{"id":1157,"date":"2010-02-08T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/?page_id=1157"},"modified":"2013-02-10T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T21:40:39","slug":"trax-travel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/1-2\/trax-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Trax Travel Reviews | Trax.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 0.83em;\"><em><span style=\"color: #cc091c;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Update May 2010<\/span>: Trax.com is not currently\u00a0offering airfare, we recommend searching <\/span><span style=\"color: #cc091c;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-3040923-10820358\">CheapFlights.com<\/a><\/span><span> instead.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Travel search engine for flights, hotels, and rental cars<\/li>\n<li>Unbiased by advertiser interests<\/li>\n<li>Simultaneously searches and organizes real-time prices from over 200 travel sites<\/li>\n<li>Simple and easy to use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Our Editor&#8217;s Review<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>The Trax travel site is really simple, just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-3040923-10820358\">CheapFlights.co<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-3040923-10820358\">m<\/a> or Travelzoo.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, at face value, it seems to be an exact replica.\u00a0\u00a0 We decided to put Trax to the test, in a head-to-head competition with\u00a0Kayak Travel to see which site came up with the best flight prices.\u00a0 Using the same travel dates (30 days in advance), we compared flight pricing results of both sites.\u00a0 Our consensus?\u00a0 After doing at least 15 comparison tests, we found that\u00a0Kayak travel is quicker.\u00a0\u00a0 However, Trax came up with the cheapest prices overall, but not by a landslide.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In one instance their listed flight was $19 lower than Kayak&#8217;s price.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of note, Kayak&#8217;s prices never beat the prices we found on Trax.com.Hotel searching is a bit more subjective.\u00a0 With hotels, we believe that often times you get what you pay for!\u00a0 If cheap is what you are looking for, Trax.com will automatically pull up the cheapest hotel your destination city.\u00a0 On the other hand, Kayak travel will automatically filter the results by &#8220;most popular&#8221; hotels, which may be more expensive but have good hotel reviews. We love that both Trax and\u00a0Kayak Travel pull up hotels near the city-center, because some travel search engines pull up hotels in the outskirts of town that are cheaper but a long distance from the city.\u00a0 Overall, if we had to choose, Trax is our first choice to compare flight prices.\u00a0 Trax searches some airfare sites that most have never heard of, thereby granting to best results. \u00a0As for hotels, we may check\u00a0Kayak travel first because their hotel search seems more comprehensive.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Trax.com Coupons &amp; Deals<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Trax Travel does not have coupon codes because they are simply a search engine.\u00a0 Get airfare deals and coupon codes from other travel sites <a href=\"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/topics\/airfare\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>On behalf of all of us at Trax, I\u2019d like to thank you for your thoughtful and fair review of our website and commend you on your commitment to unbiased reviews of travel websites. Thank you for highlighting that we find lower prices and search more sources, as we pride ourselves on providing these unbiased search results, unlike many other sites. We truly value feedback from professionals like yourself and are eager to hear your thoughts on our future site development. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Best wishes, Evvie Meier at Trax.com<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the post above are \u201caffiliate links.\u201d This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. 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Travel search engine for flights, hotels, and rental cars Unbiased by advertiser interests Simultaneously searches and organizes real-time prices from over 200 travel sites Simple and easy to use Our Editor&#8217;s Review The Trax travel site is really simple, just like CheapFlights.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":525,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1157","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1157\/revisions\/1160"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}