Expedia Coupon Code Info

The company Expedia is huge! They not only own Expedia.com but also Hotels.com (get a hotels.com coupon code), TripAdvisor, Hotwire, Venere.com, and a ton of sites that cater to different countries around the world. They are listed on the NASDAQ under EXPE and their revenue in 2010 was an eye-popping $3.35 Billion. They employ over 8,900 people all over the world including over 1,800 in China. Of course, you are here for a coupon code from Expedia.com so we'll limit the discussion to that site only which henceforth I will refer to as just Expedia. First paragraph and I already threw in a "henceforth"!

Expedia was founded by Microsoft in 1996. At the time, few consumers were using the internet to buy anything, much less travel. In fact, the American Society of Travel Agents issued a statement saying "There may be a small percentage of do-it-yourselfers who want to book electronically, but most people think their time is too valuable." Great foresight dummies. By the end of the year, people were booking over $1 million per week and that is before Expedia coupon codes were available. In 1998, Expedia launched a travel service in the United Kingdom that also grew extremely rapidly especially among business travelers. However, in 1999 Microsoft realized that the site should focus on more than just the software so they spun it off through an initial public offering. The initial stock offering was for 5.2 million shares at $14 which represented 13.6 percent the company. Microsoft kept the rest. In 2001, USA Networks, Inc purchased a controlling interest of Expedia from Microsoft for $1.5 Billion. In December of 2001, Expedia finally reported its first profitable quarter which is all the more amazing in that it was the quarter right after the September 11th attacks. In 2005, USA Networks, which by then had changed its name to IAC, spun off Expedia and all of its other travel businesses again under the name of Expedia, Inc. It must be getting pretty dizzy, right! Nobody laughed at that. 

In 2011, Expedia has localized sites in 22 different countries. Customers can book flights, hotels, rental cars, vacation packages, cruises, and even activities such as tours to do when they get to where they're going. You can book them separately or save more by booking a combination of several different things. Usually it's best to book everything at the same time through one of their vacation packages because that is where you'll get the biggest discount especially if it is part of a promotion.

Expedia offers a huge number of daily deals and last minute deals for destinations all over the world. You can either search the promotions by destination or by vacation type. For example, if you know you want an all-inclusive beach vacation but don't know exactly where you want to go you can look at all of the special offers available for that type of vacation. In 2011 they partnered with daily deal site Groupon to offer even better daily deals through their mailing list. Honestly, if you spend any time on the site it is hard not to take advantage of one of their promotions because they are almost everywhere and available for almost everything. Expedia also offers a decent rewards program that I have actually used to get free nights at several hotels. They have a best price guarantee which means that if you can find a better price anywhere else online they will refund the difference and give you a $50 Expedia coupon code. The coupon code is valid for one year and has no blackout dates. 

Expedia coupon codes come in all shapes and sizes. Most of the time Expedia doesn't offer coupon codes per say but rather special links that lead to hidden pages offering the best deals available on the site. They offer coupons for everything that they offer including flights, hotels, vacation packages, cruises, and rental cars. Flight promo codes usually offer either a certain dollar amount off or a percentage off and are usually for either a destination or a certain carrier. Hotel coupon codes on Expedia are very plentiful. They usually target either a destination or a certain chain and usually offer either a percentage discount or free nights. They also offer unpublished rate hotels which means you will know the area and the number of stars but not the actual name of the hotel until after you book it. These are usually huge discounts if you are willing to take the risk. Expedia offers a lot of coupons that are only valid for a day or two. They even have ASAP deals that end each day at 9pm. These prices are usually extremely good. The Expedia cruise coupon codes are usually either for a price discount, percentage discount, free activities, or free upgrades. They involve certain companies more often than they involve certain destinations. The vacation packages section of Expedia usually has the biggest coupon codes. Expedia is constantly running seasonal promotions on all different types of vacations to all different types of destinations. Basically, spend a little time going through the coupons below and make sure that you get the best one. 

Remember, in order to reach the secret destination pages on Expedia and activate the coupons you have to actually click where it says "Just Click Here".