Budget Travel
How Can You Travel for $100 or Less a Day? Get a Cruise Deal.
Cruise lines would like to see booking windows expand again and some are incentivizing it. Virgin Voyages, which operates in the Caribbean and Mediterranean, is offering 10 percent off bookings made 180 days or more in advance, and five percent off those more than 120 days out. High-end ships are filling up Luxury ocean, river […]
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Getting the Most Bang for Your Buck While Traveling Overseas
For American travelers heading abroad, the growing strength of the dollar is the upside of a volatile economy. Currently, the exchange rate with the euro is about $1.04, meaning each 100 euros will cost about $104. One euro was worth about $1.22 this time last year. The present rate is down significantly from its high […]
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The Dream of the Open Road Collides With the Reality of $5-a-Gallon Gas
Gas prices have risen nearly every day since our trip began on May 12. According to AAA’s tracker, the national average hit $5 a gallon on Saturday. We had no choice but to adapt to the high prices, and in retrospect I think that was for the best. Instead of hitting museums and cool restaurants […]
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These New Low-Cost Airlines (Might) Offer Deals
This spring, the Icelandic airline Play began flying between the United States and Iceland. Service has already started between Baltimore and Boston to Reykjavík, with continued flights to Dublin, Prague and nearly two dozen European cities. Flights to and from New York Stewart International Airport, an hour’s drive from Manhattan in New Windsor, N.Y., are […]
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Vacation Alternatives for the Budget-Conscious
The sprawl of strip malls that comprises Houston’s Chinatown, for example, is the only tip-off that you’re still in Texas. These days restaurants serving Chinese, Hong Kong, Vietnamese, Thai and other Asian cultures fill these shopping plazas. If you’re looking to channel France, go no farther than the cafes and green markets of Montreal, including […]
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Should You Subscribe to Your Next Vacation?
Promising luxury for less Many subscriptions cater to those looking for luxury. Consider Exclusive Resorts, which charges a one-time initiation fee of $175,000 for a 10-year membership, and then makes its 350-plus global portfolio of luxury vacation homes available for stays at $1,465 a night at places that it says often start at around $4,000. […]
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How to Travel on a Budget Amid Inflation
Renting a vacation home Strong demand for short-term rentals has pushed prices up. Rentals are up 27 percent at Hawaii Life, a brokerage service with 320 rentals across the Hawaiian Islands, now averaging $490 a night. HomeToGo.com, a rental company, said the average price for a unit in the United States is up about 10 […]
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K.O.A. Goes After the Luxury Market
The other take is our property Terramor in Bar Harbor, Maine. We saw people looking for unique ways of experiencing the outdoors, and not everyone is interested in traditional camping. We always felt the place where Terramor sits, which was a former K.O.A. campground, had something really special about it. We don’t call it glamping. […]
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How Rising Fares and Airline Industry Changes Could Affect Your Next Trip
Two smaller American carriers that launched last year, Breeze and Avelo, are fine-tuning their operations. Avelo, which launched with point-to-point flights on the West Coast from Burbank, Calif., recently added a new East Coast base in New Haven, Conn., with several destinations in Florida and flying as far west as Chicago. In April, the flight […]
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