CheapTickets
Is This Your Business?Author: Kalicia Bateman
Founded in Hawaii in 1986, CheapTickets is a subsidiary holding of Orbitz. The company focuses on the leisure industry and offers airline tickets, hotel bookings, car rentals, and more.
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The Good
- Information from Several Travel Sites
- Travel Accommodations
- Best Price Guarantee
- Rewards Program
Information From Several Travel Sites
In conjunction with Orbitz, CheapTickets provides a resource for frequent travelers that collects pricing information from a number of traveling booking sites. Once a traveler inputs generic travel information, they will be able to sort through thousands of results to find the perfect fit at the destination of their choice.
Travel Accommodations
CheapTickets is known for its ability to find discounted airfare, but customers can also book a number of other affordable travel accommodations using its platform, including the following:
- Hotels
- Car rentals
- Cruises
- Activities
- Bundles
Best Price Guarantee
To ensure that its customers receive the lowest available price, CheapTickets offers a best price guarantee. If a customer finds a lower price for the same accommodation on another site, CheapTickets will match it.
Rewards Program
To incentivize consumers to use its products and services, CheapTickets offers a rewards program called CheapCash, which is straightforward and easy to use. CheapCash can help travelers save on hotels and motels.
The Bad
- Reward Limitations
- Lack of Advanced Search Options
Reward Limitations
While it's nice that the company offers a rewards program, CheapTickets' CheapCash program only works with hotels. Further, CheapCash must be used within 30 days, which doesn't give customers much of a chance to accumulate it and build it up.
Lack of Advanced Search Options
The only advanced search option CheapTickets provides at this time is affiliated with the flight booking portion of its site. Travelers can set flight specifications such as economy/coach, business, premium economy, or first class. However, there are no other advanced search filters at this time.
The Bottom Line
CheapTickets is a good resource for those looking for deals on travel accommodations. The company pulls information from several different travel sites and allows customers to book flights, hotels, rental cars, cruises, and vacation bundles using its platform.
Additionally, CheapTickets offers a best price guarantee and a rewards program. However, there are some limitations to the company's rewards program and its advanced search options are lacking.
