $20 down the bin & a missed class. I honestly love this app because there are no annoying adds that pop up when I’m trying to figure my plans out & it helps me organize everything so well. It also works offline when I’m looking at my already planned trips which will help out a lot when I’m abroad. I don’t use the search tool within the app for hotels cars or flights, but they have that option as well.

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A Complete Guide to Booking Travel With Kayak – Will It Save You Money?

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Kayak flights, kayak hotels, kayak car rentals, kayak packages, kayak guides, kayak trips, kayak deals, final thoughts.

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Kayak is one of the many websites out there to help you find the best travel deals.

However, unlike other popular OTAs (Online Travel Agencies) that Kayak often gets lumped in with, Kayak is not an OTA — it’s a metasearch engine for travel deals.

Kayak shows you prices from other websites and will send you to that website to complete your booking.

Plus, with tools like Flight Tracker, Guides, and Kayak Trips, this site acts as an assistant travel planner. You can research and organize all aspects of your trip in 1 spot. That all sounds great, right? But how do you actually use Kayak!?

Overall, searching for travel on Kayak is easy as long as you know a few simple tips and tricks to find the best deals.

This guide will show you everything you need to know to use Kayak to search for and book your next trip.

Recommended Flights and Popular Destinations

On the home page, Kayak shows your “Recommendations” and routes to “Popular Destinations” based on your home city all before beginning your first search.

These sections are for very specific flights and dates, so they might not be much help if you’re looking for a certain itinerary. However, if you are flexible, these sections offer some great deals!

For example, I found flights for as little as $79 round-trip from my home airport to popular destinations like Orlando and Myrtle Beach. I also found a round-trip from my home airport to Dublin, Ireland for only $648!

Many of these deals are for flights as close in as 2 weeks, so if you’re looking for a last-minute travel deal, Kayak is a great place to start your search.

Hot Tip: You can change the origin city for your Recommended flights and Popular Destinations by doing a flight search with the new city as the origin.

How to Search for a Flight on Kayak

To start your search on Kayak, input your departure city, arrival city, and dates; then hit “Search” just as you would on any other website. This will take you to the next page, which shows a list of available flights. This is the main booking page and it includes a wealth of information.

By default, the results will automatically populate sorted by “Recommended.” You can adjust this setting to sort by Cheapest, Quickest, Earliest Takeoff, Latest Takeoff, Earliest Landing, or Latest Landing. To do this just select how you want to sort using the drop-down on the upper right-hand side of the screen under the main search bar.

Fee Assistant

This is a great feature that lets you include any baggage fees in the price you’re seeing. Since baggage fees can vary between airlines, this is a great way to see an actual cost comparison without having to search separately for each airline’s baggage fee policy.

Right underneath the Fee Assistant is a large box with a featured flight in it. Keep in mind that this is a sponsored ad, meaning the featured airline paid to be there. While this doesn’t automatically mean the featured deal is bad, it’s smart to keep in mind that it’s not featured simply because it’s a good deal!

This little box at the top left of your screen gives you Kayak’s best estimation of how prices might change in the next week. The box will tell you if it’s a good time to buy, or whether you should wait. This estimation is only for the following week, so I recommend taking their advice with a grain of salt.

If you toggle “Track Prices” to ON, you can create a custom price alert for your itinerary . This requires an email address and automatically sets up an account for you with Kayak.

Booking Preferences

Under the “Our Advice” box on the left side of your screen, you can go into lots of detail about your flight preferences. Customize your list of available flights using any of the following filter options:

• Number of Stops
• Booking Sites
• Flight Quality
• Layover Airports

Compare Sites vs. Kayak

On the right-hand side of your screen, you’ll see this box where you can compare what you find on Kayak to numerous online travel agencies and travel websites.

Clicking on the “Compare” button will take you directly to the chosen website and automatically search your itinerary.

Searching Flights and Completing Your Booking

The main middle section of the page is where you’ll find available flights for your chosen route. Click on “View Deal” to see more information about the flights and complete your purchase.

Depending on the route you’re choosing, the View Deal button will take you to either the airline’s website, Kayak’s booking tool, or another OTA such as Expedia or Orbitz to complete your purchase. You will be able to see where the booking is from right above the orange button.

On some flights, there is more than one booking option, but thankfully Kayak features the lowest price option first. To view other options for your chosen flight, click on the down arrow next to the orange View Deal button. This will display a drop-down box of all the prices on different websites.  Please note that this is not available on all flights.

Bottom Line: Kayak is not an online travel agency — it’s a travel search engine.

Hacker Fares

On some flights, instead of seeing the airline displayed under the price, you will see “Hacker Fare.” Don’t worry — nothing is being hacked and these prices are totally on the up and up!

All this means is that Kayak found a good deal on a flight by bundling 2 one-way tickets (usually on different airlines) instead of a round-trip on 1 airline. This can be a great way to get the best deals.

The only thing to keep in mind with these Hacker Fares is that you have a little less protection if something goes wrong.

Let’s say you’re going to Chicago for a long weekend, but bad weather cancels your outbound flight. Since it was a short trip, you just decide to cancel the whole thing. If you had a round-trip ticket, you’d have much more leverage to get a refund for the second leg of your trip.

But since you booked a Hacker Fare, your return flight is a one-way on a different airline, meaning that return flight has no real relationship to your outbound flight. It would be hard to get a refund for the second leg of your trip; as far as the airline is concerned, this is stand-alone flight. While this is a fairly rare situation, it’s good to be aware of if you purchase a Hacker Fare flight.

Search for a Flight by Destination

Another way to search for flights on Kayak is at the bottom of the home page, where you’ll see a number of popular cities. Click on “Flights” directly under the city name to bring up a page that shows lots of flight deals from your home airport to your chosen destination. These are all for specific dates, so again flexibility is the key to making this tool work for you.

Kayak Explore

This is a cool feature that is a little hard to find. On the top menu, click on the drop-down box from the “More” tab, and then click on Explore.

Using this tool, you can select your home airport, date range, price range, and trip duration to see where you can fly within those parameters. It’s a fun way to choose a destination when you have an idea of when you might like to travel but aren’t sure where you want to go.

If you hover over the price box on the map, you can see what city the flight arrives in. Once you’ve found your destination, click on the city name, then click on “Find Flights” on the right side to choose your flights and complete the booking.

You can also use the Kayak Explore tool to search for a themed trip, such as Amazing Beaches, Family Friendly Cities, UNESCO Sites, or Hiking Hot Spots. After choosing your home airport, dates, price range, and travel time, choose your travel theme on the right side of the page. This will narrow your search to only destinations featuring the theme you chose.

Searching With Flexible Dates

Sometimes having a day or 2 of wiggle room in your travel plans can save you big bucks! Using the 3-day flex search tool, you can see your selected travel dates plus or minus 3 days. This is a great way to see if you can save some money with a little flexibility.

To use this feature, select “Flexible Dates +/-” on the left side of the calendar drop-down box. You can also choose a Flexible Weekend or Flexible Month search. Now when you click on the Search button, you’ll see a chart of prices so you can easily see the cheapest days to fly to your chosen destination.

Hot Tip: Even a day or 2 of flexibility can lead to big savings! Be sure to search for your trip with flexible dates to see your best options.

Kayak Direct

This is a cool page under the “More” drop-down on the main menu. Click here to see all the places you can fly directly from your home airport. This tool also displays the approximate flight time, distance, and airlines that fly the specific route. It’s a pretty neat tool to check out if you’re looking for a destination you can fly to without a layover.

Booking Through Kayak

Occasionally it will appear that the flight you chose is bookable through Kayak ; this will show up as a Kayak price. However, while it looks like you’re booking through Kayak, you are really only using Kayak as a user interface — the booking is actually through a third party (usually an online travel agency like Travelocity or Priceline ).

This is important to know: if you have any problems, you will need to contact the party through which you booked, not Kayak. In this case, the ticket was booked through Priceline even though the user didn’t click through to that website.

Searching for a great hotel on KAYAK is really simple. First, choose “Hotels” from the top menu. Then input the number of rooms, number of guests, city, and dates you’re looking for — click on the magnifying glass icon to search.

On the left side of the page, you’ll see all the options to filter your search. You can narrow your results by stars, review score, price, freebies, location, neighborhood, amenities, ambiance, and property type.

Right above all of the search options is a box to click through to a map, which shows your chosen city with all the hotels marked on it. Hover over each dot to see the hotel name, rating, and price, or click on each dot to continue with booking that hotel.

Hot Tip: You can also search for popular areas for eating, sightseeing, shopping and nightlife on this map.

The middle section of your screen will have a list of all the hotels available for your chosen dates. Just like with flights, these default to being sorted by “Recommended.” If you want to sort by price, adjust the settings at the top right underneath the search box.

Note that the price you see to the right of the hotel name is not necessarily the cheapest price! However, the great thing about KAYAK is that you can see the prices for each hotel on lots of different OTAs as well as the hotel website. You’ll see these prices underneath the hotel name and rating; click the drop-down menu for a full list.

Tips for Booking Hotels Through Kayak

Prices shown for hotels don’t include taxes, which can be pretty high. For example, I searched for a hotel for a long weekend in Chicago and chose the Park Hyatt (listed for $475 per night from Expedia). When I clicked through to complete the booking, I discovered per night taxes of $82.66!

Hot Tip: Prices shown from hotel websites are not member rates. Be sure to check the member rates on your specific hotel’s website — they are usually lower!

When I clicked through to Expedia , Orbitz , Travelocity , and Hotwire , they all featured the $475 per night price and added taxes for a total of $2,230.64 for a 4-night stay.

However, when I went to book directly with Hyatt, I found a non-member total for 4 nights of $2,230.60 ($.04 cheaper), while the member price was $2,141.35 for 4 nights. So by signing up as a World of Hyatt member (which you should definitely do because it’s free!) and booking directly through Hyatt, you’d be saving $89.29.

Plus, you will be eligible to earn hotel points and take advantage of any elite status you may have when you book directly through the hotel’s website.

Hacker Stay

Another hotel available for the same weekend had an advertised price of $429 on all the major OTAs including Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, and Hotwire. This was also the price offered directly from the hotel, making the total for a 4-night stay booked through any of these sites $2,014.60.

Hot Tip: Booking a “Hacker Stay” fare can save big bucks on your next hotel stay.

However, this hotel had a “Hacker Stay” rate of $392 per night. The total price for the Hacker Stay was $1,839.45 — that’s a savings of $175.15 for the exact same hotel room!

When I clicked through to book, I found that this stay consisted of 1 night booked through Hotels.com and 3 nights booked through Expedia. If you choose this route, you’ll end up with 2 separate reservations and might have to switch rooms halfway through your stay (though the hotel can usually combine those reservations upon check-in).

Save Hotel Choices and Track Prices

You can save selected hotels to come back to later by clicking on “Watch” right under the orange View Deal button. This will automatically create a saved Trip for you with all your hotel selections.

