Category: Best Deals
Groupon – The Hottest Money Saving Site Is Now In Hartford, Ct
I just finished reading Forbes’ cover story about Groupon – the fastest growing company EVER when I got a Twitter message asking me to link up with the new Hartford Groupon folks. This is exciting for all of us and I hope the Groupon soon opens up operations in other major Connecticut cities. If you [...]
Hot & Humid? Time to Consider Skiing
It’s a thousand degrees out there. You can fry a leg on the sidewalk. The billboards are doing a Dali, wilting in the ghastly humidity. It must be time to go skiing. Or, at least, to book the ski trip. Planning ahead being always a good thing, vacationroost.com is offering a wide array of skiing [...]
iPhone 4 For Free If You Have iPhone 3GS To Sell Or Trade
As hundreds of thousands of Apple lovers await the release today of the latest and coolest cell phone – iPhone 4 – many are wondering what they can do with their existing iPhone 3g or 3 gs. Well USA Today’s Jefferson Graham has some excellent ideas: Besides giving your old phone to someone, keeping it [...]
Some More Best of the Many Best Lists
There are as many “best of …” lists as there are people to write them; probably, almost as many writing them as reading them. That’s good. It’s important in travel to get as many perspectives as possible, of course. For me, some lists have more clout than others. For example, I like just about anything [...]
Costco And Amazon: Best Deals For Your Money
Shoppers like Ellee Rose of Middletown and Jessica Lyons of West Hartford already know about the great bargains, value and superb customer service you get at Costco and from Amazon.
But it doesn’t hurt to have our (I do the shopping and cooking while my wife does the cleaning) shopping habits supported by two recent studies.
The latest came this month from Consumer Reports, which analyzed the responses from more than 30,000 of its readers and found that Costco and Amazon stood out as great deals for consumers. The world’s largest retail business – Walmart – was way down on the list, despite the fact that people spent $405 billion at its stores last year.
Chances to Redeem Air Miles Getting Slimmer and Slimmer: Southwest Is Best
It’s probably happened to you. Fair and square, you run up a nice number of airline miles from your travels. Then, when you go to redeem them, sorry, there’s no room on the planes. There’s no seats for you on the flights — or any flights that would at all be any good. Or you [...]
Hot Tickets: Take a PASS on City Attraction Prices
Planning a vacation visit to any number of our great cities, it’s possible to be left breathless by the array of choices of must-see things to do — and the expense of doing them. There may be ways to look for less expensive hotels and more reasonable restaurants, but the tourist attraction prices aren’t usually [...]
Man Bites Dog: Airlines Decline fees
Holey moley. Some airlines actually took a pass on nibbling travelers even more. That’s good news. American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, JetBlue Airways and US Airways have declined to follow the annoying lead of Florida-based Spirit Airlines to start charging $45 for larger carry-on items too big to fit under the seat, which [...]
Legroom Now at a Premium as Airlines Expand Fees
Like joking in a TSA line, you don’t want to even make a wisecrack because they just might pick up on it. Should the airlines start charging extra for the air we breathe? Oops. Probably there’s a committee looking into that right now. The latest levy for what was free before is Continental joining JetBlue [...]
Another Helpful Site to Quickly Locate Hotels
Here’s another neat web site to help more easily land a good hotel: roomatlas.com The odd, maybe dumb, irony is that I will spend long hours rattling around the web looking to save $20 on a ticket for a flight that might last a few hours but will too often make too-quick a grab at [...]
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