Deals for This Weekend - January 10, 11

If you're looking for a quick getaway this weekend, that doesn't break the budget, have a look at a few of these Secret Saver hotels.  

If you have kids, these rates will work with 2 adults with 2 children.

I am highlighting 1 bargain rate hotel in each city.

These rates are booking through Expedia.com.au, for this Friday and Saturday nights, January 10-11, 2014.  

Adelaide
4.5* $346 for this weekend

Auckland
4.5* $297 for this weekend  

Brisbane
4.5* $368 for this weekend 

Gold Coast
4* $412 for this weekend 


Melbourne
4.5* $382 for this weekend

Perth
4.5* $307 this weekend

Sydney 
3.5* $487 this weekend

Deals for This Weekend - January 3, 4

If you're looking for a quick getaway this weekend, that doesn't break the budget, have a look at a few of these Secret Saver hotels.  

If you have kids, these rates will work with 2 adults with 2 children.

I am highlighting 1 bargain rate hotel in each city.

These rates are booking through Expedia.com.au, for this Friday and Saturday nights, January 3-4, 2014.  

Adelaide
4.5* $355 for this weekend

Auckland
4.5* $263 for this weekend  

Brisbane
4* $253 for this weekend 

Gold Coast
4* $336 for this weekend 


Melbourne
4.5* $432 for this weekend

Perth
4.5* $346 this weekend

Sydney 
3.5* $388 this weekend

Holiday Report US West Coast: Part 1 - Los Angeles to Las Vegas

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Bindi and I have been able to see lots of places that we could never have afforded to, if it were not for using points, or at least defraying the cost by searching out bargain fares on flights or hotels.  

We've been spending some time in Panama of late.  So we started our trip from there.

In September we converted Delta 35,000 points each, to travel up to visit my family in Ohio, and then from there to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary by driving and touring the US West Coast.  

My Cousin Who Lives in Africa, Was Also Visiting Ohio

Delta allows you to have a stopover at 1 location, and then another flight to an entirely different destination, when redeeming award tickets.  Effectively, you're getting 2 trips, for the price of 1 redemption. 

So we flew from Panama to Ohio, then later to California, and finally back to Panama at the end.  All for 35,000 points. 

We had decided to visit Las Vegas, the Napa Valley, and drive south along Highway 1, since these are places we've always wanted to see.

Holiday Report US West Coast: Index

• Part 1 - Los Angeles to Las Vegas
• Part 2 - Las Vegas to San Francisco
• Part 3 - Napa Valley
• Part 4 - Highway 1

Deals for This Weekend

If you're looking for a quick getaway this weekend, that doesn't break the budget, have a look at a few of these Secret Saver hotels.  

If you have kids, these rates will work with 2 adults with 2 children.

I am highlighting 1 bargain rate hotel in each city.

These rates are booking through Expedia.com.au, for this Friday and Saturday nights, December 27 - 28, 2013.  

Adelaide
4.5* $385 for this weekend

Auckland
4.5* $263 for this weekend  

Brisbane
4.5* $246 for this weekend 

Gold Coast
Nothing available

Melbourne
Nothing available  

Perth
4.5* $320 this weekend

Sydney 
4.5* $337 this weekend

Deals for This Weekend

If you're looking for a quick getaway this weekend, that doesn't break the budget, have a look at a few of these Secret Saver hotels.  As always, there must be a few hotels hoping to fill up, since weekends are their lowest earning days.  Save some money yourself while having a nice weekend away.  

If you have kids, these rates will work with 2 adults with 2 kids.

I am highlighting 1 bargain rate hotel in each city.

I'll also include Auckland for the Kiwi readers.  

These rates are booking through Expedia.com.au, for this Friday and Saturday nights, December 20-21, 2013.  

If this is of help to you I might just make it regular thing, so please let me know what you think!

3 Ways That a Mystery Can Save You a Fortune - Part 2

Mystery, Unpublished, or Secret Saver hotels can save you hundreds of dollars, as we discussed in an earlier post.  I wish I could say that every Mystery hotel we've gotten was great!  A couple were...not that great at all.  However they were cheaper by far than anything we would have paid for actual advertised prices, particularly in small towns.  So in that case we felt we got a bargain, since we saved at least $20 or $30/night by booking a Mystery hotel for the 1 night we were passing through a town.

Our Dallas, Texas, $45/Night Mystery Hotel - A Fair Deal

But if you have just 5 or 10 minutes extra there is a way to come very close, or even exactly know, which hotel you're going to get. 

3 Ways That a Mystery Can Save You a Fortune - Part 1

In a recent post we discussed all the tricks to getting last minute hotels for bargain prices.  Hopefully you're using those tricks to find some bargains for wherever you're going this month or next!  For some people, booking last minute accommodation is daring, edgy, even scary; but after doing it once or twice you'll find it's not that big a deal. 

Our Hotel in Minneapolis - $756 Saved!

You can save 10%, 20%, 30%, even 50% or more by booking last minute.  Now, it does carry risk.  You might not get to stay where you wanted.  But you might get to stay somewhere even better! 

However, now we need to talk about an even bigger tip.  How can a mystery save you a fortune? 

Use Expedia to Save BIG with the Upcoming Holidays!

Some folks plan things well in advance.  Others don't like to, or don't have the time to plan as well.  My wife, Bindi, and I try to plan our trips in advance, and lots of the time we do.  But sometimes we just have to book last minute.  And we hate having to pay extra because of that!  Airlines tend to sting you the most when you book last minute with them. 

But did you know that booking last minute award flights (flights booked paying with points) are sometimes the biggest bargains?  We'll cover that in another post soon.

But what about hotels?  Are they more expensive when booked last minute?  If you think so, you could be wrong!