Discount airfare to orlando

Site59 is dedicated solely to last-minute travel. You book airfare and hotel packages anywhere from three hours to 14 days prior to departure. The idea is that by buying up unsold seats and rooms, Site59 can then sell them to you at a discount. The problem is that airlines and hotels have gotten pretty good at selling their own excess inventory, so Site59's deals often aren't so hot.

We booked a last-minute trip to the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando only to learn that we had saved a whopping $12. If we had booked the room via the hotel's site, we would have gotten free passes to Universal Studios, which Site59 didn't offer. And a four-night Chicago trip was $350 less on Site59 than if we had booked the same flight and hotel directly, but five minutes on Orbitz turned up a cheaper flight and a cheaper (but comparable) hotel for $200 off Site59's price.

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