World Championships 2013 - Las Vegas

Pitzu said:
Hi Guys,
1:
Are these special WCA room prices for our whole staying?! As I'm thinking of arriving at 21 Sunday & leave at 30 Tuesday.
2:
Do you have any experiences with travel agencies (or whatever) like bravofly, airtickets24, tripsta, ebookers, etc.? As I would buy my ticket through one of them.
Do you think it worth buying it now or waiting a bit more?!

best regards,
István
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Hi István,

You should be able to get that 50 USD rate for your entire stay.

I don't have experience with travel agencies. You mean for flights? I generally use an aggregation site like www.kayak.com.

In terms of buying now or waiting, Microsoft's bing usually has some advice.
 
PSA: If there are some of you still looking to book flights and are worried because the prices are increasing a lot. Go onto your history and clear all of your cookies, and make sure to browse flight websites on private browsing, incognito, etc. These websites put cookies on your computer and every time you visit they just keep bumping up the price, making you want to book sooner. If they are going up on incognito, then they are actually increasing.
 
Mollerz said:
PSA: If there are some of you still looking to book flights and are worried because the prices are increasing a lot. Go onto your history and clear all of your cookies, and make sure to browse flight websites on private browsing, incognito, etc. These websites put cookies on your computer and every time you visit they just keep bumping up the price, making you want to book sooner. If they are going up on incognito, then they are actually increasing.
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Interesting thought. Are you sure this happens? Every time I've scanned kayak, skyscanner, and ITA software, they all return the same or similar results. So unless they are sharing cookies with each other, this is unlikely. Where did you hear about this and have you noticed any changes in results from clearing cookies? If so, I want to try to replicate what you see, so please give more details.
 
pjk said:
Interesting thought. Are you sure this happens? Every time I've scanned kayak, skyscanner, and ITA software, they all return the same or similar results. So unless they are sharing cookies with each other, this is unlikely. Where did you hear about this and have you noticed any changes in results from clearing cookies? If so, I want to try to replicate what you see, so please give more details.
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In Europe it's quite prevalent. When I was booking flights to Norway last year I decided to test it out so I just browsed various websites and sure enough the prices were increasing a lot, from a base of £60 or so upto £200. I cleared my cookies and sure enough they returned £70 and stayed there from browsing incognito. I've had other friends have the same thing booking flights to go to Spain after I told them about it, they tested it as well. The sites that affect it the most are sites which go through all the websites and search for the cheapest flights (Because they get a percentage cut of the cost). Of course most airlines won't do this but it's just a safety precaution.
 
Mollerz said:
In Europe it's quite prevalent. When I was booking flights to Norway last year I decided to test it out so I just browsed various websites and sure enough the prices were increasing a lot, from a base of £60 or so upto £200. I cleared my cookies and sure enough they returned £70 and stayed there from browsing incognito. I've had other friends have the same thing booking flights to go to Spain after I told them about it, they tested it as well. The sites that affect it the most are sites which go through all the websites and search for the cheapest flights (Because they get a percentage cut of the cost). Of course most airlines won't do this but it's just a safety precaution.
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What websites have you noticed this on?
 
Flight ticket bought. :-) Time to start thinking of booking hotel. But we should decide which nights we want to spend in 'Vegas, which not.
Organizers, do you plan any organized tour for cubers (like in 2011 from Bangkok) to somewhere?! (Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Death Valley or anything?!)
And if not, could we (Hunor Bence Bózsing & me) share a car with somebody to visit these places?!
 
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