I think it depends on your relationship with certain hotels. If I'm staying at White Sands, it's always best to call them for a deal since they know me. Other hotels, I try a combination of things to see what's the best price. Usually I'll start by booking thru expedia and getting a base price for hotel and flight. Then I'll go to trivago for the best hotel price and see if I can find flights separately thru various sites like priceline, expedia... etc. Sometimes grouping everything on expedia works, other times getting things separately works... it's usually a crap shoot. This year, in Feb, I used Trivago to book the Seastar separately and then called White Sands to book the rest of the trip.






