It’s been a busy week in the world of travel and particularly in regards to points and miles. The Daily Getaways sales are happening, well daily. Hotels are launching their promos for the next few months and a huge announcement from Marriott and SPG about the future of their programs is imminent.
Here’s what else happened this week that caught my eye:
From an historic hotel’s renovations, to a fun way to get priority boarding, here are some stories we saw this week that we thought were interesting. We hope you will, too:
There are several articles that talked about Christmas this week:
And in the non-holiday category…
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Hi everyone! It’s the weekend! Woo HOO! Here’s a quick recap of our posts this week:
Joe wrote about:
Sharon wrote about:
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We’ve seen several people who have mentioned looking for advice to find cheap airfare, so we knew it was a topic we needed to address. Not knowing exactly how to start this post, I did what most people would do when asking the question, “How do I find cheap airfare?” I asked the interwebs.
The first few hits were from Online Travel Agencies like Expedia and Kayak. Not exactly what I was looking for. The next few hits were articles, so I checked out what they had to say and I found the same tips on several of these websites:
Nope, nope and nope. So much for that approach.
I’ve booked a fair amount of airfare over the years and always try to get the best price for the flights I wanted. At first I used a program called Easy SAABRE (anybody else remember that one?), that linked into the same system used by travel agents to book flights. I remember the amazement in my travel agent’s voice when I would call her and feed her the flights I wanted to take and told her what the price should come out to be.
Alas, the days of IBM PC computers, 2400 baud modems and airlines changing fares once a week are long gone. Now prices can change from one second to the next, depending if there’s a change of any one of many factors that go into the formula the airline uses to set their price.
So how do you beat the system?
