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June 17, 2025 21 mins

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On this episode of the Travel More Podcast - Summer School Edition, we share a cautionary tale of when booking a room through a third party went wrong. If your go to for booking travel is to visit Expedia, Priceline or browse through your credit card travel portal, keep listening. Learn when and how to use these tools, and more importantly what to avoid before booking your next trip.

In today's episode, we cover: 

  • The two big reasons why you should not use third party OTA (online travel agent) portals. Examples of those include Expedia, Priceline, credit card portals, etc. 
  • One reason why we would suggest using a third party booking system- this is a very specific example! 
  • Some real world examples of problems we've encountered booking with third party portals (or OTAs)

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