Discounts - Travel Deals

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.

A year ago at this time the people in New Orleans were in no mood to party. Their lives had been forever upturned by the forces of Mother Nature. There is no denying that the city still has a long ways to go to recover and one of the chief ways we can all help is to go there and to spend our vacation money. The French Quarter is back in action and my friends who recently spent some time there report that the party scene is still a lot of fun.

New Years in New Orleans has always been a blast and this year should be no exception. Cheap Tickets has a promotion where you can save $75 off your vacation in New Orleans. Save some money so that you can spend it while you are there. You’ll have fun and you’ll do your part to help the Big Easy get back on her glorious feet.

Stuffed in the seat pocket in front of you somewhere in between the barf bag and the Oreos wrappers left behind by the person who sat in your seat on the previous flight, there is usually the SkyMall magazine. If you are like me, you only glimpse at this when you are out of reading material or if you need whack the person next to you with it so that they stop talking about their last “business venture”. Apparently some people actually read it and buy items from it and now you can too. For a limited time you can save 15% off all purchases of over $75. That means you can purchase a nice holiday gift for your special someone, while also still having enough money left over to buy a muzzle for your noisy airplane neighbor.

If the items in SkyMall are not your cup of tea, check out some of the oddities in the SkyMaul.