Sharing the tricks and tools of better travel
The names are in! Just to recap, here are the prizes, along with the two winners of each prize. Thanks for playing! The first winner of two Hipmunk baggage tags is #6, twitter follower @TravelSummary, followed by Facebook fan Brian Duncan. A Hipmunk T-shirt went to @yhcg1333 and @BorazHershkovich. @yhcg1333 replied first and asked for a … [Read more...]
Don't forget, you have less than 36 hours to enter my Hipmunk swag giveaway, ending Friday night. You're allowed to enter more than once, so do it again and again to get your entries in if there's something that really catches your eye. :) There are six prizes: two each of some cute Hipmunk bag tags, Hipmunk T-shirts, and Hipmunk stickers for … [Read more...]
Today I'm going to show you the true power of the ITA Fare Matrix search engine. Some of this routing language has been incorporated into Hipmunk, although it's not widely publicized. (Read my reviews to learn more; there are links in yesterday's Hipmunk Giveaway post.) Yesterday I introduced how to use ITA for a basic round trip flight from … [Read more...]
A week ago I was at the Hipmunk offices in San Francisco and had a very pleasant chat with co-founder and CEO Adam Goldstein. We talked about Hipmunk's strategy of continuing to release new updates to their site as they're developed--trying to be more innovative than their competition and releasing those updates immediately rather than waiting for … [Read more...]
I'm a big fan of Hipmunk. I've reviewed it multiple times in the past (see links at the bottom) and even give it free advertising on my sidebar. I still use ITA as my go-to source for flight information. Sorry, it's just much more powerful. But Hipmunk's flight search is a great alternative for those who struggle to wrap their heads around ITA's … [Read more...]