To track prices for your search, just toggle the button at the top right corner of your screen (to the right of the search box) until you see a check mark.

To start your search for a car rental on Kayak , simply input your chosen city plus dates in the search bar at the top of your screen. At the top left you can choose whether you want to drop off the car at the same or a different location as pickup.

Clicking on the calendar icon will bring up a drop-down box to choose your dates, pick-up time, and drop-off time. You can also choose to bring up comparison sites underneath the location box to view prices at Hertz , Hotwire , Priceline , Budget, and Avis .

Just as with searching for flights or hotels on Kayak, searching for rental cars follows a similar pattern. To the left of your screen you’ll find all the options to help narrow your search. You can choose to sort your search by car capacity, car type, payment type, rental agency, price, and other car options like number of doors or type of transmission.

After you narrow your search, all your options will be featured in the middle of your screen. Above the list you can choose how to sort your results (recommended, lowest price, or distance), and you’ll see an alert if it’s a good time to book.

Each listing will tell you the type of vehicle, bag capacity, number of doors, rental company, and whether this is a Special Rate. These Special Rate deals will keep the car rental agency hidden until booking is completed. Use the drop-down arrow in the orange box or section on the right side of the screen to compare Kayaks pricing to other websites.

Finding the Best Price for Car Rentals on Kayak

In an example search, I found car rental prices all over the map. I searched a midsize car for 4 days in Chicago and came up with a price of $200. This doesn’t include tax, so you do have to click through to your chosen website to see what the actual price will be. Here is what I found:

• Kayak – $216.40
• Orbitz – Not available once I clicked through, but there were other car options available
• Thrify – $216.40 (I clicked on their “hot deals” button and got the price down to $207.69)
• Cheaptickets.com – Not available once I clicked through, but there were other car options available
• Rentalcars.com – Didn’t show price at all

There was also a “Special Rate” available for a similar midsize car for only $139.19. If you aren’t picky about exact car type or who you rent from, these Special Rate prices offer a great deal.

Lots of people use OTAs and travel search engines to find great vacation package deals. To see Kayak’s deals , click on “Packages” in the search bar at the top of your screen. From here you’ll see a search bar just like in the Flights section.

First, fill in your destination and dates to get a list of flights. Once you select the flight you want, you’ll be able to add a hotel to make a package deal.

Bottom Line: You can save money by booking your hotel and flight together through Kayak’s “Packages” option.

Right underneath your chosen flight you will see the “Add a Hotel” section. To see what kind of deals I could get, I searched for a 5-night trip from Boston to Las Vegas. This search returned 3 featured offers with varying levels of advertised savings, and I could see more deals by clicking on the blue “View More Hotels” button.

Hot Tip: The hotel offerings change quickly! The offers I had changed even when I did the same search only minutes apart. If you see something you like, you should book right away.

The first option was a hotel stay at Treasure Island Hotel and Casino, which advertised a $367 savings. I tend to be skeptical about package deals, so I wanted to check it out myself. Booking this package including a round-trip flight plus 5 nights at Treasure Island would cost $800.86.

Booking the flight separately was $216.37, and booking the hotel directly through their website would be $951.60, for a total of $1,167.97 if booked separately. That does work out to a $367 savings when booking the package, which is pretty significant and exactly as advertised.

Find the Best Times to Travel to Popular Destinations

If you have a destination in mind and are looking to find the most inexpensive time to travel, Kayak’s Packages have you covered there too.

Scroll to the bottom of the Packages tab, and you will see a section called “Search Vacation Deals By Destination.” When you click on a city in this section, you’ll be able to see price trends throughout the year. This tool will show estimated pricing for a package each month, allowing you to pick the most economical option. (Keep in mind these are just estimates and actual prices may vary.)

Hot Tip: Kayak no longer has the ability to search for and book cruises.

Kayak Guides is a great tool to start planning some activities for your upcoming trip. Guides can be found by clicking on the “More” drop-down box in the main search bar at the top of your screen.

From here you can input your destination or search by region or popular destinations.

In each city guide, you’ll find general information about the area as well as suggestions on things to do, places to eat, most and least expensive times to visit, and even average weather throughout the year. You can see how to get there including links to take you to search for flights. You can also see information about different areas of the city including links to hotels in that area.

One of my favorite parts of this tool is the map of the city that shows you popular areas for sightseeing, dining, shopping, and nightlife. Just click on the item you want to see and watch the colors on the map change to reveal the popular areas for your chosen activity.

This map also shows hotel locations. For more information, just click on a dot — this will bring up hotel info as well as a link to click through and book.

Bottom Line: Kayak Guides is a great resource to help plan every aspect of your trip, including best times to visit, local weather, and best areas for sightseeing, dining, shopping, and nightlife.

You can find Kayak trips in the upper right corner of your screen. This is where you can keep all of your trip information and itineraries in 1 spot. There are several options for managing this feature:

• Add your trip manually
• Connect your email inbox to import booking receipt emails
• Forward your booking emails to [email protected].

Once your flights are added, you will be able to see real-time updates for check-in, flight status, and gate change information. Plus, you will be able to access your itinerary offline.

Hot Tip: Use Kayak trips to organize and share all of your vacation details.

If you are traveling with a group, you can share all the trip details with your group by creating a link to your trip information page. Once you’re viewing your trip details, look for the blue “Share” button, which brings up a link to your trip information that you can send to friends and family. You can also allow someone else to edit the trip information from this button.

Kayak Deals can be found under the More drop-down in the main menu. This section differs from Kayak Packages in that you can’t build your own trip; the deals you find here are set packages that all include different things (vacation packages, cruises, flights, hotels, etc.).

Some of these deals were straightforward and easily bookable through an OTA, while others were a little more complicated. For example, I found a 6-day Dublin and Killarney rail vacation package, but I couldn’t just click through and book right away. Instead, clicking through took me to an OTA where I’d need to request a quote. While that’s not really a big deal, it does take more effort than just hitting the “buy now” button!

While you might think Kayak is an online travel agency (OTA) like Expedia or Orbitz, it’s really a different animal. Kayak is a search engine, and it’s a great tool to use to begin your travel planning.

The great thing about Kayak is that it compares prices between all the OTAs you’re familiar with (like Expedia and Orbitz), plus airline and hotel websites. This lets you see where the best prices are without having to go to each individual website.

Kayak also offers tools to help with planning and organizing your trips. It’s a 1-stop shop to research and plan any vacation you can imagine!

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does kayak work.

Kayak is a travel search engine. It searches hundreds of travel sites including OTAs, discount suppliers, and the airline/hotel/car rental agency’s direct websites to show you all the options in 1 place.

How Do You Change or Cancel a Flight Booked on Kayak?

You will need to contact the provider that you clicked through to (airline, hotel, or an OTA) to book your reservation for customer service. If you booked on Kayak, then you can go to the Bookings area of the site (accessible through Trips) to get support and information on your specific flight/hotel stay/car rental, etc. However, most likely you will still need to contact the provider directly.

When Is the Best Time to Book Airline Tickets Through Kayak?

As with booking flights from any website, there is no real answer to this question. There are lots of factors that go into airline ticket prices, so it’s hard to pinpoint when a fare will be at it’s lowest. However, Kayak does offer a few tools to help you.

The “Our Advice” box in the upper left corner of your search screen gives you a short-term prediction of how prices might change in the following week. You can also track your search by changing the Track Prices button to “On.” This will trigger a daily Price Alert email advising you of the current price trends for your search.

Are Kayak Flights Refundable?

Generally, no. Any flight that you access through Kayak will be subject to the airline’s cancellation policy. However, any flight booked with a U.S.-based carrier at least 1 week before departure can be canceled up to 24 hours after booking without penalty. (Be careful with American Airlines, as their policy only allows you to hold a flight for up to 24 hours without payment)

Are Kayak Hacker Fares Safe?

Yes, Kayak Hacker Fares are safe as long as you understand how they work. Hacker Fares are simply a combination of one-way flights that are cheaper than a round-trip. These flights can be on separate airlines, which means the second leg of your flight might not be protected.

For instance, if bad weather cancels your outbound flight, you might decide to stay home and skip your trip altogether. But since your return flight is on a separate reservation, it will not be refunded like your canceled outbound flight. Overall, this risk is relatively minor, but it’s good to know before you purchase a Hacker Fare.

If you are booking a Hacker Stay for your hotel, this will consist of 2 separate reservations. The only downside to this is that you might have to switch rooms during your stay. However, many times you can ask the front desk to combine your reservations when you’re checking in.

Why Doesn't Kayak Show Southwest Flights?

Southwest fares are only available on Southwest.com. You will not be able to search for these flights on Kayak or any OTA like Expedia or Orbitz.

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Katie has been in the points and miles game since 2015 and started her own blog in 2016. She’s been freelance writing since then and her work has been featured in publications like Travel + Leisure, Forbes Advisor, and Fortune Recommends.

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• The Palmerston C$ 40+
• The Parkdale Hostellerie C$ 50+
• Samesun Toronto C$ 72+
• Toronto Travellers Home C$ 82+
• Toronto North Travellers Home C$ 92+
• Homenets C$ 101+
• University Apartment - Campus Accommodation C$ 104+
• Woodbine Hotel and Suites C$ 167+
• Crowne Plaza Toronto Airport C$ 187+
• Toronto Don Valley Hotel And Suites C$ 187+
• Pembroke Inn C$ 189+
• Pan Pacific Toronto C$ 194+
• Best Western Plus Travel Hotel Toronto Airport C$ 202+
• Sandman Signature Toronto Airport Hotel C$ 208+
• Courtyard by Marriott Toronto Airport C$ 213+
• Flight Halifax - Toronto (YHZ - YYZ) C$ 135+
• Flight Abbotsford - Toronto (YXX - YKF) C$ 145+
• Flight Halifax - Toronto (YHZ - YKF) C$ 167+
• Flight Winnipeg - Toronto (YWG - YTZ) C$ 170+
• Flight Vancouver - Toronto (YVR - YKF) C$ 171+
• Flight St. John's - Toronto (YYT - YYZ) C$ 178+
• Flight Abbotsford - Toronto (YXX - YYZ) C$ 193+
• Flight Winnipeg - Toronto (YWG - YYZ) C$ 196+
• Flight Edmonton - Toronto (YEG - YYZ) C$ 219+
• Flight Halifax - Toronto (YHZ - YTZ) C$ 228+
• Flight Vancouver - Toronto (YVR - YYZ) C$ 256+
• Flight Calgary - Hamilton (YYC - YHM) C$ 257+
• Flight Montreal - Toronto (YUL - YYZ) C$ 258+
• Flight Moncton - Toronto (YQM - YTZ) C$ 262+
• Flight Québec City - Toronto (YQB - YTZ) C$ 272+
• Book A Bed Hostels C$ 33+
• Nx London Hostel C$ 48+
• Generator London C$ 51+
• Flight Toronto - London (YYZ - LHR) C$ 556+
• Flight Toronto - London (YYZ - LGW) C$ 567+
• Flight Montreal - London (YUL - LGW) C$ 593+
• Pod Hotel C$ 34+
• M Montreal Hostel C$ 67+
• Hotel Quartier des Spectacles C$ 103+
• Hotel Chrome Montreal Centre-Ville C$ 133+
• Flight Halifax - Montreal (YHZ - YUL) C$ 154+
• Flight Winnipeg - Montreal (YWG - YUL) C$ 237+
• Flight Edmonton - Montreal (YEG - YUL) C$ 245+
• Flight Calgary - Montreal (YYC - YUL) C$ 252+

