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Spring travel deals: New apps, old-school strategies

Christopher Elliott, Special for USA TODAY 6:02 p.m. ET March 19, 2017

When Lee Speight was looking for a deal on a weekend trip from Richmond, Va., to Seattle, he started with Google Flights. The best price for an advance purchase fare was about $775.

Not bad. Could he do better?

Speight remembered a new travel site he'd heard about called Upside.com, which offers discounted hotel and airline packages bundled with gift cards as incentives. He tried it and found that for $5 less than the airfare, he could book a hotel room, too — once you factored in the value of the plastic.

"I estimate I saved about $285," says Seight, who works for a biotechnology company in Richmond.

Can you do better? If we didn't keep asking that, what kind of travelers would we be? This spring, there's a new group of sites ready to satisfy your appetite for a bargain. They're worth checking out before you check in.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/advice/2017/03/19/travel-deal-website-app/99297512/