In Reply to: own bookings posted by holidayone on Thursday, 8. August 2013 at 13:05 Bali Time:
I book my own, I do not use webjet as they were more expensive, than direct with the airline. Most airlines including Webjet charge a credit card fee/booking fee so calculate that into the cost.
I either use Agoda or booking.com for hotels. Agoda charge a booking fee. Booking.com you pay the hotel when you arrive. No booking fee but it is going to cost me more in 2 weeks time because of the drop in the AUD. Price was in USD.
Sometimes when you search some booking agents will show no vacancies but the other one will. I believe the hotels give the booking agents X amount of rooms and it will depend on how quick they sell. This happened last year. I booked through Agoda. Brother in Law tried Agoda 1 hour later, and no vacancies. Tried Booking.com and rooms available. same hotel same dates.