Expedia UK

What to know about shopping at Expedia UK

Expedia UK is one of the largest online travel agents operating in Britain, and the breadth is the point: flights from hundreds of airlines, hotels and holiday rentals, flight-plus-hotel package holidays, car hire, cruises and attraction tickets all sit behind one booking and one itinerary. The package side is where it differs most from a pure hotel site — bundling a flight and hotel together is priced as a unit, and package holidays booked this way carry ATOL protection.

The saving mechanic here is worth understanding before you look for a code, because Expedia largely does not use copyable checkout codes. Discounts come through One Key, the free loyalty scheme shared across Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo: signing in unlocks member prices on selected hotels, which the site applies automatically at the point of booking, and you earn OneKeyCash on eligible bookings to put towards a later trip.

Seasonally, the biggest movements are the January sale period, a late-spring or early-summer push on summer holidays, and Black Friday into Cyber Monday, when member discounts on selected hotels tend to be at their deepest. Last-minute and mid-week stays are also consistently cheaper than weekend dates in the same property.

Two practical tips: always sign in before you search, since member prices simply do not appear to logged-out visitors, and check whether a rate is free-cancellation or non-refundable — Expedia offers free cancellation on most hotel bookings, but the cheapest headline rate is often the non-refundable one. Comparing the package price against booking the flight and hotel separately is also worth thirty seconds, as the bundle is not always the cheaper route.

— MoneySaverCodes Team