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Hotel archive
A Ghastly Hotel Experience (and How I Fixed it) All appeared well at 1:30 in the morning as we arrived to our reserved place at the Hyatt Place Jacksonville airport. However the lobby was packed full of worst kind of zombies: travelers who couldn’t get a hotel room. At least 10 families filled every space in sight. Upon weaving my way to the front desk, I learned why: the washers had failed. The ghastly desk clerk offered to add my…
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I just signed up my in-laws for a Greek frequent flyer program
The Deal In-laws are coming to town for their annual visit, and a trick I learned at the Chicago Seminars will get even once-yearly flyers a free checked bag and possible upgrades on every United and US Airways flight they take until 2014: signing them up for the Aegean Airlines frequent flyer program. Aegean, as in Greece. I know it sounds strange, but with just the one flight to come visit us, they’ll earn enough miles on Aegean for Star…
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Travel insurance archive
If This Doesn’t Make You Buy Travel Insurance, Nothing Will, 2016 Ive long been an advocate for travel insurance and usually see some pushback. Objections usually run along “XXX credit card has trip cancellation or lost bag insurance so why should I buy extra travel insurance?”. Well, I hope the following tale will convince you that the $38 we spent on travel insurance was money well spent and that you’ll reconsider before your next trip. Our Story I knew we…
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Dear Deal Mommy archive
I Need a New Year’s Vacation Under $800! Can You Help? 2013 Dear Deal Mommy, We are a military family in DC and my folks are coming in for Christmas and New Years. The husband and I have decided to take full advantage of this and would like to take a vacation on our own while the grandparents stay with our kiddo anywhere between the dates of Dec 26 and Jan 5. We’d love to go somewhere sunny or even…
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Camp Mom South America archive
4 Travel Hacking Skills that Led to Camp Mom 2017, Nov. 2016 I began FT4RL with a quick “state of The Hobby” chat in order to drive home the fact that everything changes but nothing changes at the same time. The “nothing changes” refers to the travel hacking skills we all need in our toolkit. The travel hacking skills list just sprung into action when this Secret Flying sub-$400 RT fare to Santiago, Chile popped up on my twitter feed. Fares to deep South America…
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Hawaii archive
Best Beaches in Kauai for Babies and Toddlers This is a guest post by Sam Simon, founder of Milenomics. I’m a big fan and encourage you to check him out. Best Beaches in Kauai for Babies and Toddlers Today I’ll go over the beaches I consider the best beaches in Kauai for Babies and Toddlers–or for anyone really who wants a nearly empty beach with little or no waves. A General Note on Kauai beaches: 6 weeks prior to my visit…