This STA Travel card can save you a fortune

First the offer: Save $100s, Spend $22

Okay, that’s not really a well-written offer, but these are students for chrissake. Here’s the thing though, this is one of the best offers you are going to find if you are an independent traveler. Assuming you are a student, young person, or a teacher (one way or another) you can get one of these cards for $22 and then save a truckload of money using STA Travel.

They have some pretty decent deals as it is, but ... [Read this entry]

Attention New York-bound travelers!

There is an intriguing new offer I’ve just come across, which could be excellent for first time visitors to the Big Apple - A brand new way to see New York: New York Pass

The deal is this: you buy this New York Pass thing in advance, and you have up to a year to activate it. When you do, you get prepaid admission into nearly every major tourist attraction in the city. A one-day pass is $65 and for a two-day pass it’s $95, and $20 ... [Read this entry]

Cool Capitals, Cool Site

If you had unlimited time to spare in life and nothing better to do, you could spend all your waking hours exploring travel Web sites and you still wouldn’t find all of them. There are a lot of sites on the Web, some good, some bad and some somewhere in between. The challenge isn’t finding them, of course. The challenge is finding the ones that are useful and good.

One site that I recently stumbled upon that has a lot of potential is Cool Capitals. Its current focus is ... [Read this entry]

How to Find the Best Travel Deals using Popular Search Engines

The Internet has revolutionized the way in which we find airline tickets, hotels and vacation packages. Back in the old days, you had to trudge on over to your local travel agent and wait for them to come up with the prices on your various options. It was time consuming and often you ended getting deals that benefited the travel agents more than they benefited you.

These days anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can be their own travel agent. If you are reading this post, I’m going to ... [Read this entry]

Farecast: The Science of Predicting Airline Ticket Pricing

Who hasn’t had this happen before? You scour the Web to find the best price on an airline flight and you purchase the ticket. A couple of days later you happen to find out that the same ticket on the same flight is being sold for $100 less or $100 more. How is that possible? How can you make sense of it all?

On the surface, airline ticket pricing seems to be an exercise in randomness. Airlines seemingly change their prices at a whim. This leads to ... [Read this entry]

Win a Free Trip to Anchorage, Alaska

The average high temperature in Anchorage, Alaska in December is 23.7 degrees. That sounds brutal until you learn that the average high temperature in January is 22.2 degrees and the average low temperature is 9.3 degrees. You have to be a hearty soul to appreciate that kind of weather or someone who wouldn’t mind a free trip to a beautiful part of the world.

You can experience Anchorage in the winter by entering and winning a contest that offers two free tickets from Alaska Airlines, three night’s accommodations in Alaska’s largest ... [Read this entry]

Up to the minute Airport information provided by YOU

The power is in your hands, fellow traveler. Looking for information about airport delays, traffic and parking, taxi lines, and whether or not the Cinnabon is fresh at your local airport? Consider using the new traveler update service from Orbitz.

Traveler Update is a new service which invites travelers to share real-time information about the nation’s top airports. Additionally, the site includes historical security wait times from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), up-to-the-minute flight information from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), OrbitzTLC air traffic alerts and other reliable traffic and weather information.

This ... [Read this entry]

Belize Airfare Deals

Ask the average person to start naming the countries in Central America and there is a good chance that they will miss Belize. There is a reason for this. It is a small country that has rarely ever been in the news. It is not a country that has undergone conflict and outside of the occasional hurricane, it has been largely spared from the disasters that have hit other countries in the region.

Belize also may escape the mind because linguistically it is different from the rest of Central America. ... [Read this entry]

Save now on your 2007-2008 Ski Vacations

Imagine what it must have been like to have been the first person to slap some wood on his feet and to propel himself down a side of a mountain. The thrill must have been something. According to the experts at Wikipedia, there’s evidence that skiing existed as far back as 5,000 years ago. That means for 5,000 years people have been shredding powder, running into trees and tearing up knees all in the name of the ski adrenaline rush.

The sport has progressed a lot since those ancient times. ... [Read this entry]

An Amazon to the Andes Adventure Trip

The physical landscape of South America is like a tent. It is steep at the top and falls off quickly to the sides. The Andes are the defining feature of the continent. The mountains shape the way people live, they shape weather patterns and they will shape the way you will travel through South America.

BootsnAll has an outstanding 12-day Amazon to Andes adventure tour that offers a fascinating glimpse into both highland and lowland Peru. The trip begins and ends in the capital Lima. From there it ... [Read this entry]