Los Angeles

• Boutique Hostel C$ 46+
• Freehand Los Angeles C$ 60+
• City Center Hotel C$ 141+
• Flight Vancouver - Los Angeles (YVR - LAX) C$ 153+
• Flight Calgary - Los Angeles (YYC - LAX) C$ 245+
• Flight Toronto - Los Angeles (YYZ - LAX) C$ 267+
• Malate Pensionne C$ 19+
• Hotel Dream World Araneta Cubao C$ 26+
• RedDoorz Near Naia Terminal 1 C$ 27+
• Flight Vancouver - Manila (YVR - MNL) C$ 1,124+
• Flight Calgary - Manila (YYC - MNL) C$ 1,251+
• Flight Toronto - Manila (YYZ - MNL) C$ 1,256+
• Fabhotel Royal Residency Lakdikapul C$ 26+
• The Altruist Business Hotel Hitech C$ 49+
• Katriya Hotel & Towers C$ 49+
• Flight Vancouver - Mumbai (YVR - BOM) C$ 1,137+
• Flight Toronto - Mumbai (YYZ - BOM) C$ 1,232+
• Flight Toronto - New Delhi (YYZ - DEL) C$ 1,255+

Philippines

• Daylight Inn C$ 8+
• Hotel Uno C$ 18+
• Sunny Point Hotel C$ 22+
• Flight Vancouver - Cebu City (YVR - CEB) C$ 1,241+

Niagara Falls

• Advance Inn C$ 55+
• Howard Johnson by Wyndham Niagara Falls C$ 57+
• Ritz Inn Niagara C$ 59+
• Flight Québec City - Toronto (YQB - YYZ) C$ 124+
• Flight Saint John - Toronto (YSJ - YYZ) C$ 145+
• Winnipeg Peace Home C$ 59+
• Close to center C$ 62+
• Winnipeg Homestay C$ 67+
• Flight Calgary - Winnipeg (YYC - YWG) C$ 167+
• Flight Toronto - Winnipeg (YYZ - YWG) C$ 190+
• Flight Toronto - Winnipeg (YKF - YWG) C$ 193+
• Empire Landmark Hotel C$ 74+
• The Cambie Hostel Seymour C$ 92+
• Hotel at the Waldorf C$ 191+
• Samesun Vancouver C$ 215+
• Flight Edmonton - Vancouver (YEG - YVR) C$ 101+
• Flight Calgary - Vancouver (YYC - YVR) C$ 109+
• Flight Kelowna - Vancouver (YLW - YVR) C$ 112+
• Flight Cranbrook - Vancouver (YXC - YVR) C$ 123+
• Hi New York City Hostel C$ 77+
• West Side Ymca C$ 156+
• Central Park West Hostel C$ 217+
• Flight Toronto - New York (YYZ - JFK) C$ 185+
• Flight Toronto - Newark (YTZ - EWR) C$ 224+
• Flight Montreal - Newark (YUL - EWR) C$ 235+
• Hotel Hari Piorko C$ 33+
• Hotel City Star C$ 40+
• Hotel Ajanta C$ 42+
• Flight Ottawa - New Delhi (YOW - DEL) C$ 1,392+
• Flight Vancouver - New Delhi (YVR - DEL) C$ 1,478+
• St Christopher's Inn Paris - Canal C$ 52+
• Generator Paris C$ 57+
• St Christopher's Inn Paris - Gare du Nord C$ 59+
• Le Regent Montmartre by Hiphophostels C$ 64+
• The People - Paris Nation C$ 71+
• Hotelf1 Paris Saint Ouen Marché Aux Puces C$ 73+
• hotelF1 Paris Porte de Châtillon C$ 77+
• The People Paris Marais C$ 82+
• Auberge Internationale Des Jeunes C$ 89+
• Hotel De La Poste C$ 92+
• ibis budget Paris Porte de Montmartre C$ 97+
• Hôtel Félicité C$ 116+
• Flight Hamilton - Paris (YHM - CDG) C$ 432+
• Flight Montreal - Paris (YUL - ORY) C$ 514+
• Flight Toronto - Paris (YYZ - ORY) C$ 529+
• Flight Calgary - Paris (YYC - CDG) C$ 599+
• Flight Toronto - Paris (YYZ - CDG) C$ 612+
• Flight Toronto - Paris (YTZ - CDG) C$ 664+
• Flight Montreal - Paris (YUL - CDG) C$ 667+
• Flight Vancouver - Paris (YVR - CDG) C$ 756+
• Flight Abbotsford - Paris (YXX - CDG) C$ 790+
• Flight Edmonton - Paris (YEG - CDG) C$ 800+
• Flight Calgary - Paris (YYC - ORY) C$ 801+
• Flight Halifax - Paris (YHZ - ORY) C$ 827+
• Hotel Boutique Casa Mallorca C$ 92+
• Suites Malecon Cancun C$ 95+
• Wyndham Garden Cancun Downtown C$ 97+
• Flight Toronto - Cancún (YKF - CUN) C$ 273+
• Flight Toronto - Cancún (YYZ - CUN) C$ 298+
• Flight Montreal - Cancún (YUL - CUN) C$ 357+
• Sparta Team Hotel C$ 21+
• Socrates Hotel C$ 70+
• Victory Inn C$ 82+
• Flight Toronto - Rome (YYZ - FCO) C$ 369+
• Flight Toronto - Dublin (YYZ - DUB) C$ 506+
• Azores Youth Hostels - São Miguel C$ 36+
• Out Of The Blue C$ 53+
• Hotel Alcides C$ 85+
• Flight Toronto - Lajes (YYZ - TER) C$ 420+
• Flight Toronto - Lisbon (YYZ - LIS) C$ 536+
• Flight Montreal - Faro (YUL - FAO) C$ 544+
• Ottawa Backpackers Inn C$ 34+
• Saintlo Ottawa Jail Hostel C$ 46+
• The Stay Lounge C$ 96+
• Flight Halifax - Ottawa (YHZ - YOW) C$ 134+
• Flight Winnipeg - Ottawa (YWG - YOW) C$ 254+
• Flight Thunder Bay - Ottawa (YQT - YOW) C$ 261+
• Mount Saint Vincent University C$ 77+
• Dalhousie University C$ 79+
• A home like ours C$ 105+
• Flight Toronto - Halifax (YYZ - YHZ) C$ 134+
• Flight Ottawa - Halifax (YOW - YHZ) C$ 153+
• Flight Toronto - Halifax (YKF - YHZ) C$ 153+
• The STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower C$ 31+
• OYO Hotel And Casino Las Vegas C$ 44+
• Harrah's Las Vegas Hotel & Casino C$ 60+
• Excalibur Hotel & Casino C$ 62+
• Circus Circus Hotel, Casino & Theme Park C$ 63+
• Four Queens Hotel and Casino C$ 65+
• Luxor Hotel and Casino C$ 74+
• Flight Toronto - Las Vegas (YYZ - LAS) C$ 174+
• Flight Calgary - Las Vegas (YYC - LAS) C$ 175+
• Flight Vancouver - Las Vegas (YVR - LAS) C$ 178+
• Flight Edmonton - Las Vegas (YEG - LAS) C$ 215+
• Flight Winnipeg - Las Vegas (YWG - LAS) C$ 284+
• Flight Hamilton - Las Vegas (YHM - LAS) C$ 287+
• Flight Regina - Las Vegas (YQR - LAS) C$ 297+
• Monumental Movieland Hotel C$ 65+
• Grand Hotel Kissimmee At Celebration C$ 72+
• Developer Inn Downtown Orlando, a Baymont by Wyndham C$ 79+
• Ramada Plaza by Wyndham Orlando Resort & Suites Intl Drive C$ 91+
• Rosen Inn International C$ 96+
• Rosen Inn Closest to Universal C$ 99+
• Rosen Inn At Pointe Orlando C$ 104+
• Avanti International Resort C$ 108+
• Avanti Palms Resort And Conference Center C$ 109+
• Delta Hotels by Marriott Orlando Lake Buena Vista C$ 116+
• Westgate Town Center Resort C$ 120+
• Flight Hamilton - Orlando (YHM - MCO) C$ 197+
• Flight Toronto - Orlando (YYZ - MCO) C$ 243+
• Flight Montreal - Orlando (YUL - MCO) C$ 252+
• Flight Toronto - Orlando (YTZ - MCO) C$ 265+
• Flight Ottawa - Orlando (YOW - MCO) C$ 293+
• Flight Halifax - Orlando (YHZ - MCO) C$ 345+
• Flight Thunder Bay - Orlando (YQT - MCO) C$ 368+
• Flight Winnipeg - Orlando (YWG - MCO) C$ 390+
• Flight Calgary - Orlando (YYC - MCO) C$ 410+
• Flight Toronto - Orlando (YYZ - SFB) C$ 422+
• Flight Vancouver - Orlando (YVR - MCO) C$ 424+

Fort Lauderdale

• Red Carpet Inn Airport Fort Lauderdale C$ 89+
• Days Inn by Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Airport Cruise Port C$ 92+
• HomeTowne Studios by Red Roof Fort Lauderdale C$ 94+
• Plaza Hotel Fort Lauderdale C$ 101+
• La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham Fort Lauderdale Tamarac C$ 102+
• Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort Hotel & Suites C$ 108+
• Fort Lauderdale Grand Hotel C$ 113+
• Flight Toronto - Fort Lauderdale (YYZ - FLL) C$ 178+
• Flight Montreal - Fort Lauderdale (YUL - FLL) C$ 213+
• Flight Ottawa - Fort Lauderdale (YOW - FLL) C$ 324+
• Flight Toronto - Fort Lauderdale (YTZ - FLL) C$ 329+
• Flight Hamilton - Fort Lauderdale (YHM - FLL) C$ 358+
• Flight Québec City - Fort Lauderdale (YQB - FLL) C$ 387+
• Flight Vancouver - Fort Lauderdale (YVR - FLL) C$ 391+
• Canadas Best Value Inn Chinook Station C$ 64+
• Olympia Lodge C$ 74+
• Brother Li Homestay C$ 74+
• Flight Vancouver - Calgary (YVR - YYC) C$ 105+
• Flight Abbotsford - Calgary (YXX - YYC) C$ 111+
• Flight Winnipeg - Calgary (YWG - YYC) C$ 175+
• Asia Hotel Bangkok C$ 45+
• Prince Palace Hotel C$ 46+
• Ambassador Bangkok Hotel C$ 51+
• Flight Vancouver - Bangkok (YVR - BKK) C$ 1,047+
• Flight Montreal - Bangkok (YUL - BKK) C$ 1,181+
• Flight Vancouver - Bangkok (YVR - DMK) C$ 1,241+
• Rodeway Inn Fairgrounds-Casino C$ 90+
• Tampa Inn Near Busch Gardens C$ 94+
• Econo Lodge Airport at RJ Stadium C$ 94+
• Flight Toronto - Florida (YYZ - USFL) C$ 178+
• Flight Montreal - Florida (YUL - USFL) C$ 213+
• Flight Toronto - Florida (YTZ - USFL) C$ 265+
• Lyngás Guesthouse C$ 120+
• Hotel Hallormsstadur C$ 211+
• Hérað - Berjaya Iceland Hotels C$ 227+
• Flight Hamilton - Reykjavik (YHM - KEF) C$ 384+
• Flight Toronto - Reykjavik (YYZ - KEF) C$ 618+
• Flight Vancouver - Reykjavik (YVR - KEF) C$ 629+
• Hi Edmonton - Hostel C$ 67+
• Economy Inn C$ 75+
• Chateau Motel C$ 79+
• Ocean Island Inn Backpackers Suites - Hostel C$ 62+
• Cherry Tree Inn C$ 115+
• Victoria Gorge Waterway Vacation Home C$ 125+

Frequently asked questions about KAYAK

How do i find travel deals on kayak.

