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Orbitz.com Highlights |
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"Deal Detector" allows you to set your own price for your vacation. Orbitz.com will email you if they meet or beat your price for airfare or hotels.
Free "Orbitz TLC Traveler Update". An online tool that you can use to exchange up-to-the-minute facts with other travelers about travel conditions, along with FAA postings, right from your cell phone. You can exchange information, such as how long the security line is, or where the good parking is located at the airport.
Easily find cheap airfare with the Orbitz Multi-City Air Tab.
24 hour live customer support.
Eco-Friendly Vacations Home Page.
Catagorized Travel Blog: The Orbitz Travel Blog: Insider Tips & Expertise. 
Orbitz.com Hotel Low Price Guarantee .
Orbitz TLC Insider Podcasts, which are destination guides that you can listen to from your computer or download on your iPod.
Lists of top family travel destinations and activities. Family Travel: Hotels and Packages. |
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The Small Print* |
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$25 Orbitz fee to cancel a hotel booked with a "Orbitz Hotel Low Price Guarantee", and $50 Orbitz fee to cancel a package (airfare is not refunded).
All cancellations on the Orbitz.com travel site must take place more than 24 hours prior beginning of trip.
Flights are not refundable, but you may be able to obtain a credit and this varies per airline.
Each airline ticket carries a non-refundable Orbitz fee of $4.99 to $11.99 USD. The fee varies based on airfare, carrier, destination and other factors.
In lieu of online service fees, Orbitz will add a $25.00 USD (non-refundable) fee to each air ticket purchased by phone. On changes to previously issued tickets that require new tickets to be issued, a $30.00 service fee will be charged by Orbitz.com.
A refund from Orbitz can take about 60-90 days.
As always: Most airlines charge a fee of approximately $100-$400 per passenger for changes, or to reuse your ticket, plus any applicable increase in the fare. This fee goes to the airline, and not this travel site. This fee would apply no matter where you book your flight.
* Based solely on research done by TravelSiteCritic.com, these figures may be inaccurate and are subject to change. Double check before you buy!
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The Good |
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Your Guide to Food & Wine Vacations
at Orbitz.com". This is one of the great benefits of a large travel site, like Orbitz.com
The Insider Podcasts are pretty awesome too. Currently, you can choose from about 16 major cites, but we hope they add more. They will tell you "how to glide past the bouncer at the hottest industry night in Vegas (without tipping)", where to find a "Seattle hangout where beer is often cheaper than water", and "the only place on earth to taste Twinkie Tiramisu". Check this out before you hit your destination! |
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The Bad |
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The Orbitz.com "Beach Finder" was a little odd. It is an interactive page where you get to select what you like to do, ect., and then it is supposed to spit out the perfect beach hotels for you. Well, we specified on the first page that we were a "FAMILY WITH CHILDREN", then it brought up a second page for "interests" (of which included such family-friendly activities as gambling)!? We chose SHOPPING, DINING, and CULTURE. Finally, it asked us what our "hotel preferences" were, among which we found "Adult Only".....huh?
As always: If you book with ANY online travel site, make sure to confirm your reservation directly with the hotel and airlines!
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