I cannot stress to you enough how much I love lastminutetravel.com’s site design. It is elegant, it is sharp, and it is minimalistic in all the best ways. Travel sites, in my experience, frequently suffer from an issue of clutter. This is natural, seeing as most travel sites offer several (sometimes dozens) very content-heavy services. It is no easy task to take a sprawling list of flight and hotel prices and information and turn it into a sleek, sparse site.
lastminutetravel.com, however, has managed to do just that. I think that the site makes brilliant use of panels and images to streamline content. Whereas a lot of travel sites tend to be largely text based, lastminutetravel.com presents itself with a lot of white space, nice and clean lines, and beautiful high-resolution images of destinations, hotels, and more.
My only complaint regarding the design of lastminutetravel.com is the fact that it doesn’t seem to offer as many filtering options as I’ve seen elsewhere. You can filter flight search results, for instance, by number of stops, duration, times, carriers, and layover airports. Perhaps this is a gripe not so much with the site design as it is a feature oversight. I would like to see a few more filtering and arrangement options from lastminutetravel.com in the future.