Simply use one of our travel search engines to scan for prices gathered from hundreds of travel sites. KAYAK’s search results pages have loads of filter options to help you find deals, discover exactly what you’re looking for and make booking seamless. Plus, there’s no extra fee from KAYAK.

What makes KAYAK a great travel app?

On the KAYAK app for iOS and Android you’ll find all the great travel offers found on the website and much more. There are special mobile rates and app only deals that allow you to save even more money. Plus, you can get notifications straight to your phone letting you know when prices for your next trip have dropped. But the KAYAK app is much more than just a travel app. Use the Trips function to manage your travel itinerary and get up to date status alerts on flights, check-in changes and to store your boarding pass. Even if you’re in the middle of nowhere on your travels, you can still access your travel notes via Trips, as no internet connection is required.

How can I use KAYAK to manage my travel bookings?

KAYAK Trips creates a travel itinerary for you that will give you flight status alerts, can be shared with friends and more. Simply forward your booking confirmations to [email protected] or use the KAYAK app and sync your email account to keep all your travel plans organized in one app, even if you didn’t book with KAYAK. You can share your vacation plans with friends and family and also check out your travel stats for past vacations, like how far you’ve travelled, your most popular cities and how many times you’ve travelled around the world. Even if you don’t have signal, don’t worry, as you can access Trips to check out your itineraries whilst on the road. Your data is safe and secure with us and you won’t have to re-enter credit card info when booking future trips. If you want to make changes or cancel bookings, then you should contact the travel provider, which is provided on the booking confirmation.

What are KAYAK Price Alerts?

Instead of manually checking back in on the price of your next flight or stay, let KAYAK do the hard work for you with KAYAK Price Alerts. Once you’ve saved your search, our data will determine how the price will rise or fluctuate over the coming days. You’ll then get a push notification letting you know when’s the perfect time to book.

Search flights , hotels , rental cars , travel guides and more with KAYAK. KAYAK searches hundreds of other travel sites at once to get you the information you need to make the right decisions.

Where do you want to go?

Big names, great deals, filter for what you want, more than flights, trusted and free, search cheap flights by destination, find cheap flights.

Save money on airfare by searching for cheap flight tickets on KAYAK. KAYAK searches for flight deals on hundreds of airline ticket sites to help you find the cheapest flights. Whether you are looking for a last-minute flight or a cheap plane ticket for a later date, you can find the best deals faster at KAYAK.

London flights

• Flight Edinburgh - London (EDI - STN) £26+
• Flight Edinburgh - London (EDI - LTN) £27+
• Flight Belfast - London (BFS - STN) £31+
• Flight Belfast - London (BHD - LTN) £45+
• Flight Glasgow - London (GLA - STN) £49+
• Flight Glasgow - London (GLA - LTN) £50+
• Flight Belfast - London (BFS - LTN) £50+
• Flight Glasgow - London (GLA - LGW) £50+
• Flight Edinburgh - London (EDI - LGW) £54+
• Flight Belfast - London (BFS - LGW) £58+
• Flight Belfast - London (BHD - LGW) £59+
• Flight Glasgow - London (GLA - LHR) £61+
• Flight Edinburgh - London (EDI - LHR) £68+
• Flight Manchester - London (MAN - LHR) £72+
• Flight Belfast - London (BFS - LHR) £73+
• Flight Belfast - London (BHD - LHR) £73+
• Flight Manchester - London (MAN - LGW) £110+
• Flight Glasgow - London (GLA - LCY) £115+
• Flight Edinburgh - London (EDI - LCY) £119+
• Flight Belfast - London (BHD - STN) £127+
• Flight Belfast - London (BHD - LCY) £133+
• Flight Belfast - London (BFS - LCY) £133+
• Flight Manchester - London (MAN - LCY) £231+
• Flight Bristol - London (BRS - LHR) £275+

Amsterdam flights

• Flight London - Amsterdam (LGW - AMS) £51+
• Flight Bristol - Amsterdam (BRS - AMS) £54+
• Flight London - Amsterdam (LTN - AMS) £54+
• Flight Manchester - Amsterdam (MAN - AMS) £54+
• Flight London - Amsterdam (SEN - AMS) £66+
• Flight Liverpool - Amsterdam (LPL - AMS) £71+
• Flight London - Amsterdam (STN - AMS) £77+

Paris flights

• Flight Manchester - Paris (MAN - BVA) £27+
• Flight London - Paris (LGW - ORY) £46+
• Flight London - Paris (LGW - CDG) £49+
• Flight London - Paris (SEN - CDG) £53+
• Flight London - Paris (LTN - CDG) £54+
• Flight Bristol - Paris (BRS - CDG) £55+
• Flight Manchester - Paris (MAN - CDG) £55+
• Flight Manchester - Paris (MAN - ORY) £56+
• Flight Bristol - Paris (BRS - ORY) £57+

Los Angeles flights

• Flight London - Los Angeles (LHR - LAX) £324+
• Flight London - Los Angeles (LGW - LAX) £347+
• Flight Edinburgh - Los Angeles (EDI - LAX) £413+
• Flight Inverness - Los Angeles (INV - LAX) £425+
• Flight Birmingham - Los Angeles (BHX - LAX) £433+
• Flight Manchester - Los Angeles (MAN - LAX) £434+
• Flight London - Los Angeles (LCY - LAX) £437+

Alicante flights

• Flight Cardiff - Alicante (CWL - ALC) £50+
• Flight London - Alicante (STN - ALC) £51+
• Flight Manchester - Alicante (MAN - ALC) £57+
• Flight Bristol - Alicante (BRS - ALC) £60+
• Flight London - Alicante (LTN - ALC) £62+
• Flight Leeds - Alicante (LBA - ALC) £69+
• Flight Birmingham - Alicante (BHX - ALC) £70+

Pakistan flights

• Flight London - Karachi (LGW - KHI) £379+
• Flight London - Karachi (STN - KHI) £383+
• Flight London - Karachi (LHR - KHI) £430+
• Flight London - Lahore (LHR - LHE) £442+
• Flight Manchester - Karachi (MAN - KHI) £445+
• Flight London - Islamabad (LGW - ISB) £459+
• Flight London - Lahore (LGW - LHE) £463+

India flights

• Flight London - Mumbai (LGW - BOM) £350+
• Flight London - Mumbai (LHR - BOM) £362+
• Flight Birmingham - Amritsar (BHX - ATQ) £365+
• Flight London - Kochi (LGW - COK) £386+
• Flight London - Ahmedabad (LGW - AMD) £398+
• Flight London - Bengaluru (LHR - BLR) £401+
• Flight London - New Delhi (LHR - DEL) £402+

Belfast flights

• Flight Liverpool - Belfast (LPL - BHD) £42+
• Flight Manchester - Belfast (MAN - BHD) £46+
• Flight Birmingham - Belfast (BHX - BHD) £46+
• Flight Glasgow - Belfast (GLA - BHD) £50+
• Flight London - Belfast (LTN - BHD) £54+
• Flight Leeds - Belfast (LBA - BHD) £57+
• Flight London - Belfast (LGW - BHD) £57+

Glasgow flights

• Flight Belfast - Glasgow (BFS - GLA) £46+
• Flight Birmingham - Glasgow (BHX - GLA) £46+
• Flight Bristol - Glasgow (BRS - GLA) £46+
• Flight Belfast - Glasgow (BHD - GLA) £47+
• Flight London - Glasgow (LGW - GLA) £47+
• Flight London - Glasgow (LTN - GLA) £47+
• Flight London - Glasgow (STN - GLA) £50+

New York flights

• Flight London - New York (LGW - JFK) £251+
• Flight London - New York (LHR - JFK) £259+
• Flight London - New Windsor (STN - SWF) £287+
• Flight London - Newark (LGW - EWR) £288+
• Flight London - New Windsor (LTN - SWF) £290+
• Flight London - Newark (LHR - EWR) £299+
• Flight London - New Windsor (LGW - SWF) £332+
• Flight Manchester - New York (MAN - JFK) £334+
• Flight Manchester - Newark (MAN - EWR) £335+

Barcelona flights

• Flight London - Barcelona (LGW - BCN) £33+
• Flight London - Barcelona (STN - BCN) £36+
• Flight Nottingham - Barcelona (EMA - BCN) £36+
• Flight Bristol - Barcelona (BRS - BCN) £46+
• Flight Manchester - Barcelona (MAN - BCN) £50+
• Flight London - Barcelona (LTN - BCN) £53+
• Flight London - Barcelona (LHR - BCN) £57+

Orlando flights

• Flight London - Orlando (LGW - MCO) £342+
• Flight Manchester - Orlando (MAN - MCO) £356+
• Flight London - Orlando (LHR - MCO) £375+
• Flight Inverness - Orlando (INV - MCO) £394+
• Flight London - Orlando (LCY - MCO) £428+
• Flight Glasgow - Orlando (GLA - MCO) £447+
• Flight Edinburgh - Orlando (EDI - MCO) £448+

