Another tool to travel on the cheap…

We just launched a new application (Trabber Offers) on Trabber´s Italian version. Trabber Offers helps travellers that are time or destination flexible to automatically find the cheapest airfares. Users just need to select the Departure city or route to obtain the best prices.

Examples:
– Best offers from Rome
– Best offers from Milan to New York

How does it work?
We have implemented an algorithm that analyses all searches performed by Trabber´s users. With this information, the algorithm decides whether the price found is a “good deal” or not. This is decided using current mean airfares per route.

We have integrated Google Street View images to Trabber Hotel search engine to allow users to view the streets where hotels are located. We consider this information could be very useful when deciding to book a hotel.

Next to the address of each hotel and the link that opens the Map, users now can find a new link, View street. By clicking on this link, a 3D imagine provided by this new Google feature will be diplayed. Note that currently Google just support a limited list of cities. Thus, this feature will just be provided in Trabber results where supported by Google (Here you can find the current supported list of cities).

Keep in mind that not always the image displayed will show the front side of the hotel. In such cases, you would be able to see the hotel by turning the 3D image to either side.

Thanks to last weeks’ developments, Trabber flight search engine already extracts information from 40 online travel agencies and airline websites to allow users to easily find the best flight deals.

Recently, we have added to the service three low cost airlines: TUIfly (tuifly.com), Iceland Express and Smart Wings (smartwings.com) as well as 2 more traditional airlines: Brussels Airlines (brusselsairlines.com), and bmi, which certainly will improve Trabber´s results in several European routes.

Over the coming weeks, we will present new features and add new airlines and agencies to the service. If you miss something in Trabber, send us your ideas or suggestions!

We have made quite a few changes on the results page of the flights search engine. These are the most significant:

1. One-way flights are automatically combined when it is found that the price is more convenient than in just one purchase.
2. Duplicated flights from different providers are grouped to better compare prices. On the new layout, users will see the price of the cheaper supplier on the left side of the result set and all other options are also shown next to it.
3. New filters have been added to allow an easier flight selection.
4. Improved display performance. The application has been migrated to AJAX that allows a smoother result update as page reloads are eliminated.

We have also made some other changes in design and usability ;).

We hope you enjoy the improvements. You can leave your comments as always on this blog or in https://www.trabber.co.uk/contact.

The version of Trabber for the Italian market has appeared on several reviews by Italian bloggers during last weeks. Here are some of them:

Dario Salvelli
Techissimo
DelfinsBlog

We would like to thanks the authors for the analysis and feedback.

We have just launched a new product on the UK version of Trabber, a search engine that helps to compare hotel fares.

It works very similarly to the flight search engine. The software connects simulaneously to several online travel agencies and aggregates the content to allow users to easily compare all options. We have implemented several filters to help on the selection.

Rather than explaining it further I think it is worth a try.

Now it is your time to tell us what do you think 🙂

Today Trabber Deutschland results include also flights from Lastminute.de

Remember that you can always check the full list of providers (take into account that the travel agencies included are different for each country).

We have just deployed a new hotel search engine in Trabber France.

It works in a similar way to the flight search engine that you already know: it searches for hotels in several providers at once and it shows them in a results page that simplifies their comparison and selection using filters (by hotel category, situation, etc.) and sorting options (by price, stars, distance to city center).

But maybe it’s better that you just try it and tell us what you think: hotel search engine.

This is the first post in this new Trabber Blog in English.

From now on, we will use this blog to post in English about all the news relevant to Trabber users outside Spain. And we will keep using the original blog to post about news for users in Spain.

We have migrated all the English posts in the original blog to this one.  This is why this post doesn’t really look like the first one.

We have added air fares from the low cost airline LTU to Trabber. LTU is a german airline that was acquired some months ago by Air Berlin, one of the leading low cost airlines in Europe. The company has many routes throughout Europe and also offers transatlantic flights to America and Asia.

We believe this new development will help to improve Trabber’s results. If you have any feedback or comment please contact us via email.