Hotels - Travel Deals

Regular readers are painfully aware of my recent battle with Sandals resorts. They ended a great promotion last week, I fought to have it extended, and I did it! Click Here to get up to TWO FREE NIGHTS at Sandals Resorts plus Save up to 50% off !

When you click over there you’ll see that I got the “Suiteheart” deal extended until the end of the month. Honestly, I can’t take all the credit. I know many of you played a big role in this victory as well, and I consider us a team and I always have.

People often ask me if there are perks to writing this column. The truth is I often get “insider” information, but I usually can’t write about it here. Well, in this case I can: Expedia Insiders’ Select: The ultimate list of the world’s best hotels and resorts only at Expedia.com!

I’m pretty sure I’m not going to get in trouble for sharing this one, but regular readers of this column know I get in trouble from these travel companies all the time anyway.

I’ve actually stayed in several of the hotels Expedia is now showing on their last-minute section, and I can tell you that many of these are really great deals: Last-Minute Hotel Deals at Expedia.com

They are showing some really low prices on hotels if you are ready to travel in the next two weeks or so. Some of the cities featured are probably good deals because it’s off-season there, but Miami and Orlando are showing some really promising room rates as well.

The time to book an upcoming hotel stay is now, thanks to Expedia and this new deal I just found out about: Free room upgrades in top destinations!

Priceline does it again with this fantastic offer: Priceline.com Hotels - save up to 50%

I’ve done a ton of research on these travel-booking sites and I’ll be honest when I tell you that Priceline is not one of my favorites. But I have to give them credit because they actually have more crazy discounted hotel rooms available than any of the others.

I’m pretty used to finding great travel deals in this job, but this one shocked even me: Save between $20 and $100 on ALL Hotel Bookings Now!

Hotels.com is one of the bigger and more reputable online hotel booking sites, and evidently they are trying to pump up their numbers for January, which is probably a slow month for them. As long as you book in January for travel through the end of March, you qualify for a rebate of between $20 and $100.

Las Vegas is nearly a ghost town in the weeks leading up to Christmas, but right after that the place fills up like Britney Spears at a buffet. The fine folks over at Travelocity have just made visiting Sin City a bit cheaper - Save $100 on 3+ Night Flight + Hotel to Las Vegas when you use your MasterCard - PROMO CODE: VEGAS100

An outfit called Studentcity.com is advertising what looks to be some great spring break specials. They mostly seem to have trips to various hotspots in Mexico, but the Bahamas is listed as well, and there may be more where that came from.

Travelocity has a heckuva sale on now offering a flight to New York City and 3 nights hotel starting at $581. If you’ve checked out hotel prices on their own there you’d know that it’s hard to find anything for under $200 a night regardless, so having a flight thrown in is a pretty sweet deal even if it’s based on double occupancy.

It is overwhelming to think of the myriad vacation options that exist in this world. If you want to go sit on the beach somewhere, there is a beach with your name on it. If you want to take the kids to an amusement park, there is a roller coaster waiting for your fanny to sit in it. If you want to get away with your significant other and spend a week looking deeply into each other’s eyes, there is a significant other with eyes somewhere out there waiting for your gaze.

Funjet Vacations drives this point home with their current Your Vacation, Your Way promotion. With vacation packages for families, romance, adventure travel and luxury, they have some outstanding deals on flights, hotels and stays for popular vacation destinations.

This one size fits all promotion is good until November 22, 2007, so get your plans in place now and you’ll be able to experience a vacation that is just right for you.