Dublin flights

• Flight Birmingham - Dublin (BHX - DUB) £26+
• Flight Bristol - Dublin (BRS - DUB) £26+
• Flight Edinburgh - Dublin (EDI - DUB) £26+
• Flight Glasgow - Dublin (GLA - DUB) £26+
• Flight Leeds - Dublin (LBA - DUB) £26+
• Flight Liverpool - Dublin (LPL - DUB) £26+
• Flight London - Dublin (STN - DUB) £26+
• Flight Manchester - Dublin (MAN - DUB) £26+
• Flight Nottingham - Dublin (EMA - DUB) £27+
• Flight London - Dublin (LGW - DUB) £30+
• Flight Newcastle upon Tyne - Dublin (NCL - DUB) £30+
• Flight Newquay - Dublin (NQY - DUB) £30+
• Flight London - Dublin (LTN - DUB) £31+
• Flight Cardiff - Dublin (CWL - DUB) £34+
• Flight London - Dublin (LHR - DUB) £50+
• Flight Aberdeen - Dublin (ABZ - DUB) £63+
• Flight Southampton - Dublin (SOU - DUB) £96+
• Flight London - Dublin (LCY - DUB) £102+
• Flight Belfast - Dublin (BHD - DUB) £118+
• Flight Belfast - Dublin (BFS - DUB) £118+
• Flight Exeter - Dublin (EXT - DUB) £152+
• Flight Inverness - Dublin (INV - DUB) £172+
• Flight Darlington - Dublin (MME - DUB) £230+
• Flight Norwich - Dublin (NWI - DUB) £242+

Berlin flights

• Flight Nottingham - Berlin (EMA - BER) £26+
• Flight Manchester - Berlin (MAN - BER) £41+
• Flight Birmingham - Berlin (BHX - BER) £51+
• Flight London - Berlin (STN - BER) £56+
• Flight Edinburgh - Berlin (EDI - BER) £62+
• Flight Glasgow - Berlin (GLA - BER) £67+
• Flight London - Berlin (LTN - BER) £67+

Australia flights

• Flight London - Sydney (LGW - SYD) £571+
• Flight London - Melbourne (LGW - MEL) £612+
• Flight London - Perth (LHR - PER) £651+
• Flight London - Sydney (LHR - SYD) £655+
• Flight London - Sydney (LCY - SYD) £680+
• Flight London - Perth (LGW - PER) £691+
• Flight Manchester - Perth (MAN - PER) £695+

Canada flights

• Flight London - Toronto (LGW - YYZ) £311+
• Flight London - Hamilton (LGW - YHM) £330+
• Flight Manchester - Toronto (MAN - YYZ) £331+
• Flight London - Toronto (LHR - YYZ) £333+
• Flight London - Toronto (LGW - YTZ) £348+
• Flight London - Montreal (LGW - YUL) £353+
• Flight London - Montreal (LTN - YUL) £366+

Edinburgh flights

• Flight Belfast - Edinburgh (BFS - EDI) £26+
• Flight London - Edinburgh (STN - EDI) £26+
• Flight Bournemouth - Edinburgh (BOH - EDI) £27+
• Flight London - Edinburgh (LTN - EDI) £29+
• Flight Bristol - Edinburgh (BRS - EDI) £46+
• Flight Newquay - Edinburgh (NQY - EDI) £46+
• Flight Birmingham - Edinburgh (BHX - EDI) £47+

Manchester flights

• Flight Belfast - Manchester (BFS - MAN) £26+
• Flight Belfast - Manchester (BHD - MAN) £43+
• Flight London - Manchester (LHR - MAN) £74+
• Flight Edinburgh - Manchester (EDI - MAN) £90+
• Flight Leeds - Manchester (LBA - MAN) £93+
• Flight Glasgow - Manchester (GLA - MAN) £94+
• Flight London - Manchester (LTN - MAN) £105+

Bangkok flights

• Flight London - Bangkok (LGW - BKK) £434+
• Flight London - Bangkok (LHR - BKK) £455+
• Flight London - Bangkok (LCY - BKK) £511+
• Flight Birmingham - Bangkok (BHX - BKK) £518+
• Flight Inverness - Bangkok (INV - BKK) £535+
• Flight Manchester - Bangkok (MAN - BKK) £537+
• Flight Newcastle upon Tyne - Bangkok (NCL - BKK) £538+
• Flight Edinburgh - Bangkok (EDI - BKK) £554+
• Flight Darlington - Bangkok (MME - BKK) £561+
• Flight Glasgow - Bangkok (GLA - BKK) £563+
• Flight Southampton - Bangkok (SOU - BKK) £581+
• Flight Bristol - Bangkok (BRS - BKK) £582+
• Flight London - Bangkok (LTN - BKK) £582+
• Flight Norwich - Bangkok (NWI - BKK) £617+

Dubai flights

• Flight London - Dubai (LTN - DXB) £205+
• Flight London - Dubai (LGW - DXB) £220+
• Flight Birmingham - Dubai (BHX - DXB) £268+
• Flight Edinburgh - Dubai (EDI - DXB) £273+
• Flight Glasgow - Dubai (GLA - DXB) £288+
• Flight London - Dubai (LHR - DXB) £290+
• Flight Manchester - Dubai (MAN - DXB) £335+
• Flight London - Dubai (STN - DXB) £362+
• Flight London - Dubai (LCY - DXB) £369+
• Flight Bristol - Dubai (BRS - DXB) £385+
• Flight Newcastle upon Tyne - Dubai (NCL - DXB) £408+
• Flight Liverpool - Dubai (LPL - DXB) £415+
• Flight Norwich - Dubai (NWI - DXB) £426+
• Flight Belfast - Dubai (BFS - DXB) £465+
• Flight Southampton - Dubai (SOU - DXB) £485+
• Flight Leeds - Dubai (LBA - DXB) £490+
• Flight Aberdeen - Dubai (ABZ - DXB) £500+
• Flight Belfast - Dubai (BHD - DXB) £509+
• Flight London - Dubai (SEN - DXB) £616+
• Flight Coventry - Dubai (CVT - DXB) £628+
• Flight Cardiff - Dubai (CWL - DXB) £645+
• Flight Nottingham - Dubai (EMA - DXB) £667+

Málaga flights

• Flight London - Málaga (LGW - AGP) £35+
• Flight London - Málaga (LTN - AGP) £50+
• Flight London - Málaga (STN - AGP) £50+
• Flight Birmingham - Málaga (BHX - AGP) £51+
• Flight Manchester - Málaga (MAN - AGP) £54+
• Flight Bristol - Málaga (BRS - AGP) £57+
• Flight Glasgow - Málaga (PIK - AGP) £57+
• Flight Nottingham - Málaga (EMA - AGP) £63+
• Flight Liverpool - Málaga (LPL - AGP) £69+
• Flight Glasgow - Málaga (GLA - AGP) £73+
• Flight Cardiff - Málaga (CWL - AGP) £74+
• Flight Newcastle upon Tyne - Málaga (NCL - AGP) £74+
• Flight Bournemouth - Málaga (BOH - AGP) £77+
• Flight London - Málaga (SEN - AGP) £80+

Rome flights

• Flight London - Rome (LGW - FCO) £40+
• Flight London - Rome (STN - CIA) £50+
• Flight Manchester - Rome (MAN - CIA) £70+
• Flight London - Rome (LTN - FCO) £74+
• Flight Edinburgh - Rome (EDI - CIA) £81+
• Flight Bristol - Rome (BRS - FCO) £89+
• Flight London - Rome (STN - FCO) £89+

Lisbon flights

• Flight London - Lisbon (STN - LIS) £58+
• Flight London - Lisbon (LTN - LIS) £63+
• Flight London - Lisbon (LGW - LIS) £67+
• Flight London - Lisbon (LHR - LIS) £69+
• Flight Manchester - Lisbon (MAN - LIS) £71+
• Flight Bristol - Lisbon (BRS - LIS) £97+
• Flight Birmingham - Lisbon (BHX - LIS) £98+

Europe flights

• Flight London - Madrid (LGW - MAD) £57+

New Zealand flights

• Flight London - Auckland (LGW - AKL) £556+
• Flight London - Auckland (LHR - AKL) £680+
• Flight London - Wellington (LGW - WLG) £717+
• Flight London - Wellington (LHR - WLG) £754+
• Flight London - Auckland (LCY - AKL) £774+
• Flight Manchester - Auckland (MAN - AKL) £777+
• Flight London - Christchurch (LHR - CHC) £782+

Newquay flights

• Flight London - Newquay (STN - NQY) £27+
• Flight Edinburgh - Newquay (EDI - NQY) £44+
• Flight London - Newquay (LGW - NQY) £85+
• Flight Glasgow - Newquay (GLA - NQY) £106+
• Flight Manchester - Newquay (MAN - NQY) £111+
• Flight Liverpool - Newquay (LPL - NQY) £130+
• Flight Birmingham - Newquay (BHX - NQY) £133+

Aberdeen flights

• Flight London - Aberdeen (LHR - ABZ) £57+
• Flight London - Aberdeen (LTN - ABZ) £63+
• Flight London - Aberdeen (LGW - ABZ) £65+
• Flight Belfast - Aberdeen (BFS - ABZ) £135+
• Flight Belfast - Aberdeen (BHD - ABZ) £135+
• Flight Manchester - Aberdeen (MAN - ABZ) £146+
• Flight Birmingham - Aberdeen (BHX - ABZ) £158+

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What do i need to know before booking a flight.

There are various factors to consider when booking a flight including cost, fare classes, baggage policies, the complications of flying long haul, and complying with airport regulations. To make your booking journey smoother KAYAK has developed a comprehensive flight guide including insights on finding affordable flights, packing efficiently, and utilising the best travel tools.

What is the cheapest day of the week to book a flight?

The best day to book your flight depends on a number of factors, but there are general trends that you can follow to increase your chances of cheaper plane tickets. Based on an analysis of KAYAK data for all flights departing from inside United Kingdom over the last 12 months, the cheapest day to fly for domestic flights is Wednesday. For international flights, Tuesday had the cheapest tickets on average.

Which month of the year are flight prices lowest?

It’s well established that flights in the low season are generally cheaper than ticket prices during the high season. That means that knowing which month to find the lowest priced plane tickets will depend heavily on seasonality and your destination. While avoiding peak travel times can help you keep costs down, our data shows that the month with the lowest priced plane tickets for domestic flights based on all searches made on KAYAK in the last 12 months was January, while the most expensive was August. If you’re booking an international flight, then April is the cheapest month to fly and July the most expensive.

When is the best time to buy plane tickets - Last minute or in advance?

Last minute flight deals are definitely up for grabs, but when exactly to purchase your plane tickets will depend on where you’re travelling to and from. Based on all data for flight searches made on KAYAK over the last 12 months, prices for domestic flights remained below the average price up to 1 week before departure. For international flights, deals could still be had up to 1 week prior to the departure date, with prices remaining below average. If you’re flexible, KAYAK brings you both advance and last minute one-way and round-trip flight deals.

Can flying international flights with a layover save money on airfare?

For many long-haul international flights, flying direct is not possible and you will have to fly with stopover. Some routes will offer both and you could consider flying with a stopover for a number of reasons. Firstly, breaking up what would otherwise be a long-haul flight, taking a rest and then completing the journey might make the flight more manageable. Secondly, prices can also be lower than direct flights, so while it might take longer for you to reach your destination, you could save money. We’ve looked at prices over the last 12 months for the 100 most popular international destinations for KAYAK users and on average, prices for non-stop flights were cheaper than flights with a layover.

