1. ALL TRAVEL WEB SITES ARE CREATED EQUAL – RIGHT?

Afraid not. These days there are really two types of sites for booking online travel. The more traditional travel web sites like Expedia, Travelocity, and Travel Now… and new kid on block known as travel search engines, which include sites like SideStep and Kayak.

A travel web site only searches its own database of available flights, and rooms, and car rentals. So search is limited. On plus side you’ll get more search features and booking services offered.

At travel search engines, results will be more comprehensive than at a travel web site. These engines will include results directly from airline sites, travel web sites, and other databases containing flight and room availability. But you’ll find a more restrictive search capability, and you won’t get “bells and whistles” of a travel web site.

2. IT REALLY DOES PAY TO COMPARE AS MANY AS YOU CAN

A travel web site will negotiate and purchase blocks of fares and rooms directly from airlines and hotels. They can then set their own reduced rate. Because of this same seat on a flight, or room in a hotel, can vary between travel web sites. So if you want cheapest fare or room always check out at least two or three before booking online travel.

3. TRAVEL WEB SITES DON'T ALWAYS GET THE BEST DEAL

And just before you press that “submit” button at your chosen online booking site… hop over for a final check at airline or hotel web site for any special offers or lower rates you may get if you book directly. Sometimes best deals are reserved for their own online customers or preferred clients, and you’ll even avoid fees.

Speaking of fees…

Water Temperature.

The water temperature diving in Philippines, is similar to diving in your warm bath at home! It is absolutely divine. A balmy 22 C to 25 C during cooler months of December to March and 25 C to 28 C during warmer months of April to November. Water temperatures like these, gives you opportunity of diving in comfort of lycra skin suits or 3mm wetsuits. When you are use to diving in 5mm and 7mm steamers or even dry suits, this type of diving is pure heaven.

Why Dive Philippines?

The Philippine Islands, which there are over 7,100, have widest variety of marine life in world. The diving here is still being discovered, it does however have a number of popular spots which are very familiar with diving tourist and these sites are world class. Outside these popular diving locations lie thousands of unexplored scuba diving opportunities. Since Philippines has so many islands, with some of them not easily accessible, allure for scuba diver in Philippines to be first to explore an underwater reef or to discover a wreck is a real possibility.

Statistics from Philippine Department of Tourism indicate that scuba divers visiting Philippine Islands, return for an average of 10 trips each. If this is not a high recommendation on quality and health of scuba diving industry in Philippines, then I’m not sure what is!

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