Using Coupons to Create Your Dream Vacation
If you are already familiar with coupons and use them regularly; you know what kind of magic coupons can do for your budget. Coupons can help make purchases fit into a very small budget and stretch your dollars. Coupons can do the same when you are planning a vacation. Here are five great ways to use coupons to save on your dream vacation.
1. Airfare
Discount travel websites like Expedia or Travelocity are a great place to start looking for affordable airfare. Try visiting several of these sites and signing up for their e-mail lists. Expedia also offers a free rewards program that will allow you to earn points from your purchases. You will begin to receive special offers and coupons that can help you save on airfare for your vacation as well rental cars and hotels.
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You can also inquire with an individual airline if that is how you are purchasing your ticket. An airline’s website might be advertising a deal, or you might score a discount simply by asking an airline representative if any are available. Read more…
3 Essential Backpacking Experiences
So, you’ve booked your around the world flight, you’ve been working your two jobs and saving like a crazed person for over a year, you’ve sorted out your travel insurance, and the time has come to make that much-feted young person’s pilgrimage around the globe as a backpacker. The journey is one many before you have done, but it will remain a highly personal experience nonetheless. Backpacking—whether you’re gone for a month or a year—has the potential to shape or change your entire world view, especially if you’ve not done a lot of travel beforehand. If you’re about to head off on an adventure of your own, you no doubt want to take advantage of every experience that comes your way. Here, we’ve listed a few of the most essential backpacking experiences…
Getting Lost
Not that we’d recommend it all too often, but if you haven’t been lost at least once on your backpacking adventure, you haven’t been adventurous enough! Read more…
The Travel Speed Packing Guide for Men
Your bachelor party heads off in 3 hours. You and your acquaintances booked the ultimate3-day vacation! You designed this out with perfection. You identified the best the night clubs and you saved by getting a cheap flight. Your expedition to the airport covered with a car service. You shopped your new gear on Wednesday this week and were lucky enough to catch some bargains to buy yourself a a change of wardrobe. Your wardrobe…is not in the luggage and the ride is on its way to your office to make sure. You have 20 minutes to pack. You better move quickly.
First off, you are a man and you go light. You don’t need that gigantic bag for a weekend getaway. Take the small suitcase and study these steps. Read more…
5 Great Places for Coffee in New York
It’s no great secret that New Yorkers like their coffee and they like it good and hot. So if you’re visiting the Big Apple you simply have to sample a cup of good old American Joe. You can’t buy great coffee from just any place though – every shop with the name café after it can sell you a cup, but to make sure you’re getting the best in town head to one of these extra special coffee houses. In this guest post, from New York travel guide publishers NewYork101, we explore 5 great places to go for coffee in NYC. Get caffeinated!
Café Grumpy
I can honestly say that when you’re at Café Grumpy you will never be grumpy! Why? They make what is perhaps the best latte you will ever taste, they make the best iced coffee you will ever taste, but most of all there is a no laptops policy! There is nothing worse than walking into a coffee shop to see each table being used by a pretentious laptop owner. Here you are safe from all that and the friendly and welcoming service will drive you to come back again and again. Read more…
Why Settle for One Beach When You Can Have Ten?
Which is the best beach in the world? I’ll be darned if I know, as I have only ever got sand in my shoes on about 7 of them. I also have to admit that a cold British wind was whipping round my stinging ears on 5 of them as well.
This leaves me with two foreign beaches to my credit. One in Spain and one in Italy. Now I feel that it is time to see some more and this led me to the original question about which one is the best on the planet.
Photo by Shazwan
The problem is that most of them are too far away just to pop along and see if they are really that great or not. It’s not like when someone tells you that the local supermarket has an offer on beans and you put on your coat and wander round to stock up for the next few weeks. I soon realised that going directly to the best beach in the world wasn’t going to be easy. People talk about fabulous stretches of sand in Thailand, Jamaica, India, Spain, Colombia and the Seychelles as being the best on Earth while I can’t even make my mind up between Blackpool and Bournemouth. You see my problem I am sure. Anyway, I made this list of what I would look for in the best beach to see if it might help narrow things down. Read more…
Five Famous and Fictional Hotels
Television and movies bring to life settings that we can never forget, immortalizing hotels, motels and lodges within our memories for years to come. Here we explore five of the film locations of all time.
The Bates Motel
Pretty girls checked in, but they didn’t check out as actress Janet Leigh showed us during the iconic shower scene in one of the best horror films of all time, “Psycho”. The motel was filmed on the set at Universal Studios in Hollywood, CA, and is still a part of the studios’ back-lot tour.
The movie was adapted from the Robert Bloch novel with the same name. Bloch based his story on Ed Gein from Wisconsin, who was a grave robber and a murderer. Gein lived just 40 miles from the author. The set of the Bates Motel was inspired by a painting from artist Edward Hopper named “The House by The Railroad.” Read more…
Travel App Giveaway – Distracted Driving Laws
Yesterday we introduced you to Distracted Driving Laws, an iPhone travel app providing information on state bans and regulations regarding handheld, cell phone, and texting usage while driving. Sugar Coded Apps, the developer of Distracted Driving Laws, is offering 25 iTunes promo codes for TravelTweaks.com readers with a passion for road trips!
How to get your Distracted Driving Laws promo code
The 25 promo codes will be given on a first come, first served basis. All you have to do is leave a comment on this giveaway announcement telling us where you’re headed on your US road trip. No spam comments will be taken into consideration for the giveaway. Read more…
