When you’re planning a vacation what are your ‘go to’ travel sites?  Tripadvisor is probably one of them, along with Expedia, Travelocity, or maybe Priceline?  These are included in ebizMBA’s list of the Top 15 Most Popular Travel Websites.  Rounding out the top 10, besides the four mentioned, are Yahoo Travel, Orbitz, Kayak, Hotels.com, Travelzoo and Hotwire.  A site that is missing from the list, but is better than them all, is one called Hipmunk, according to Forbes writer Bruce Upbin.  He believes it is the best travel site on the web because it does the best job in presenting hotel and flight information and provides the best user experience.  You can read his review of the site here.  Budget Travel also recommends Hipmunk.  The travel site is on its list of 8 Cool New Tools for Finding the Perfect Hotel.  Also on the list, along with a description and tips on how to utilize each site, are:

BackBid (backbid.com); DealBase (dealbase.com); HotelSweep (hotelsweep.com); Momondo (momondo.com); Room 77 (room77.com); Room Key (roomkey.com); YourRoomKey (yourroomkey.com).

And finally, consumer advocate (and former travel agency owner) Clark Howard has his list of favorite travel websites.  Many of the ones listed above are included here, but there’s also some additional ones such as SideStep.com, Mobissimo, and FareCompare.

What travel site do you recommend?