Popularity
Hotwire is one of the newer travel booking
sites to hit the scene. In a short amount
of time it has become one of the heavy
hitters on the web. It now clocks in with a
Google pagerank of 8 and according to
Alexa it is the 2,671st most visited site on
the net.
Features
Hotwire contains all the normal booking
options commonly available such as flight,
hotel, car rental and cruise reservations.
They have an array of vacation packages
as well but do not have a clear activities
section link on their front page. This
feature however is somewhat included in
their CoolExtras area. Their CoolExtra
section has special links dedicated to
Enterntainment (activities), Dining and
Shopping. This information is only available
to its registered members but registration
is free.
Prices
On their Deals & Destinations page you
can find nice long list of last-minute flight
deals for both this weekend and the next.
Some of their prices include flights from
Chicago to Los Angeles at $239 and a
flight from Boston to Cancun for only
$320. Towards the bottom of the Deals &
Destinations page you will find a Travel
Value Index link. Click it and you will be
presented with trips that contain free
tours and activities such as a Coors
Brewery Tour in Denver and a Trolley Tour
in Greenville, South Carolina. Some of their
package vacation offers (accessed by
way of their front page) include a
Jamaican vacation package for $803 which
includes 5 nights in a 4 star hotel and
airfare.
Overall Rating
Hotwire receives an overall rating of 8 for
its abundance of features and reasonable
prices. Hotwire is another website that is
slowly moving up the food chain and will
soon top the list with its special booking
options and exclusive free tours and
activities packages.