My duty fulfilling Mom's desire of visiting the remaining sacred locations

Finally we are planning to fly after a long time, for which I booked the tickets today. Last two years had been a blanket ban for travel to help the kid focus on career, now that he has decided to take a drop (will share more on a separate post), I decided to start fulfilling Mom's desire of visiting the remaining sacred locations and our next destination is Ujjain, which is one of the four sacred locations, where four drops of the nectar of immortality fell according to our Hindu mythology. The famous Kumbh Mela happens at these four places for that reason - Prayagraj (Allahabad), Haridwar, Ujjain, and Nashik. We have already been to Prayagraj and Haridwar, so after Ujjain, Nashik will be next on our list. This way it also fulfills my visit to all the sacred place along with doing the sacred job of fulfilling her desire - she loves to travel even at this age.

Now when it comes to flight booking, we always try to look forward for some discounted fare and I use https://www.skyscanner.co.in/ to find out cheap flights. They are just a search engine, and help us find the best flight ticket but the actual booking is done directly on the airline or travel provider, to which they redirect. In my case, it pointed out to Indigo for the cheapest deal but when I landed in Indigo, I saw they are also running an anniversary sale. The way they advertise will make you feel like you will definitely get some discount, but after going through terms and conditions, I was disappointed to find out that the offer is applicable on select sectors only. Since the price shown by skyscanner matched to Indigo site, I decided to book my tickets anyways in Indigo site, as it gives some BluChips Balance that possibly can be used in future.

Do you use any other site for your flight booking that gives some more advantage ?

I also verified their offers from Cleartrip and Goibibo, and the price shown in the search result is not exactly the same because the airlines or service provider add a nice convenience fee once you fill everything and move to the payments page. Even Indigo did that, they added a nice 1.5k for convenience fee which I could not save by trying out different payment methods.

And as you see in the first image, they provided a scratch card promising some reward, but then when I scratched it , it said better luck next time - even a very small reward would have meaned something but their buggy site now tells me I have no scratch card.

Now that we are starting some travel plan, I am curious to know, if you use any other site and get some advantages ? And I go to my local tour operator for hotel and vehicles, because they provide better competitive rate than other sites like makemytrip or other sites. And support wise, they provide much better support available 24/7. How do you book your hotels and taxi ?
I am interested to know about your experience if it can help me better.

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