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The Opera web browser is the perfect tool for finding the best travel deals online. Whether you're looking for flights, hotels, or a rental car Opera makes it easier and just might help you get a better deal on your next trip.
Finding the best deals on flights and hotels isn't as simple as it used to be. These days websites track you using cookies, watching what you're looking at and sometimes using that information against you. For example, if you're searching for the best price on a flight, websites notice that and may raise the price on subsequent visits.
Fortunately Opera offers several tools that can stop websites from tracking you and help you find those cheap flights and great hotel deals.
## Always Use Private Browsing Mode
To minimize the chances of a website raising prices on you, take advantage of Opera's Private Browsing mode.
Every time you search for a flight or hotel, open a new private window. To do that, click the Opera logo in the upper left corner of the window and chose "New Private Window". This will open a new window that's effectively a blank slate, none of your browsing history or cookies will be visible to any websites you'll visit.
This works the other way too. Once you close the private window, any cookies that were set in it will be removed, along with the record of the sites you browsed to in that window. That means you won't see those pages in your history. This is good for finding deals, since you always look like a new visitor to the website, but bad if you want to get back to that site later. The best way around this limitation is to bookmark any page you think you might want to return to later.
Another way to hide your tracks from the prying eyes of websites is to use Opera's built-in VPN. Using the VPN means that websites won't know where you're really browsing from. They can't, for example, show you higher prices just because you live in New York, if they can't tell you live in New York. Opera's VPN obscures your origin and makes it impossible for websites to know where in the world you really are.
One final tip, don't forget Opera has a currency converter, so if for some reason a site displays prices in the wrong currency, just select the price and Opera will display a toolbar with the price converted to your currency (see Opera's settings to change the converted currency).
The combo of using private browsing mode and Opera's built-in VPN will ensure that you always see the lowest prices on airfare and hotels.
## Travel Searching Tips
It never hurts to start with a basic search, that's why Opera includes Booking.com in the default speed dial. Search for the best deal on lodging via Booking.com. Another great option is Kayak.com, also part of the default sites in Opera's speed dial.
While Booking.com and Kayak are at your fingertips in Opera, there are some other flight and hotel search engines worth exploring. <a href="https://www.skyscanner.com">Skyscanner</a> and <a href="https://www.momondo.com/">Momondo</a> offer clean, simple search interfaces and usually find excellent deals. While it doesn't always have the best price, <a href="https://www.google.com/flights/">Google Flights</a> is a good way to see which days are cheaper to fly on (useful if your trip is flexible). Remember to open each of these sites in its own private window.
If you’re planning a trip with enough flexibility, several specialty travel search sites can help find more unusual deals. <a href="https://airwander.com/">AirWander</a> specializes in finding layover deals. Give it an origin and destination and it will look for good stopping points and deals that would give you time in a new city. For example, flying from London to Athens it might be possible to stop in Paris for 24 hours, spend a day in the city and still save money.
<a href="https://www.airfarewatchdog.com/">Airfarewatchdog</a> is a good place to look for "error fares", or mistakes that have for some reason made it online. Another option for similar searches is <a href="https://www.secretflying.com/">SecretlyFlying</a>. Our final deal-finding tip is <a href="https://scottscheapflights.com/">Scott's Cheap Flights</a>. Plug in your email and the city you want to fly out of, and Scott's Cheap Flights will fill your inbox with flight deals.
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