How does KAYAK find such low flight prices?

KAYAK processes over 2 billion flight queries annually and displays results from hundreds of airlines and third party sites, allowing it to find a variety of flight prices and options. It also displays results from 2M+ properties along with car hire, holiday packages, activities and millions of verified reviews so users can see as many available travel options as possible.

How do I find the best flight deals on KAYAK?

A simple flight search at https://www.kayak.co.uk/flights scans for prices on hundreds of travel sites in seconds. We gather flight deals from across the web and put them in one place. Then on the search results page you can use various filters to compare options for the same flight and easily choose the best flight deal from all of the deals coming straight from the travel sites to your screen, with no extra fee from KAYAK.

How can Hacker Fares save me money?

Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets on different airlines when it can save you money over a traditional return ticket.

Does KAYAK query more flight providers than competitors?

Yes, KAYAK has access to more data and information than online travel agencies and consistently outperforms the competition in accuracy, globally.

How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy?

KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a given destination and date is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care?

Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you flights up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. That way, you can see if leaving a day or two earlier will find you a better deal. You can also select the flexible 'weekend' or 'month' search options to widen your search range and find the cheapest price that works for you.

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What is Kayak? How does it work?

Is kayak reliable, ways to get a good deal on kayak, the bottom line.

When it comes to booking travel, it sometimes feels like there are an unlimited number of online travel agencies to choose from — and Kayak is one of them. But is Kayak legit? Can it actually help you get a good deal when booking travel? We did some digging to find out.

Kayak bills itself as the world’s leading travel search engine. It’s not a booking site. Instead, think of it as an aggregator: Kayak scans hundreds of third-party travel and brand websites and shows you the best prices. That means you’ll likely find a wider range of pricing for a single room or rental car than you would on direct booking sites.

Kayak shows you a list of pricing and booking options for every flight, rental car or hotel from dozens of individual travel operator websites, including other popular booking platforms like Priceline and Booking.com (Kayak is owned by the same company as those two).

To find the best travel deal, select what type of travel you want to book and insert your dates and destination. You can search for:

Rental cars.

Vacation rentals and more.

Then, Kayak shows available options from multiple companies and booking platforms.

Take flights, for example. When you search and see an option that suits you, click on the listing for more details and information on where you’ll be booking, then click “View deal” and Kayak will transfer you to the booking website, whether that’s an airline website or a different OTA like Expedia.

If there’s a drop-down menu, that means there are various booking and pricing options for your selected itinerary and you can click on the arrow to check prices across multiple platforms.

Booking a hotel works about the same way. Perform your search, browse the list of available options, then click on the property listing to see more details and prices across multiple platforms. Click “View deal” to be taken directly to the booking page on the site with the best price. There, you may be shown similar properties for even more booking options.

Rental cars work similarly, though the car rental company will be displayed on the search page in addition to details about the cars available.

Kayak is just as reliable as other travel search engines, so there’s no need to wonder, "can I trust Kayak?" In reality, it can often be more reliable than third-party booking sites since its users are driven to individual travel providers for booking. This act of booking directly often means you’ll have access to better customer service in case your plans change, you have to adjust your travel schedule or you want to update a booking. Since Kayak isn’t a booking platform, their customer service can’t help with those issues.

Do be aware that price fluctuations are a possibility. Occasionally, you may conduct a search that reveals one price, then, when you select “View deal” and are taken to the booking page of another website, you could see a price change alert and a slightly different deal than was just listed on Kayak.

Likewise, it’s not a bad idea if you book a hotel using one of the third-party sites listed to call and confirm your reservation as sometimes third-party bookings can get lost in the shuffle. And keep in mind that if you’re hoping to earn points for your stay, the easiest way to do so is to book directly with the provider.

» Learn more: The pros and cons of booking through online travel agencies

There are, of course, tips and tricks for getting even better deals on travel when using Kayak.

Use search filters and price calendars

For hotels and other stays, you can select filters like:

Hotel chain.

Neighborhood.

Review scores.

Specific amenities like free parking and breakfast.

Star rating and more.

There’s also a color-coded calendar that highlights what days might be cheaper for travel, which could help you locate a better deal if your plans are flexible. Search flexibility based on price isn’t as robust as on search sites like Google Flights, which offers detailed graphs, charts and calendars, but there are still options.

Consider a Hacker Fare

It sounds like cheating, but these fares are legit. They usually occur when Kayak finds a great deal on a round-trip flight by utilizing multiple airlines. For example, the cheapest round-trip flight Kayak found from Miami to Boston was a departing flight on American Airlines and a return flight on JetBlue Airways booked through Expedia.

This search concept isn’t original to Kayak — you can perform similar searches on Google Flights — but it’s a handy one to consider if you’re looking for the absolute best deal on air travel.

» Learn more: How to choose a travel credit card

Create an account to save cash

At least for hotel bookings, travelers with a Kayak Explorer Rewards account can sometimes get access to exclusive deals. It doesn’t cost anything to sign up for this loyalty program, so anyone can claim these deals, plus, those with an account can also track price fluctuations, get notified when prices drop and organize travel plans.

Set a price alert

Most travel search engines offer the option to set a price alert and Kayak is no exception. So if you’re not quite ready to book, set up an alert for your preferred travel days and destinations, and Kayak will notify you when prices go up or down to help you score the best deal. The feature is available for flights and hotels.

» Learn more: The best travel credit cards right now

Is Kayak legit? Absolutely. Is Kayak a good deal? It can be. While it isn’t a booking platform, it can help you find better prices for flights, hotels, rental cars and more by scanning actual booking sites across the web. Just make sure to take note of what platform or travel site you actually book with in case you have to make changes to your itinerary.

Using the site’s many search and alert tools can be a smart money move for finding a good travel deal.

How to maximize your rewards

You want a travel credit card that prioritizes what’s important to you. Here are our picks for the best travel credit cards of 2024 , including those best for:

Flexibility, point transfers and a large bonus: Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card

No annual fee: Bank of America® Travel Rewards credit card

Flat-rate travel rewards: Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card

Bonus travel rewards and high-end perks: Chase Sapphire Reserve®

Luxury perks: The Platinum Card® from American Express

Business travelers: Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card

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1x-5x 5x on travel purchased through Chase Travel℠, 3x on dining, select streaming services and online groceries, 2x on all other travel purchases, 1x on all other purchases.

75,000 Earn 75,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening. That's over $900 when you redeem through Chase Travel℠.

1.5%-5% Enjoy 5% cash back on travel purchased through Chase Travel, 3% cash back on drugstore purchases and dining at restaurants, including takeout and eligible delivery service, and unlimited 1.5% cash back on all other purchases.

Up to $300 Earn an additional 1.5% cash back on everything you buy (on up to $20,000 spent in the first year) - worth up to $300 cash back!

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2x-5x Earn unlimited 2X miles on every purchase, every day. Earn 5X miles on hotels and rental cars booked through Capital One Travel, where you'll get Capital One's best prices on thousands of trip options.

75,000 Enjoy a one-time bonus of 75,000 miles once you spend $4,000 on purchases within 3 months from account opening, equal to $750 in travel.

This Kayak Travel Planning Tool Is a Well-Kept Secret Every Traveler Should Know About

Here’s how to use kayak direct as a resource to plan your next trip..

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Using Kayak Direct, the writer was able to find a nonstop flights between Jamaica and Fort Lauderdale this May for just $226 round trip.

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Whether or not you subscribe to Kayak or use its booking engine, the website—and the planning tools embedded therein—are something everyone can use for free. This includes a highly useful feature called Kayak Direct , launched back in 2011 as a hackathon project among the Kayak product team but has since remained a well-kept secret among travel planners and travel geeks.

A useful instrument for determining destinations that can be reached via nonstop flights from your home or desired airport (big and small), Kayak Direct also tells you which airlines can get you there and the cheapest dates to reach a desired destination (if you have flexibility).

We’ve written in the past about using Wikipedia and Google Flights as top resources for travel planning. Kayak Direct is another, lesser-known asset for plotting your next trip. Here’s how to take full advantage of it.

Discovering nonstop destinations and the time and distance to get there

Kayak Direct makes it easy to see all the nonstop destinations available from a specific airport via commercial aircraft. The landing page will automatically populate with options from the airport closest to you (based on your computer or phone’s GPS). But simply type in a different airport in the first available field, choose your optimal month for travel, click the search button, and voila: You’ll see all the places available via nonstop flights.

The resulting information is well organized and easy to digest. Options are listed in order of distance (and time from your home airport). For example, I’d like to explore possibilities for getaways in June 2023 from my home airport, Fort Lauderdale (FLL). Given all the issues with travel these days, I don’t want anything but a nonstop flight. I enter this information into the appropriate fields and see that I can hop on something as short as a 45-minute, 60-mile flight to Bimini in the Bahamas.

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At the other end of the spectrum, I can go all the way to Oslo, Norway, 4,708 miles away on a single flight from Fort Lauderdale. (Note: All destinations between Bimini and Oslo have not been listed in the name of brevity.)

When and how to get to your destination

On the right-hand side of the populated information, you’ll see a list of the airlines that can possibly reach each destination. If you click on the expansion arrow, you can see more details on flight schedules. Just because an airline icon is listed doesn’t mean the airline flies to the destination. The icons are simply showing the airlines through which you can book flights thanks to code-share arrangements.

Resorting to our previous example of Fort Lauderdale to Bimini, we see from the schedule that identical flights are sold by JetBlue, Silver Airways, and United. (If and when you reach the point of booking, you’ll discover it’s Silver Airways that operates the flight.) We also see that there’s no airlift between the two airports on Mondays and Tuesdays—there goes my idea of a long summer weekend in Bimini using a commercial aircraft!

Assessing options at any budget

On the same landing page, after entering your home or desired airport and ideal travel month and scrolling through the info, return to the top left-hand side and click “show routes on map” to explore pricing. This will reroute to another page with an interactive map that plots possible nonstop destinations and the cheapest round-trip flights there. You now have an option of filling in the field of a desired destination, which can be as general as anywhere, a continent, or a region. Then you can choose a date range or exact dates and the length of trip between 1 and 14+ days. You can further adjust your options by budget or flight duration.

Let’s clarify with another example. I am toying with the idea of going from Fort Lauderdale to the Caribbean for three to six days in May. I’m flexible with my dates but not my budget. I don’t want to spend more than $200 on a round-trip flight. I enter my info and slide the budget scale to $200 to reveal options that include Puerto Rico, St. Croix, and Key West (which isn’t really the Caribbean, but we appreciate that it appears as a viable alternative).

These destinations aren’t what I had in mind for my May trip. So, I slide the scale to $280 and see that now the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and the Bahamas have been added to the mix. From there, I click on the destinations to see which dates offer the best prices, and I’m on my way to Montego Bay in May for $226 round trip.

