May 24, 2013

3 Hotel Booking Sites You Need to Know About

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Are you planning a trip that will require you and your family to stay in a hotel? If the answer is yes, then here are three websites you need to know about if you want to save money on accommodations during your upcoming family vacation. Take a look: Tingo: Sure, we all book hotel rooms ahead of time to make [...]

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Travel Planning: 7 Pinterest Boards that Can Help

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Pinterest fans, if you’re planning a family vacation, look to the pin boards for tips, advice and help deciding where to go and how to entertain the kids for free or cheap. Here are seven of my go-to Pinterest boards for organizing a family getaway: Free Family Fun: From Amsterdam to Seattle, you’ll find a variety of posts pinned by [...]

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Daily Deal Sites: Not Always Best for Travel Deals

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There’s no question that it pays to do your research before you hop on travel bargains that you find on daily deal websites. Case in point, I was excited this morning to see that Zulily, one of my favorite family daily deal sites, had passes to LEGOLAND Florida on sale at (what I thought was) a 20% discount. As it [...]

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Got Travel Flexibility? 3 Go-To Sites for Great Airfares

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Sure, everyone says to “be flexible” when booking airfares in order to get the lowest prices. But when you have flexibility, how do you find cheap airfares? Here are three of my favorite tools: Kayak: I’ve talked about Kayak before, but I only recently discovered the Explore feature, which plots out on a world map the lowest price to just [...]

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5 Tips to Nab the Perfect Family Home Swap

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We’re planning to do our very first home swap over the summer, exchanging my in-laws’ home in South Florida for a home that will fit the eight of us (me, my husband, our four kids, and my in-laws) in Ireland. We signed up with HomeExchange.com, posted our home profile and I made contact with at least 20 prospects scattered throughout [...]

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5 Must-Visit Sites to Plan Spring Break on a Budget

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Yesterday, I shared with you tips on How to Decide Where Not to Go for Spring Break, and now today I’ve got some of the best sites to bookmark for hot deals and vacation savings once you’ve decided where you actually do want to go for Spring Break with your family. Take a look at a few of my favorites: [...]

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