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Dawn Gilbertson

Dawn Gilbertson

Columnist

Sep 2, 2026

10:24
She actually has all three.
10:26
I just know that from my travel patterns, I couldn't live without them personally, and I think a lot of frequent flyers can't based on my inbox.
10:34
One thing I want to shout from the rooftops is if you have TSA PreCheck and a passport, there's a relatively new program called TSA Touchless ID.
10:44
If you can opt into Touchless, you will have one of the smoothest airport experiences you've ever had.
Victoria Craig
Victoria CraigCORRESPONDENT
8:51
And that was what I was gonna ask is how has this become such a pervasive problem? Is it that these third-party companies just have the money to pay to have their websites go up higher in the search rankings? What does it come down to?
9:03
I think that's reason number one.
9:05
This one site that I kept coming upon over and over again, guestreservations.com, and not every single hotel, but when you search a lot of hotels, it's the first one that comes there.
9:15
And the way they trick you is they put, like, a keyword like "guest" or "reservation" in the URL.
9:22
So you're looking at it and you're thinking, "Here's the name of my hotel." So they use the name of the hotel, and then they use something like "guest." And then you're like, "Oh, okay.
9:28
Well, what's wrong with this?" And sometimes there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, right? If the price difference is teeny-tiny, and you get there and your room is fine.
9:35
But some of the examples that I found, the price difference was so egregious.
Victoria Craig
Victoria CraigCORRESPONDENT
9:43
If the FTC is already looking into this but hasn't been able to do anything, how do you stop it?

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