More Googling

I have spent a lot of time on the Internet today trying to track down the best value air fares for our trip to the US in July for a nephew's wedding.

It is almost too easy. Fares, accommodation, car hire - all at the touch of a button. But I can understand why people go to travel agents. There is never all the information you require at any one site and the quoted fare prices differ wildly from one place to another. In the case of the fare we are considering, one online site offers it at half the price it is at the airline's own site. How do you know that the cheap site is reputable? In this case we do - I have booked fares before with them and the outcome was completely satisfactory - but without that experience how would you know?

So we now know how much we are going to have to spend. All we need to decide is actual dates and what we are going to do before or after the wedding and we can make the bookings. Need to consult with other family members who are going as well, I suppose. But we'll have to make the bookings soon because it is high season in the Northern Hemisphere.