By understanding and using the power of Kayak Direct, you can figure out how to reach nonstop destinations in a cost-effective manner. This doesn’t substitute for our favorite travel duo, Wikipedia + Google Flights , but it’s a great supplement.

Travel Off Path

These Are The Top 6 Trending Destinations In Europe According To Kayak

Posted: May 12, 2024 | Last updated: May 12, 2024

6. Frankfurt, Germany

5. Bucharest, Romania

4. Zurich, Switzerland

3. Budapest, Hungary

2. Vienna, Austria

1. Tirana, Albania

Dale Peterson

Dale is a full-time traveler and writer with over 6 years of experience. She's traveled to more than 55 countries around the globe and specializes in covering solo travel and digital nomadism.

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Kayak CEO Says Online Travel ‘Still Sucks’ and He Wants to Stay ‘Until It’s Fixed’

Dennis Schaal , Skift

May 11th, 2024 at 6:34 PM EDT

Twenty years later, Google is the leading global player in travel metasearch. Steve Hafner can do little about that but argues travelers can snack on Google but they should come to Kayak for better results when they are ready to book.

Dennis Schaal

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What are the top trends impacting hotels, airlines, and online bookings? We speak to the executives shaping the future of travel.

The Kayak website launched to the public in May 2004 as a pioneer in travel metasearch.

When Kayak had its IPO in 2012, it was such a big deal in the travel and tech world that Skift published a live blog to follow every development.

A few months later, Priceline Group – now called Booking Holdings – announced a deal to scoop it up  $2.1 billion.

We caught up with Steve Hafner, co-founder and CEO of Kayak and also OpenTable, on a Zoom call while he was in an Uber in Manhattan. We also exchanged emails with the other co-founder, serial entrepreneur Paul English about the 20th anniversary of Kayak’s launch.

The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

Dennis Schaal: So, Steve, why are you still here? Why are you still at Kayak?

Steve Hafner: Because online travel hasn’t been solved yet. So look, it’s come a long way in the last 20 years. I think when we started, online travel really sucked. It just made the transition from offline to online, but it was still like a sea of blue links and nine flight results. When you made a change, you had to wait for something to load.

It’s a lot better now. 20 years later, we have mobile apps, we have thousands of search results. It’s pretty easy to buy stuff now. But it still kind of sucks, because it’s overwhelming – the amount of information now.

I’m hopeful that 20 years from now, it’ll be a lot better. AI is a new technology everyone hopes will help it get there. But it still sucks. So until it’s fixed, I’m still going to be around.

Future at Booking Holdings?

Perhaps Glenn Fogel (CEO of Kayak’s parent company, Booking Holdings) will retire soon (or eventually). Most founders, after they sell the company, they’re gone in a year. But you landed in this gigantic company with a lot of opportunities. So what’s ahead for you at Booking holdings?

I have no idea. It’s never been about the job – it’s been about the product. We have this problem called online travel and we want to make it better. And we have a lot of unfinished business, so I’m delighted to still be with the company all this time.

I wish we had completed the job and actually solved it, but we haven’t. As long as Booking Holdings is willing to have me stick around and I can be helpful to our team, then I’ll be here. It has nothing to do with my role at the company.

Kayak’s Early Days

Any thoughts on the the early team that launched Kayak, and the process for launching Kayak? How you guys got started?

The alchemy of successful company is kind of hard to pin down but it starts with a good idea. A great team, sufficient capital, and then luck. And we got all those pieces put together at the right time.

So that original founding team was phenomenal: Paul English, Bill O’Donnell Paul Schwenk, Jeff Rago, but a bunch of guys. But I think the talent level now at Kayak is just as good as it was back then. If not better.

We emailed Kayak co-founder and former chief technology officer Paul English for his thoughts on Kayak after 20 years.

Paul, any thoughts on the 20th anniversary of the launch of Kayak?

Paul English: Hello from Rome. What strikes me most about the early years of Kayak is how lucky we were with the team we hired. It is not false modesty to say Kayak would never have been successful without the original team. I’m still a fan of Kayak. I use it all the time. If I were to work at Kayak again, I would turbo charge Trips . [For more about English’s career at Kayak, read this .]

Kayak vs. Google

Steve, I mentioned to somebody on my team that I’m interviewing you around the 20th anniversary of Kayak. And they said to me, ‘Look, Google is eating their lunch, and Open Table has been overtaken by Rezy and others.’ What would be your answer to that?

I’d say your colleague is misinformed. We have a very successful business, and OpenTable is a very successful business. Yeah, we’re not as big as Google is. But we never intended to be, and we’re having a lot of fun, we’re building great products.

And we’re very profitable. Not a lot of companies get to say that. I remember my first venture capital pitch when we started Kayak. Because Google existed when we started Kayak.

We said, this is what we’re going to do: We’re going to build this metaserarch site, it’s going to find travel search results from across the web, because there were no mobile apps then. We’re going to direct consumers to the place where they want to buy, and we’ll make money that way.

It’s a big enough category that we can be a very successful number two. And that’s kind of where we are. And it’s never been about being bigger than Google. It’s about being better than Google. And we are better than Google.

In what way?

If you come and do a search on Kayak as a consumer, you’re gonna get better search results than you are on Google – more options, better prices, more accuracy.

So, go to Google to snack in a lot of categories, not just travel. But go to Kayak when you’re ready to buy. And, by the way, just to shift to OpenTable. Tell your friend that OpenTable has 55,000-plus restaurants and we fill 1.7 billion seats per year. We have a very profitable business. So he’s mistaken.

Google declined to comment on whether Kayak is better than Google.

Selling to Priceline

Do you think Kayak would have done better if you had stayed independent? A lot of times brands get lost within larger companies. Do you think Kayak might have done better on its own?

Absolutely not. When when they bought us, we were in five countries and three languages. Now we’re in 60 countries and 25 languages that let us operate independently. We’ve done $700 million worth of acquisitions since then. We haven’t been distracted by public markets.

Just just take a look at Trivago or Tripadvisor? They’re independent — how well are they doing?

Being independent is overrated. We’ve been able to do anything we’ve wanted to do. Glenn and BHI (Booking Holdings Inc.) have been very supportive of our mission. And it’s been a pleasure being part of the bigger group.

Learnings From Kayak Hotels

How do you look back on your foray into Kayak Hotels at this point? [Kayak opened three Kayak-branded hotels but exited the business after around two years in late 2022.]

It was worth a try. One of the things that’s that’s a hallmark of Kayak is we’ve never shied away from being innovative and taking risks and Kayak Hotels was a big risk.

But at the time, you have to remember, Sonder and Selena and a bunch of other companies were pursuing this space. And so we thought we’d take a sniff, too.

And what we quickly learned is there’s a reason OpenTable doesn’t have restaurants, there’s a reason Kayak doesn’t have hotels. Because the actual guest experience involves a lot more than just great technology. And as we got into it — everything we do at Kayak is test, learn and then scale — Kayak Hotels never got past the learn scales. We quickly learned it’s not a great business to be in.

When you say OpenTable doesn’t have restaurants do you mean OpenTable doesn’t own restaurants?

OpenTable doesn’t operate restaurants. Its sweet-spot is software. And we learned that Kayak’s sweet-spot is software, as well.

Was OpenTable a Good Deal?

Do you think it was a mistake for Booking to buy OpenTable? Because at the time, everybody was talking about the synergy between travel and dining? It seems logical, but it hasn’t really worked out like that.

OpenTable was a great acquisition. It’s a phenomenal company. It hasn’t had the synergies that we had hoped with with Booking.com because dining and accommodations are fundamentally different. Most dining is local. It’s not travelers. You don’t use the Booking.com app to book a restaurant. You use the OpenTable app.

It’s been an accretive acquisition, let’s leave it at that. And, personally, I wish they hadn’t paid more for OpenTable [$2.6 billion in 2014] than they paid for Kayak [$2.1 billion in 2013] because Kayak’s a more profitable company. But it is what it is.

Accomplishments and Regrets

What would you say would be the three big accomplishments at Kayak and OpenTable over the last year? 

On the Kayak side, we’ve always done the consumer site and meta really well. Since 2021, we’ve been working on Kayak Hotels, which didn’t pan out, but there’s also Kayak for Business.

I think Kayak for Business now is actually on a great track. So we’ve got three big enterprise clients: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Tripadvisor, and Diageo. And we’ve got more coming. And then we’ve got 30,000 small accounts that have self signed up and are using the site.

Are you doing managed travel?

Businesses can use us to see where all their employees are traveling. You can upload your own business travel policy and negotiated rates. And then the coolest thing is no expense reports need to be filed and no credit card that needs to be used.

You don’t need your own personal credit card; we have a virtual credit card. And then it’s direct billing via the blockchain right back to like American Airlines, for example. So they save the 2% processing charge on on credit cards.

And how’s the blockchain used?

So that’s the ledger for where a transaction happens and the last person to touch it. So if you’re a traveler, and you book on Kayak, you may [actually] be booking on AA.com. And if you use a corporate travel agency to change the itinerary that gets fed into the blockchain. There’s a digital ledger.

So any contact point knows exactly what’s happened throughout the the customers journey. It’s pretty cool stuff.

What are some of your biggest regrets about Kayak and some of the things that you’re most proud of about Kayak?

We had the opportunity to buy 25% of Uber early on, and we did not do that. Which is a pretty big regret. I think we might have sold a little too early. I’m glad we sold. But that’s turned out OK, as well.

And then an early days thing was we started the website with Adobe Flash? We shouldn’t have done that. That cost us about a year of development work.

But overall, we’ve been successful the last 20 years, I don’t have a lot of regrets. We’ve been extremely fortunate. We’ve had a great team, and had a great run. And I expect the next 20 years could be as good, if not better.

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Kayak Just Named This 'Surprising' U.S. City the Most Popular Destination for Summer Travel

No. 1 on the list might surprise you.

Evie Carrick is a writer and editor who’s lived in five countries and visited well over 50. She now splits her time between Colorado and Paris, ensuring she doesn't have to live without skiing or L'As du Fallafel.

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If you’re not already dreaming up your summer vacation plans , you should be, with Kayak reporting that flight prices are down this summer. Domestic fares within the U.S. have decreased 13 percent , giving travelers some much-needed relief from the sky-high prices of last summer .

But where is everyone headed? Kayak has been evaluating what destinations have had the highest search volume for travel between May 24 and Sept. 3. The results provide a little insight into where people are traveling domestically this summer, with 10 major U.S. cities making the list.

“These are our most-searched-for destinations. So out of billions of annual searches, travelers are turning to these places over and over again,” the Kayak report notes. 

At the top of the popular domestic destination list is Seattle, which Kayak says is “surprising” based on past results. That said, those in the know , are well aware that the cool, notoriously rainy city shines in the summer. Between May and September, the number of rainy days drops significantly, and the temperature hovers around 70 degrees — arguably the ideal summer temperature. The average cost for summer tickets to Seattle is $455, making it the second most expensive destination on the list.

