Maybe you’re looking at the calendar and the space between you and your next big chunk of vacation time is too big to contemplate. Maybe you’re too short on vacation days at work to take any extra days off but you’d still like to plan a short getaway. Maybe you’re just being tempted by that three-day weekend you see coming up. Whatever reason you have for looking for weekend travel deals, we have the tools to help you save money on your weekend trip.
As I write this, summer is right around the corner. If you’re not one of the lucky people planning a long summer vacation, you can still take advantage of the three-day weekends that serve as summer’s bookends – Memorial Day and Labor Day. And this year July 4th falls in such a way as to make that a three-day weekend, too. So it’s the ideal time to be planning weekend travel.
But no matter when you’re looking at planning a weekend trip, there are some things you’ll want to keep in mind – because even if you’re traveling at an otherwise slower time of year you’re still talking about traveling on a weekend, when you’re certainly not the only person planning a trip. The articles linked below will help you find weekend travel deals and save money in general on your weekend getaways.
Some people are content to blindly pick a place on a map and turn it into a weekend vacation destination, and some are even willing to choose the cheapest flight from a list of last-minute weekend travel deals (bags already packed) no matter where it is. But if you’ve got your sights set on a particular destination, then that kind of travel lottery just won’t do.
Anyone who loves to travel dreams of packing a bag and heading off for a long trip – for some, the longer the better – but the reality of work, school, and family schedules means that long trips are often not possible. Rather than give up on the idea of taking a trip altogether, however, an excellent option is to take as many short trips as you can. And what better way to do that than take advantage of all those three-days weekends on the calendar?
Some people see the summer as the perfect excuse to use up all their accrued vacation days and hit the road for as long as possible. Other people prefer to break travel up into smaller bite-sized pieces scattered throughout the year. But even if you fall into the latter camp, it’s hard to resist the siren song of summer travel when there are so many three-day weekends between now and autumn.
Usually about 11am on Tuesday I start thinking about the upcoming weekend, while I watch the seconds tick by at work. Sometimes I even think about being in another location. You know, dreaming of a weekend getaway.