The Secret To Getting Best Travel Prices on Priceline & Hotwire: Part One
- April 17th 2008
This is part one in a three-part series on using Priceline and Hotwire to get killer travel deals.
Who has a better price on hotels, Hotwire or Priceline? Is there a “secret” to bidding? What sort of travel booking is always a win-win situation?
These questions and more will be answered in today’s episode of BETTER BIDDING WITH SAMANTHA!
This is part one in a two part series of how to use Hotwire, Priceline and other sites in your arsenal of tools for finding the best travel deals online.
The big secret
Most articles make you read through the whole thing to get to the money shot, but I’m going to give it to you right up front. Are you ready? Read more »
Tags: cheap travel, great travel deals
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12 Days In New York On $130 Without Missing a Beat
- March 30th 2008
What do you do when you’re an intrepid traveler short on cash? Get creative. I recently had to travel to New York for a conference and since most of my money was tied up in paying for a cross-country move, I had to make it work on the cheap.
Tip #1: Keep Up On Airfare Deals
Luckily I knew this conference was coming up in advance, so I had time to book a cheap deal. I looked through all my point sources but was just shy of the amount needed to book a flight. Suddenly Northwest Airlines (the hub flying out of Minneapolis) started offering PerksChoice, a program that lets you use points for half a ticket! Bang! $110 off my flight! A great forum I discovered to keep up on things like this is flyertalk.com.
Airfare cost=$110 Read more »
Tags: cheap travel, creative travel, great travel deals, new york, travel
Catch The Couchsurfing Wave For Budget Travel
- February 13th 2008
Thrifty and not afraid of strangers? Try Couchsurfing. I’m sure you remember when you were poor and in college, you “couchsurfed,” as in, stayed on a friend’s couch. Those sorts of accommodations-options dissipate as you get older and a) have enough money for hotels or b) your friends get more money and have guest rooms with actual beds.
However, the Couchsurfing Project (355,000 members in 223 countries) and others like it have taken advantage of the Internet to organize couchsurfing to build community and make new friends. Couchsurfing.com was dreamt up by Casey Fenton when he booked an impromptu trip to Iceland. Read more »
Tags: cheap travel, great travel deals