Following Seattle on the list is Las Vegas — a mainstay in the popular destination arena — with an average flight cost of $396. Orlando came in at No. 3 with an average summer flight price of  $328. The most expensive summer destination, Honolulu , came in at No. 4 with an average summer flight price of $780.

Most of the other major U.S. cities were represented, including New York City, Miami, Chicago, and Los Angeles. But what surprised Kayak’s data team was the presence of historically less popular “wild card cities” on the list, specifically Denver (No. 6) and Boston (No. 8). Summer flights to Denver average $346, while flights to Boston average $391 this summer. 

Below is a full rundown of the most popular summer destinations in the U.S., according to summer flight searches on Kayak: 1. Seattle Average summer flight price: $455 

2. Las Vegas Average summer flight price: $396

3. Orlando  Average summer flight price: $328

4. Honolulu Average summer flight price: $780 

5. New York City Average summer flight price: $378 6. Denver Average summer flight price: $346  7. Los Angeles Average summer flight price: $396

8. Boston Average summer flight price: $391

9. Miami Average summer flight price: $375  10. Chicago Average summer flight price: $361

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Watery, Peaceful, Wild: The Call of the Mangroves

On Curaçao, visitors can explore the trees’ habitat, where colorful birds roost on tangled branches and trunks, and small paths through the greenery beckon.

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By Elisabeth Goodridge

Elisabeth Goodridge is the deputy editor for travel at The New York Times.

• May 8, 2024

It was a sunny afternoon in February at the height of the high season on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, but my partner, Aaren, and I were far from lounging on a white-sand beach, snorkeling over a coral reef or strolling among the Easter-egg-colored buildings of Willemstad, Curaçao’s capital and a UNESCO World Heritage site — typical activities for travelers to this former Dutch colony.

Instead, on a kayak tour with Serlon St Jago, a guide from the Curaçao Rif Mangrove Park , we were learning about the country’s mangrove restoration, and the vital role mangrove habitats play in coastal resilience, protection for marine and bird species, and fighting the effects of climate change.

No poisonous snakes, alligators or large predators live on Curaçao, Mr. St Jago said, reassuring information as we paddled toward a forbidding wall of mangroves lining Piscadera Bay. Up close, the trees were magnificent and cheerful. Colorful birds roosted on tangled branches and trunks, and small paths under the green and occasionally yellow leaves beckoned us to explore. With our kayaks beached, Mr. St Jago pointed out fiddler crabs and mussels, and described differences of the local mangrove species — the red, white and black — and how they adapted to live and propagate where water meets land.

“There’s so much life here,” he said with infectious enthusiasm.

We were the only tourists on the water, but getting more visitors like us interested in mangroves, perhaps even persuading them to replant some of the vital trees themselves, has been a priority of scientists, activists, park rangers and tourism operators on Curaçao in recent years.

The island isn’t alone in its efforts: Similar mangrove-focused work has started around the world, in places like Indonesia , Australia , Belize and Florida , as fragile destinations balance tourism’s growth with the conservation — and restoration — of the natural resources that captivate visitors.

“Coral reefs get all the attention. But mangroves are probably a lot more important,” said Gabby Ahmadia , a vice president with the oceans program at the World Wildlife Fund who oversees the organization’s mangrove science and restoration programs. “My favorite analogy about mangroves is that they are Swiss Army knives, because they do provide so many different benefits and they can do so many different things.”

Though these forests are one degree of separation from the sights and the activities that traditionally draw visitors to the ocean, changing perceptions might be hard. To protect the environment, mangrove kayak tours can be — as are most snorkel, fishing and bird-watching tours offered in other destinations — limited by number, and visitors must be interested in the first place. With their summer reads and beach toys, family traditions and limited vacation days, most tourists might simply agree with the old saying “Life is better at the beach.”

A foundation of life

The twisty branches, trunks and distinctive aboveground roots of mangroves are a stark, complex repudiation of how a child’s drawing portrays a common tree. The roots can arch up, pop up spikelike from the water or form stilts above and under the surface. Adapted to oxygen-poor soil, high salinity and the ebb and flow of an intertidal zone, coastal mangroves thrive where other trees and shrubs would perish. Unless they are yellow, the leaves are green, and some, if you lick them, taste salty.

Mangrove forests can appear impenetrable, muddy, smelly and swampy. For centuries, they have been cleared for firewood, farmland, urban development, aquaculture and, yes, tourism. On Curaçao, mangroves are now found on only 0.012 percent of the island. Globally, more than half of the mangrove forests have been cut down or otherwise destroyed in the past 50 years. Deforestation has slowed — but not stopped — in recent years, and rising sea levels and increased storm activity have done further damage.

But coastal mangroves — there are some 60 species worldwide — are the foundation of life above and below the water. With intricate root systems, they act as nurseries for juvenile fish and other marine life. Mangrove branches and trunks make safe feeding and nesting sites for yellow warblers , tricolored herons and other bird species, reptiles like iguanas, and insects aplenty.

Those strongly anchored roots also protect from flooding, erosion and tidal surges by slowing down seawater and trapping dirt and debris. More crucially, mangrove forests are extraordinary for decreasing the effects of global warming, by absorbing and storing carbon annually at a rate 10 times as great as tropical rainforests. Mangroves, along with other coastal wetlands, “sequester enough carbon each year to offset the burning of over one billion barrels of oil,” according to the Nature Conservancy .

Surreptitious beginnings

Ryan de Jongh, a 53-year-old Curaçao native, activist and tour guide, is the living embodiment of regenerative tourism. He’s an important reason we encountered a lush, thriving ecosystem in Piscadera Bay, and demonstrates how one person can make a difference.

Mr. de Jongh grew up swimming in the bay and watched the area’s mangroves being cleared for fuel and construction. In 2006, he surreptitiously planted the first mangrove tree — a single seedling can mature in around 15 years and lead to an entire thicket — and now, he said, more than 100,000 trees are growing. He made similarly stealthy plantings at other inlets and bays, making himself a local hero in the process.

Mr. de Jongh, who gives kayak tours himself , now works on widespread government-sanctioned restoration projects.

His aim is to eventually plant 1.3 million trees on the island. “I have to transform literally a desert back to green,” he said.

The interior of Curaçao certainly looks like a desert, with a dry, dusty landscape of cactus and other succulents. Along with its closest island neighbors, Aruba and Bonaire, Curaçao is outside the Caribbean’s hurricane belt and receives minimal rainfall. People on the island drink desalinated seawater.

The trade winds bring cooler temperatures. In the 16th century, they also brought Europeans who enslaved and deported the Indigenous population and turned Curaçao into a slaving port. The colonists also planted oranges, sugar cane and other nonnative species, with varying degrees of success, and developed giant salt pans for export, but it was the construction of an oil refinery in 1918 and growing tourism that finally brought widespread jobs. The refinery shut down in 2019 — nine years after Curaçao voted to become a semiautonomous nation from the Netherlands — an event that only emphasized tourism’s importance for Curaçao’s economy. Last year, the island, only 40 miles long, welcomed 1.3 million visitors .

Aaren and I gladly did our part to support the economy: In Willemstad, that meant eating at Plasa Bieu , the Old Market, where individual vendors cook and sell local cuisine. We fought with each other over the fried wahoo and an arepa di pampuna — pumpkin pancake — but we were warned off the cactus soup. “I live here,” said another diner, “and I don’t even eat that.” We also snapped photos, like so many other visitors, while crossing the floating Queen Emma Bridge , and watched it open and close for marine traffic.

We waited in an hourlong, locals-heavy line at De Visserij Piscadera Seafood restaurant (“slaying and filleting” since 2017), where diners choose and purchase their fish fillets before sitting down; we drank oregano punch for the first time (think mint ice tea, but oregano and oh so refreshingly delicious); and we inhaled grilled shrimp and raw fresh tuna.

Further north, we ate “williburgers” — goat burgers — at Marfa’s GoodHangout in Sint Willibrordus, which overlooks an old salt pan that, sadly, the resident flamingoes absented that day, and delighted upon coming across a coral nursery while scuba diving right off the jam-packed Kokomo Beach.

Coral reefs are crucial to Curaçao’s tourism and fishing industries and valued at more than $445 million annually, according to a 2016 economic assessment published by the nonprofit Waitt Institute. And coral reefs, which support roughly 25 percent of all marine life, are enduring cataclysmic bleaching and disease brought on or compounded by climate change.

In the last 10 years, scientists have better understood the symbiosis between coral reefs and mangroves: They don’t need each other to exist, but proximity brings benefits to both ecosystems.

“Working in this field of conservation, you might come in from one entry point and then you realize everything is connected,” said Dr. Ahmadia of the W.W.F. “We can work on coral reefs, but we should be thinking about sea grass beds and mangroves, because they are all really connected. And then of course, they are connected to the human environment.”

One morning, Aaren and I walked through the 30-acre Curaçao Rif Mangrove Park , a short stroll from the center of Willemstad and a shorter one from the island’s cruise ship terminal. Open since 2022, the park offers guided and audio tours, elevated boardwalks, programs for local schoolchildren and a tiered entrance-fee system (guilders and U.S. dollars accepted) for residents and overseas visitors. Some 17,766 people came in 2023, an increase of 14,687 from 2022.

Manfred van Veghel is the new director of the Caribbean Research and Management of Biodiversity Foundation, which oversees the mangrove park and five other national parks. Working with the government of Curaçao, local travel operators and activists like Mr. de Jongh, Dr. van Veghel aims to expand park access, construct an elevated bridge and add a visitor center, among other goals. The efforts are part of his desire to transform Curaçao into more of a nature-based tourist destination.

“We had a record last year and they are pushing to get more,” Dr. van Veghel said of Curaçao’s number of annual visitors. Yet, he said, the beaches are getting full. “So we need to get activities other than going to the beach — and the mangrove park is an excellent activity.”

Mark Spalding is a senior marine scientist with the Nature Conservancy and lead scientist of the Mapping Ocean Wealth initiative , an online tool that applies economic value to coastal ecosystems.

Dr. Spalding said a draw of mangrove activities, like boating and hiking, is that “without having to trek through the Amazon for hours and hours, you can get that sense of wilderness and experience, and also the peace and tranquillity very quickly and very easily.”

“It might only be two hours of your entire holiday,” he said, “but it’s the thing you take home with you — the story you tell.”

Follow New York Times Travel on Instagram and sign up for our weekly Travel Dispatch newsletter to get expert tips on traveling smarter and inspiration for your next vacation. Dreaming up a future getaway or just armchair traveling? Check out our 52 Places to Go in 2024 .

An earlier version of this story misidentified an nongovernmental organization. It is the World Wildlife Fund, not World Wildlife Federation.

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Elisabeth is the deputy editor for the Travel Desk at The New York Times. More about Elisabeth Goodridge

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