Kayak: the most comprehensive flight search and hotels worldwide

Travel - one of the best forms of recreation. a change of scenery as well as possible helps to cleanse the mind and get rid of fatigue. Well, someone has to often travel a lot for work. Today Layfhaker will talk about travel, or rather one of the best search service and booking of flights, hotels and car named Kayak, And in particular its free mobile app for iOS. In addition to the apple platform is supported by Android, and versions for Windows Phone and Kindle is now in the stage of translation into Russian.

To talk about the international service, working in their field for almost 10 years, it is not very necessary, because of them, and so everyone knows who faced with the need to quickly find a cheap plane ticket or book a suitable room hotel. The service works around the world, so it will be relevant for any traveler.

What is it and how it works

Let's start with the concept and mechanics work. In short, the Kayak as a service is a metapoiskovik covering all-all-all the airlines and agencies providing similar services. The principal difference is that Kayak meets all the needs of the traveler, while most of the other specialized services are usually only on the tickets. Even if now you use any service (AnyWayAnyDay and the like), then go to Kayak is still open more options, because it is looking for and to these services as well. In general, it is such a Google, but only flight.

When faced with something big, something in my head involuntarily there is concern about the reliability and relevance of the data submitted service, but this problem was solved by direct links with the region through a network of local partners, is also responsible for the accuracy and relevance of the information.

Mobile app

The main application screen is a list of all the main functions are alternate repetition of which can be customized. This is especially useful when often need to refer to any one function. We put her first and not looking for more.

To save time, you can create a pattern consisting of the registration data, which then can be made to form in the purchase and booking single tap.

Search and buy tickets

There is captivating simplicity, intuitiveness and natural search sequence. Choose city / airport of departure and destination faster autocompletion options.

Departure means as an indication of a particular day, and the interval of +/- 1 or 2 days.

It remains to specify the number of passengers and select the class, after the application begins to look for. Depending on the selected parameters of the search may take several tens of seconds, but the wait paid off all access to all available flights for this search.

We were looking for an option from Moscow to Kazan, and got 101 results. To weed out the least acceptable options list can be filtered in several ways: by airlines, and by the presence of the number of transplants, the airport of departure and arrival, of course, for the price, as well as the departure, arrival and duration flight.

Additional sorting builds a list of descending / ascending price, flight time, up to the time of departure, and a few more options.

Tap on the flight translates get noticed in vendor selection menu. Sam Kayak does not sell tickets, and transfers directly to the site of the vendor companies, and where the user buys a ticket. Screen confirms that the search included everything, including the above-mentioned AWAD (with the price of 600 rubles higher than in the first sentence, clearly?)

If the ticket is not searched itself, it found the flight with all the details you can share the through social services and e-mail, and add Reminders, if necessary.

My travels

This is a very practical feature, and it is to tell apart: the app remembers all past and upcoming flights and collects information about them in the section "My journey". You can consult with all the nuances of the coming flight and subsequent placement in the country of arrival, flight details to remember that you We made a week ago, and as a bonus the app will monitor the price changes for the next flight, and report them as notifications.

Also, an application can remind you of any changes to flights in real time, with the information in the application comes before is displayed on the scoreboard at the airport. We will know everything first.

Search for hotels

In general, all three types of search (flights, hotels and cars) to unify the interface. Here we specify the city in which we want to stay, settlement and departure date, number of rooms and establishing themselves, then the system begins to search.

Filter results by going on hotel stardom, according to the company-owner, price, hotel name and distancing the hotel from the city center. Filter your results sorted for the same key parameters.

Another practical feature: all hotels displayed on the city map to help orient at choice, and if the local language is unfamiliar, you can show the map with the location of the hotel right on the taxi driver smartphone. Conveniently.

From the screenshots it can be seen that each hotel is provided with fairly detailed descriptions, photos, and direct dial telephone for communication with reception.

When the hotel is selected, the user is still enter your information (here a very useful function AutoComplete data) and book a room.

Additional functions

car rental search function. This option is not so popular, but it's here too. Search by city, which need a car, the price class provides auto and equipment.

Data on airports. It contains information about the availability of bank terminals at each airport, restaurants and other useful and necessary things.

List of things. The experienced traveler always remember that you need to take to the road, but the memories we have, unfortunately, not an ideal. There's a built-in check-list of things needed on the road, divided into categories.

Currency Converter. This small but useful tool completes the list of application functions.

Total

To be honest, with the number of features and capabilities, which provides mobile Kayak app most surprised its clarity and (even more surprisingly) compactness. Instead of intricate maze of menyushek and sections you see on the screen correctly configured by the tool. In conjunction with the actual comprehensive search and a free application you can safely put the five stars. Worth to educate.

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