Only two days until the Olympic games start in Beijing … if you plan a last minute trip there, it is time to prepare! By the way, the reason for the Olympics starting on 08/08/2008 is the meaning of the number 8. It is a lucky number in China. 8 is pronounced “ba” in Chinese.  [ Read More ]

Today I read about a funny promotion of Priceline on TechCrunch. Priceline is giving a “sunshine guarantee” for over 100 destinations from July 1 to September 7. If it is raining for at least half of your vacation, you will get your money back. Unfortunately there are no European destinations listed in the deal. Therefore,  [ Read More ]

In the last weeks we did some extensive research on travel websites (a very wise thing to do as a travel start-up We found two types of websites which really impressed us, because they are technologically leading-edge. The first type of website is meta-search. These sites compare and filter the prices of flights and hotel  [ Read More ]