Expedia.com is fairly simple to use for booking flights along with hotel rooms. You can book flights to multiple destinations all at once, which I imagine would be good for someone who is traveling across Europe or the like. Being able to book hotels on the same site you book your flight also seems like it would simplify the whole travel-planning process. I for one have no exprience booking flights, as I live in Rochester and never need to book flights home.
A nice thing I noticed was that on the leftside of Expedia, during the booking process, there is a menu that allows you to swiftly change things like departing/arrival dates and times, airports in the area, airline, class and number of travelers. If you are booking a hotel, you can change the hotel dates from this menu, as well. I pretended to book a flight to Japan. Originally I had the hotel date set to be the same as my departure day, but because of the time-zone change, I needed to book the hotel arrival for the following day. Expedia indicated to me that the arrival day was "+1 day". I wanted to just change the hotel arrival date accordingly. At first I was not sure I could do so without going back to my original search, then I noticed the side menu allowed me to do so.
The side menu, however, does not allow you to completely change your starting point or destination. It only allows you to change which "near by" airport you'd like to depart from or arrive at. If you want to enter new daparture/arrival locations, you have to start a new search.
I also liked how when entering dates, Expedia pops up a little calendar from which you select a date. This makes it incredibly easy to enter dates. The text box for the date is still present, so you can opt to just type in the date, as well.
~Emily V.
A nice thing I noticed was that on the leftside of Expedia, during the booking process, there is a menu that allows you to swiftly change things like departing/arrival dates and times, airports in the area, airline, class and number of travelers. If you are booking a hotel, you can change the hotel dates from this menu, as well. I pretended to book a flight to Japan. Originally I had the hotel date set to be the same as my departure day, but because of the time-zone change, I needed to book the hotel arrival for the following day. Expedia indicated to me that the arrival day was "+1 day". I wanted to just change the hotel arrival date accordingly. At first I was not sure I could do so without going back to my original search, then I noticed the side menu allowed me to do so.
The side menu, however, does not allow you to completely change your starting point or destination. It only allows you to change which "near by" airport you'd like to depart from or arrive at. If you want to enter new daparture/arrival locations, you have to start a new search.
I also liked how when entering dates, Expedia pops up a little calendar from which you select a date. This makes it incredibly easy to enter dates. The text box for the date is still present, so you can opt to just type in the date, as well.
~Emily V.
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