Expedia Incorporated

Florida's case against tax dodgers Expedia, Orbitz and other online-travel companies just got a lot easier. Recently released documents from a court case in Georgia help Florida make its case by showing that the companies knew as far back as 2003 that...

A recent ad directed to the industry -- and maybe consumers, as well -- asks whether travelers are better off trusting hotel reviews compiled by "expert travel writers" or by ordinary travelers who may not have a clue about evaluating hotels. The ad was...

Although he sometimes feels "a little dishonest" about it, Jeremy Reed says he doesn't have much choice: With seven children, from an infant to a teenager, and on a limited budget, he often reserves only one hotel room when he's on vacation. A big room....

IT'S still bargain season in Argentina, judging from the reports I've received from returning travelers. Despite the country's ongoing economic recovery, good deals abound. The peso continues to trade at three to the dollar (versus a rate of one to the...

Question: One month before departure on our 23rd Princess cruise, my husband was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and rushed to the hospital for the first of three monthlong chemotherapy treatments. We didn't buy travel insurance because of a...

BEFORE booking my airplane ticket, I carefully researched the availability of a hotel room in Barth, a small town on the Baltic Sea in Germany. In early November, the Ringhotel Speicher, the only hotel in this town of 10,000, had plenty of rooms when I...

HERE'S a puzzlement: Can every travel website really offer the lowest price for your hotel or airfare? That's what many guarantee. They can do that partly because rates and fares don't differ much from site to site. The reason for this lies with pricing...

YOU arrive at the airport the day before Thanksgiving. You've made all your plane, hotel and car-rental reservations online. You're feeling mighty smug knowing you have saved your family a bundle by doing it all yourself. You turn to pull into your...

EARLY this month, some astute travelers noticed that Expedia was selling hotel rooms at two Hiltons in Japan for the fire-sale price of less than $4 per night. What began as a simple error in the conversion of yen into U.S. dollars quickly snowballed...

If you haven't Googled a flight itinerary recently, you should try it. Google's Flight Search, the fledgling search engine that lets you find a ticket and book it directly through an airline, is getting better. Much better. In recent weeks, the new...

You may have to take a trip over the holidays, and you may be wondering about the best way to get there. So were we. So we came up with a hypothetical, fairly typical round trip: Fort Lauderdale to Chicago, leaving Dec. 22, and returning to Fort...

Many of you turn to "opaque" online agencies to get the very best available hotel deals. As long as you can specify the hotel's quality range and general location, if the discount is big enough, you're willing to accept the agency' selection of an...