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Budget travelers are always looking for ways to save money when they venture out into the world – and smart budget travelers know that sometimes booking a vacation package is the best way to do just that. Anytime there’s a big event – in this case, I’m talking about the World Cup – the travel industry comes out in force to provide more vacation package options than you can shake a stick at, and many of them look really tempting. But are they really the great deal the ads say they are?

Vacation packages make travel shopping easy, it’s true – you get everything booked for your trip in one fell swoop. Vacation prep, done and dusted. But they’re counting on you thinking like that instead of stepping back for a moment to compare package prices with what it would cost to book each piece of the deal individually. Unfortunately, as boring as this might sound, it’s exactly what you need to do to make sure you’re actually going to save money by booking the package.

In the end, if the convenience factor means more to you than the budget factor, then a package might still be the way to go regardless of the savings (or lack thereof) – but this is definitely something to be aware of when you’re shopping around.

>> The next World Cup events are: Women’s World Cup in 2011, Men’s World Cup in 2014

There isn’t really any reason not to travel during this time of economic crisis. Actually, there are a lot of reasons to travel! Most (if not all) airlines offer a lot of deals, making sure they fill their airplanes.

We’ve been preparing you for your trip to see the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 with a series of articles this past week, and rather than risk you missing one of them – and thereby missing valuable information – we wanted to gather them all in one place so you could find them easily.

So consider this your “table of contents,” if you will, to our 2010 Olympics travel tips.

But along with links to the other articles already written in this series, you’ll also find a few things you should know about flying to Vancouver for the Olympics at the bottom of this article – it’s stuff you may already be aware of, but it’s worth taking a look just in case.

Whether you love Vegas or hate it, or hate to love it and love to hate it like I do, Las Vegas has certainly been home to some jaw-dropping amazing travel deals lately. As one of the cities that’s been hardest hit by the economic recession (conventions that were once constant in the city have slowed way down and leisure travelers have stopped coming in such large numbers), Las Vegas has been struggling to fill up its hundreds of thousands of hotel rooms lately. This means that many of these Vegas hotels are offering up super steep discounts, offering great promotions and even giving away huge resort credits when you book a room, all in an effort to attract more people to Sin City. Las Vegas Vacation Deals
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When we look back on recent history in a hundred years, we will probably divide time into “pre-internet revolution” and “post-internet revolution.” This not entirely unlike how we now look at history in terms of pre and post Industrial Revolution.

The internet has changed how we do almost everything—how we connect to and communicate to others, how we post classifieds, how we do research, how we travel and more. We are now in an era where booking travel online seems to be about the only way to do it these days. But with the dawn of the internet and Web 2.0, it can be pretty easy to get lost in all the noise out there and be left wondering how you actually go about finding the best travel deals online. Here are a few tips on how to get the best airfares, cheapest hotel rooms and discounted vacation packages using the web:

You may have dismissed Twitter as yet another online space for blatant self-promotion, but it turns out there is a whole lot more use for Twitter than simply keeping up to date on what Lindsay Lohan ate for breakfast or where Ashton Kutcher woke up this morning. Twitter can also be a powerful tool used for saving money and scoring travel deals. It may even change how exactly you go about making your travel plans.

For example, discount carrier JetBlue has a twitter feed which only announces deals on last-minute flights every Monday—and they aren’t the only airline who has started offering up special fares and promotions via Twitter. (Follow @JetBlueCheeps for the weekly deals)

The greatest part about finding travels on Twitter? You can choose your level of participation on the social networking site. Don’t feel like sending your daily thoughts out into Twitterland? Than simply choose to follow sites and companies that offer up deals via Twitter and check the site exclusively when you are on the prowl for travels deals or in the midst of planning your next vacation. No tweets about your life necessary.

Temperatures may be getting cooler outside, but deals on Caribbean vacations just keep heating up. With summer quickly fading, the leaves starting to change and fall officially making its arrival, prices in the Caribbean just keep getting cheaper. In fact, some prices on all-inclusive vacations have gotten so low, you’ll be practically SAVING money with all the included food and drinks at buffets and bars.

Cheap Caribbean is offering sale prices on some Caribbean getaways that start as low as $249 per person for 4 nights PLUS air. Yes, some of these vacation packages are really that cheap. In fact, Cheap Caribbean is offering savings up to 75% regular prices, making it possible to get rock-bottom prices on vacations to a variety of beautiful (and warm) locales in the Caribbean. SALE SEARCH Find your PERFECT vacation at an UNBEATABLE price