Buying Travel

Sometimes as i'm hunting for tickets I run across great sites and kick myself for not having known earlier.

Here are a couple

for hotels
a great google map mashup called mapchannels

I read about it here. For an overview take a look-- but I bet that you end up using it so long as the business model of providing great information free (thank you click through advertising) holds.

for airfare
another aggregator or meta search called momondo