traveling online

Well, I tried to plan a trip to New Mexico online and it was relatively easy and painless. I was expecting more hassle, more confusion, and it being more expensive. The prices for the sites that I went to were relatively the same and I could even rent a car! Before I would think that you would definetly need a travel agent to do this in the 'old' days. Someone to call the airline, arrange a flight, call the hotel and make reservations, call the car rental and reserve a car with a specific model, make, and year. But now I just say that I want a hotel+airline+car package and BAM! There it is! *sighs* The internet is a great thing. lol. Now the average person can make travel plans which would probably make it so that more people make the effort to travel nowadays. And the ratings that go with the hotels and the cars make it so that competition between them will probably heat up since they are under constant scrutiny. Also the new option of knowing what real people think of the places adds a new twist to how people make decisions. If a bunch of people say that a 3 star hotel had bad service and lumpy beds then I would probably listen to the people and not the mediocre rating.

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. ~Dave Barry

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~Lynetta