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Good travel agent for cheapest fares on multi-city trip in Asia? (no tours)

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    Good travel agent for cheapest fares on multi-city trip in Asia? (no tours)

    My plan is HKG --> Seoul --> Tokyo --> Singapore --> HKG

    I would be departing on Dec 22nd and returning Jan 6th. I already found some decent prices just browsing on my own, but if I travel agent can get them lower then I'll bite. I'm not looking for guided tours. I was originally thinking only to plan the air fare with an agent but if there are good hotel packages I might go for that


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    Try yiqifei.com but you prob need to give them a call to get a quote with the multi-city trip, good luck!


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    oops sorry just realised they are in chinese only...


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    So all those agents and sites quote me ridiculous prices in the 16,000 to 30,000 HKD range. Booking on my own is around 11,000 HKD so I think I'll just stick with that. I'm flying with well-known budget airlines and I've checked multiple times and the prices include tax. I have a 4 hour layover in Kuala Lumpur from Tokyo to Singapore but I figure that's not a big deal


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    I installed a great app on my smartphone called "skyscanner" that does a really good job of finding the best airfares. It searches a whole bunch of web sites at once and displays the total price including all taxes, which I like because taxes can vary so much and what seems like a good price might be crap because of the hidden taxes.

    Skyscanner is available for both iphone and android.

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    matrix dot itasoftware dot com - this is a website that Google now owns that searchs the reservation systems that travel agents use.

    Plug in your itinerary, pick your airlines based on the prices it returns - the system will give you an itinerary to take to the travel agent including the fare basis codes they should use.


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    +1 on skyscanner. Best feature about that is searches like:

    From Hong Kong to ANYWHERE travelling ANYTIME... order by price.

    If you're a spontaneous traveller it's pretty fun to see the cheapest possible holiday. Of course when I lived in UK it was so much easier to have a quick weekend away. I remember going to barcelona (OK... within an hr from barcelona in smoe shitty airport!) for #20GBP return (NO tax!)

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