May 17, 2012

Money Saving Travel Tips for Monday, September 18th

After a two-week hiatus, I’m back ““ with more money saving travel tips. Travel off-season and save a bundle.  This is a popular money saving option for flight attendants who must also stress about getting seats on full planes.  Think snow destinations when it’s summer:  Most ski resorts offer plenty of vacation options during the [...]

Money Saving Travel Tips for August 28th

Here are this week’s money saving travel tips: If you’ll be renting a car for more than two days, but less than a week, you should still compare the daily rate vs. the weekly rate.  Sometimes you’ll find a cheaper weekly rate, and you can just return the car early at no additional charge. It’s [...]

Money Saving Travel Tips for Monday, August 21st

This week’s Money Saving Travel Tips focus on making sure that you don’t overpay for goods and services that you receive. Check your restaurant bill to determine if a gratuity (often called a service charge) has been added.  This is frequently done for groups of six or more, but more and more restaurants and resorts [...]

Money Saving Travel Tips for Monday, August 14th

Here are this week’s money saving travel tips:   If you have your heart set on visiting that mah-velous, but expensive, restaurant, consider going for lunch when prices are generally cheaper.  (Note that I said cheaper, not cheap.)  Of, if that’s still beyond your budget, consider going for a cocktail and appetizer, or maybe just [...]

Monday's Money Saving Travel Tips

Here are this week’s money saving travel tips.  If I have neglected to mention your sure-fire way to save money while traveling, send me an email using the “email me” link at right. If you are 55 years of age, or older, consider the Senior Discount Card.  It costs $24/year, so you will need to [...]

Monday's Money Saving Tips

Here are today’s Money Saving Travel Tips: If international travel is in your plans, check with your credit card companies before you go to see what their policies are about foreign transactions fees and money conversion rates.  You don’t want to have all your savings from a favorable exchange rate eaten up by a large [...]

Navigate the Subway Systems of the World

In yesterday’s post about money saving tips, I suggested taking public transportation to and from the airport.  The subway is frequently the cheapest way to do this. A reader passed along information about the Subway Navigator, a website that claims to have information and routings for every subway system in the world.  I checked it [...]

Monday's Money Saving Tips

Here are this week’s money saving travel tips: When you make your hotel reservations, ask if there are any add-on fees that will be charged to the rate that you are quoted.  There are always taxes charged, and while you may not like paying them, but the state and/or city government legally levies them, and [...]