There are some key travel websites with little know features that can make your travel planning experience so much easier and so much cheaper. In this lesson, we reveal them all for you.

*Please note: Award Mapper has closed their doors, so when you get to that section - feel free to fast-forward.

There isn't a reliable replacement, so we now recommend doing searches directly on Hyatt, Marriott, Hilton & IHG's websites (and in that order since Hyatt will have the best values 9 out of 10 times.)