Booking an Online Vacation

Objective – Students will be able to use various internet sources to find the best deals on a vacation of their choice.

Introduction – Everyone loves and needs a good vacation every once in awhile. As you look forward to graduating high school, you may need to plan your trip to senior week for you and your friends.  Some of you may be looking forward to marriage and need to plan a honeymoon.  Some of you may just want a quick weekend getaway. 

The internet is full of great deals and options for traveling.  Whether you are going to Philadelphia for a night, going on a tropical cruise for a week or traveling abroad, you can obtain excellent deals on the internet without going through a travel agent and without having to leave the comfort of your own home. 

This activity is to get you ready for the “real world”.  These are skills you will need to know in the future whether it be for business travel or for a family vacation. 

Activity -  Check out some of these sites on the WWW  that will get you ready to go on a vacation.  You need to choose a place that you would like to travel to.  Some of these sites will give you an idea of some places to go.  Make sure you check out more than one site to see who is giving the best deals.  We aren’t made of money, you know!

Travelocity.com – this link will help you with airfare, rental cars and hotels

http://www.site59.com/ - this is a great site that will give you last minute getaways at really good prices

 http://www.travelzoo.com/top20 – this site will give you 20 options of the best deals in travel going on this week, including airfare, hotels, rental cars, and all-inclusive packages

http://aolsvc.travel.aol.com/travel/air/air0.jsp  - this site will give you an option to find the lowest airfare to your destination city

hotels.com – this site boasts the best prices, best places, guaranteed.  Offers hotels, suites, vacation packages, deals and specials

http://www.cheaptickets.com/trs/cheaptickets/home/index_01.xsl  - flights, hotels, cars, cruises, last minute trips.

These are all rental car sites.  Check them out and see who has the best prices.

Thrifty.com

Budget.com

www.hertz.com

http://www.avis.com/AvisWeb/home/AvisHome

Assignment -  Plan a trip for 2 to anywhere in the world you prefer.  It can be a realistic vacation that you may actually go on one day or it can be as exotic and fun as you want.  It can be your dream vacation. It needs to be planned for specific days (however long you want your vacation to be).  You need to come up with airfare prices to your destination out of Baltimore Washington, Dulles or Philadelphia airports (roundtrip).  You need to come up with the hotel name and  price for the length of your stay.  You also need “to book” a rental car for the time that you will be away, including the type of car, where you are renting it and prices.  Also, please show that you were a comparison shopper.  Take notes of the different prices you found on different sites. 

Using a word document, type out the itinerary, or travel plans, of your dream vacation.  Write down the dates, the airline, the flight numbers, times of departures and arrivals, the hotel you will be staying at, and any other information you wish to include such as activities you will be participating in on your vacation. 

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