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Get what you paid for: Travel websites that cut the risk

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    First class advice from Kendra Thornton

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He's so much it is now time for your first class travel well a lot of us -- -- a planning a vacation Harden really time consuming.

And the last thing that anybody wants deal with as a scam or something.

Not being really sold as advertised -- here with three web sites to help take the risk got a vacation planning.

Kendra Norton good morning can drag -- why so you can spend a lot of time doing travel -- say there's a new website that helps us out with that.

Yes the person next great place this is great it's -- like a 21 century travel planning service what's great is it takes.

The broad selection and an ease of online booking he'll get from that the major -- travel site.

But it's layering in this high touch caring and service that really has been lost with the Internet that you would have -- with the traditional travel agent.

So the way it works -- you pay 500 dollars and you become a member -- an annual fee.

And for that they will plant an unlimited number of vacations for you too many destinations are adding more -- -- just -- this summer.

And they're adding more destinations all the time -- -- really trying to cater to families are large groups that need answers based on -- -- cram into a couple hotel grounds.

So they've negotiated condos.

I'm single family homes a lot of their inventory would not sign on a major -- traveled I thirty destinations.

-- destinations for them but you gotta pay the 500 bucks.

Okay for those who don't want to spend the money tell us about this oyster dot com.

Police are not come as great this is really like the new kind of hotel -- law and what's great is of course there.

To cut -- -- and other sites out there that we'll tell you you know hotel reviews but you don't know if maybe someone else's opinion is consistent with yours.

-- what oysters trying to do it's really provide one consistent voice for hotel reviews they are sending their own experts down to every hotel that they less.

They're taking their own photos the writing their own reviews.

So that you can really get an expert opinion time.

You know what really is the bathroom looking like with the view -- the balcony -- with the exercise -- look like -- -- are paid professionals who work Forrester dot -- you know it's not a friend of the hotel and they are not using any of the information from the hotels whatsoever sell their -- -- OK so what is this is -- hit -- dot com -- dot com this is a great insight for booking -- or hotels and what's -- about -- -- is it really gives you a very fast easy check -- experience.

They are sacrificing ad revenue in order to give you a better user experience if you get on they have this great -- that makes it very easy to search for flights across your time you can sort of course by price how many number of stocks.

Stops with the very easy user experience and -- in the same hotels as well as showing hotels on a Google map and you can sort by you know show me hotels in the best dining area over the past nightlife says.

And it's a real unique approach but -- really.

Growing fast I think a lot of people of this Kendra thank you so much you know if you're spending the time to travel you want it to be right -- an average American to thank you so much we'll talk again.

-- let's head back over to.

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