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Making Vacation Plans Over the 'Net?

Posted by Cliff on from the better-than-letting-your-fingers-do-all-the-walking dept.

rice_burners_suck asks: "For some reason beyond my comprehension, a whole bunch of family members are coming in to visit over the next month. The busiest weekend will take place when I'll have six guests to entertain, and I don't know where I'll take them or stay with them. I'd like to have a good time without breaking the piggy bank. Where, on the Internet, can I find good vacation places and compute a budget? I'm thinking of a service similar to AAA, but online. If something like this doesn't exist, how could I go about implementing one myself?"

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  1. assignment? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
    "If something like this doesn't exist, how could I go about implementing one myself?"


    ...and there it comes. So subtle, yet so obvious once you've seen it. I can hear the rest of you think "huh?", but let me just ask one question to the submitter: Do you need this service because you are having guests over? And if so, why would you implement your own such system... if it weren't in fact an assignment, either in college or given to you by your boss!
  2. Travelocity by Sentry21 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Travelocity is probably the only real suggestion I can give you. It's basically an online travel agent. They do flights, hotels, car rentals, trains, and vacation packages (as I recall). Check them out, even if you're Canadian - they rock, comparatively speaking.

    Or you could - and I'm going to be radical here - leave your house (*gasp*) and go and actually talk to a real travel agent. They'd know more about the local attractions, as well as other nearby places you could take them too.

    Seriously, the internet is not the answer to everything. Sometimes you have to go out into the big room with the green floor and the ceiling that's sometimes blue with a yellow heat lamp and sometimes black with little white status LEDs, and actually use more than twenty muscles for once.

    --Dan