Every (Northern) winter, the big hotel companies launch sales and promotions to fill their rooms in the slow times after the New Year and they can offer great value as you have seen with my successful promotion participation. In summer, the hotels tend to be full and the promotions level off. Some chains, like Marriott, […]
And in this weeks edition of Deal Dispatch, you get new deals for flights, hotels and travel gear:
Hotels: Accor has lots of sales, usually one private sale for members every week. Sometimes, they just have a few hotels in one region and sometimes they are more broad. Right now, there are hotels on sale all the way around the world, up to 50% off and with good availability. With Accor, these are
Now, that I’ve completed my ASEAN Explorer trip, courtesy of the AirAsia ASEAN Pass+, I want to share the numbers – costs of flights, fees, taxes and add-ons, and compare it to what it would have cost me otherwise. How much did I actually save and was it all worth it? In short – it
I recently traveled on my ASEAN Explorer trip, courtesy of the AirAsia ASEAN pass, through the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. I purchased 11 flights for the pass at $250, plus taxes and fees, getting the cheapest set of flights in over 20 years of travel (details coming soon). With the pass (of 10 or 20
I recently reported on another Accor hotel promotion (here) – stay three times and get points worth EUR160! Of course I had to try and fit that into my ASEAN Explorer trip, courtesy of the AirAsia pass!
By now you know that I’m a big fan of the Club Carlson hotel rewards program (reviewed here). Between the credit card (review here) giving you a free night with every reward stay and gold status, and the frequent promotions they run, they made me a fan. Of all the promotions available in Q1/2015, their
Lonely Planet (reviewed here) is my favorite guide, especially since they became available as ebooks and I can take a whole stack of them along on my tablet or phone! They have sales every once in a while and for the next two days you can snatch any Lonely Planet ebook guide for only $8.99!
The U.S. Travel Association organizes a huge sale of travel every year. Over the next five weeks you can buy hotel stays, car rentals or entertainment park tickets at big discounts. Every day a different item is on sale, today you can buy Club Carlson points for stays at the Radisson Blu, Park Plaza or
To make it easier to spend less on travel, I’ll combine travel related deals I find online into the … drumroll… Deal Dispatch! For this first one, there are money savers for buying the perfect travel luggage, saving 1/3 on your hotel stay and scoring a cheap flight to Europe!
Last year, Lufthansa announced that they would launch a long-haul, low-cost subsidiary under their Eurowings brand, with many industry people and bloggers questioning the move. While that might be unfamiliar to the American market, it seems modeled after the “charter” (tourist) flights that have been around in Germany for a long time. Now, they are
I love South East Asia: The 10 countries making up ASEAN have so much to offer – from getaways to white beaches to exciting cities; from untouched nature and wildlife to stunning historical sights there is so much to see. And the different countries are as different as European ones, making it worth spending time