Hotels.com offering pillowcase with your favorite photo on it
Kinda weird, yes. Hotels.com now offers it’s customers the ability to upload or email a photo of anyone or anything (here comes a load of debate and lawsuits I guess), and the company will send over a pillowcase with your photo on it to the hotel you’re staying in. Does that sound fun?
via Travel In Light.
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7 Cheapest ways to travel
Independent Traveler, an always great source for hot travel deals and tip, have published an article about the seven cheapest ways to travel, from couch surfing, to low season travels, cruise and others. Read the full article for all the details
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Why Travel Now?
Why would anyone choose to travel now instead of the summer travel season? I my self have just gotten back from Istanbul and could easily tell one of the reasons. There is simply no one there. That means by it self several things. For a start it means the city is less crowded, and so are the main tourist attractions. Isn’t it disappointing when you spend thousands of dollars to visit some historic or main attraction, only to be blocked and time wasted by the heavy crowd infront of you? Not only do you enjoy more freedom when traveling now, but you will have less headache in all your ticket, bookings, tour reservations, as they’re likely hunting for customers. We basically booked in the early morning for a hotel pick-up tour that starts at 8:30 AM.
Another reason is, less demand means less price. You are likely to get better rates for all your travel expenses, thus saving extra. The only drawback for people who hate it is the cold winter season. For me it’s an added value actually.
The Independent Traveler have compiled a more detailed list of 10 reasons why it is wise to travel now. What’s your preference?
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12 ways for discounted rates
Newsday have published an article showing 12 ways you go out for discounted travel rates, saving you some of the extra burden. Some of my favorite tips in short are:
- Check sites compiling travel deals, perhaps even subscribe for their newsletter.
- Check with big travel sites for hot offers and deals
- Check for discounted tours and cruises.
- Work backward. See what’s a good and cost-effective destination rather than seek offers for pre-determined destination. You never know where you could end up and see.
And then, I would also add to the list using hotel and ticket comparison sites, such as our 7ojozat.com for hotels, and Mobissimo, dohop, or Fly.com for air ticket price.
For the 12 tips in details, see Newsday.
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Home Rental or Swap Vs Hotels
In the age of the economic crisis, it is becoming more and more important to make saves on your travel, if you can at all afford it. Recently, it has become more popular it seems to swap homes or lease them, rather than swallow the high cost of hotel rooms whichs the extra cost of daily home service, and everything else that goes with it.
I have personally found it both money saving, and more relaxing to lease apartment as we traveled in a small group, bot I guess the option of a house for a larger family would make sense as well.
Read this article by Los Angeles Times about the home swap and rental service, and how does it compare to hotel one.
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44 Selected Destinations for 2009
The New York Time have compiled a list of the 44 top selected destinations for the year of 2009 from all around the world. You can filter out your destination peference as well by category.
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Discounts on your interest, not milage!
Alaska Airlines seems to be taking a new path in their way of offering customer discounts. Rather than traditional milage discounts, Alaska Airlines are seeking new innovate and more personal discounts, such as discounts on your birthday or based on your personal interests. Alaska Airlines is also investigating new ways to make traveler’s experience better in case of travel cancellation, like last Christmas snow storms. Alaska wants travelers to be able to select new flight online rather than through the long ticket counter queue.
Full Article here.
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Travel Photography Tips
Nice quick hints and tips from MSN Travel for your travel photography. Don’t spoil your next trip photos and be ready for it. Read full 2 pages article here.
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