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" Super Fly Plane travel totally sucks \u2014 unless you can stretch out in a fab seat and gloat over what a great deal you got. 1. When it comes to finding deals on plane tickets to your dream destination, bing.com (formerly farecast.com) is your best bet. It predicts whether fares are rising or dropping on popular flights, and also lets you track airfares. Just enter in your destination and the dates you&amp;#039;d like to travel, and they&amp;#039;ll send you an e-mail whenever prices fall.  2. Then book the tickets using kayak.com, which offers a more complete selection of tickets than pretty much any other travel search engine. When you click on a flight, it redirects you to the airline&amp;#039;s own Website to purchase the tickets so you get the lowest possible price (airlines will often keep the best pricing on their own Website to encourage people to come to them).  3. For the lowest possible price, book no more than 90 days before your flight, and no fewer than 21 days beforehand. This is when airlines are most eager to fill seats. You can also often get the lowest fares when you leave on a Tuesday or Wednesday, since most people don&amp;#039;t want to travel on those days. 4. To avoid delays, choose the first flight of the day. It&amp;#039;s the most likely to be on time because it won&amp;#039;t have been pushed back by other delayed flights. 5. Find stress-free flights: Flightstats.com lets you check out whether a prospective flight tends to be on time or delayed, and airlinequality.com rates airlines on everything from bathroom cleanliness to beverage selection. 6. Picky about seats? Seatguru.com provides a detailed seat map of various aircraft, with in-depth comments about which seats have the best reclining abilities, most legroom, and top-notch views.  7. A sneaky way to make sure your luggage comes down the belt early is to bring your bag with you to the gate and check it in right there. It&amp;#039;ll be one of the last bags to board the plane, and therefore one of the first off. 8. If you&amp;#039;re packing something irreplaceable, put it in your carry-on bag. Too big? Booking a direct flight reduces the chances of your bags being lost in transit. For breakable stuff, ask for a &amp;quot;fragile&amp;quot; sticker when you check in your bag. 9. Bypass the sucky new checked baggage fees. First, choose your airline carefully. JetBlue Airways doesn&amp;#039;t charge for the first bag, and Southwest Airlines doesn&amp;#039;t charge for the first or second bag. Also, look for exceptions to the rules. For example, US Airways lets some customers\u2014frequent fliers, people traveling to and from Europe or Asia, first class passengers, etc.\u2014check bags for free. Next: Get hotel tips and more!  Hotel Heaven The more you know about how and when to book a room, the happier you&amp;#039;ll be when you get there. 10. When booking a room, call the local hotel number instead of the 800 number, and ask the reservation clerk if they have any specials this time of year. 11. Provided you&amp;#039;re not obsessed with a particular hotel, you can stay at five-star establishments for a steal when you book with hotwire.com. Select your destination, the neighborhood you want to stay in, and price point. You&amp;#039;ll find out the name of the hotel after you book it. 12. For even deeper savings, name your price for a room at priceline.com. Enter in your destination city, desired area, and travel dates. They&amp;#039;ll list several hotels with different star ratings that fit your criteria. You select a hotel, decide how much you want to pay, and place a bid. If your bid is accepted, they&amp;#039;ll reveal the name of the hotel. 13. Truly demanding travelers should book their rooms by calling the hotel directly; that way, the person you&amp;#039;re talking to will know enough about the place to get you what you want. Crave a pretty view? Ask for a room on a high floor. Peace and quiet? Tell the desk clerk that you&amp;#039;re a light sleeper, and request a room that&amp;#039;s not near the elevator, front door, or any noisy appliances. Love a superpowered shower? Ask for a room on the same floor as the water pump. 14. Join a hotel chain&amp;#039;s loyalty club. Then, when checking in, tell the desk clerk you&amp;#039;re a devoted regular and politely ask if there&amp;#039;s any way they could give their &amp;quot;best customer&amp;quot; a free upgrade.  15. A nice alternative to hotels is renting a house \u2014 you have the whole place to yourselves, and can save money by doing your own cooking. Check out the properties on homeaway.com or cyberrentals.com. Read the user reviews to ensure you find a quality place. It&amp;#039;s also smart to register your trip (for free) with these sites to guarantee all unrefunded payments made to the property owner up to $5,000.  A Few More Brilliant Planning Tips Car rental, virtual travel agents, and another smart way to figure out when to go. 16. Pinpoint the best time of year to visit a certain destination by logging on to weather2travel.com. It lists everything from average temps to hours of sunshine to monthly rainfall. 17. Tripit.com is like a personal travel agent. Send an e-mail to plans@tripit.com with all your travel info (flight reservations, car rental details, hotel confirmation, etc.) and it will create a master itinerary for your trip that you can access from anywhere. 18. It&amp;#039;s way cheaper to book a rental car online than in person once you&amp;#039;re there. Before buying insurance, check with your personal auto insurance company or the credit card you reserved it with. Many of them include coverage for rental cars. 19. Travel during &amp;quot;shoulder season&amp;quot;: May or September. Hotel and airline rates will be lower than during peak season and there will be fewer tourists, but restaurants and attractions will be still be open. 20. Trick out your iPhone with travel-friendly apps. Sit or Squat guides you to the closest free bathroom to your current location, accompanied by actual photos and user reviews. HiConverter converts everything from temperature to currency exchanges to clothing sizes in foreign countries. Gasbag clues you into nearby gas stations, and how much they charge per gallon. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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