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Using free web services it's easy to be your own travel agent and to get exactly the travel package you want. Bundling hotel, flight and even car rental together you can save money too. Finding the best price for your travel and accommodation means money left over to visit the best restaurants and attractions when you reach your destination, which we'll cover in tomorrow's installment of Easy Ways to Plan Amazing Vacations . TripAdvisor , as the name suggests, is your own personal... trip advisor . Just tell the site where you're going and when to see reviews of hotels, find great restaurants, read about tourist attractions both well known and obscure and more. You can also read reviews and view photos posted by other TripAdvisor users to see what you're in for. Once you return, share your own travel stories and pictures too. Ask any vacation or business traveler what the best and worst parts of their trip were. For the best parts, you'll likely hear a list of great meals, fun excursions and new friends met. For the worst, almost invariably, you'll hear about airports, travel times, delayed flights, lost bags and the like. While Flightview can't answer the lost bags part of the equation, it does give you a much better idea of what time your flight will depart and arrive and how long your flight will take. Getting a great deal on airfare and hotels usually means being in the right place at the right time. With Yapta , the right place and time means anywhere and anytime you have access to e-mail. Yapta will send you alerts when travel prices drop and you can set target prices for your trip and book as soon as the price reaches your chosen point. Nothing ruins an otherwise excellent vacation quite like bad weather. Molly McDonald demonstrates how to make travel plans online and how to choose the best time to travel by tracking weather patterns and getting long-term forecasts for your chosen destination. Use these tips and you have a much better chance of a fabulous and sunny holiday. If only we could gaze into a crystal ball to see whether or not our flight will be on time. Flightcaster offers the next best thing without the need to dabble in the occult. Enter your flight number and where you're going and you'll see where in the world your travel vessel is right now, along with the percentage odds it (and you) will be on time. Molly McDonald...

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