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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

World Cruises

World Cruises

Definitely it's not something that you can afford every year, but I must say that if you really wish to do it and you manage to save, it is not that terrible. A world cruise involves many times that you will cruise nearly around the whole globe, and most of the times the package will include flights to the destination where the cruise starts.

World Cruises usually start in 3 different places. A typical point is in the UK, there are also many from the Australia and New Zealand zone and from the west coast of North America, specially from Seattle.

You will be involved in a trip that can last from 40 days and up to some cruises that I have found that are up to 108 days or even more. The price for that 108 days jewel was about 12,000 €, but of course if you take a shorter one you could get an inside cabin for 4,000 € or so. Normally in the price, apart from the flights to the departure point and back home, it will be included all the meals and use of installations on the boat and all shows and entrance to every part of the complex. You will be also entitled to receive lectures on the different places for free.

The only thing that will not be included is travel insurance many times and nearly never the tours in the cities you visit that you can book with external partners.

Again, probably World Cruises are not the kind of stuff you do pretty often, but if one day you have the time and the money, you can discover the world in just a single long trip on a luxury ship!

World Cruises

Friday, January 25, 2008

Last Minute Deals?

Last Minute Deals?

No, thanks. That would be best answer I can give to you. You know, companies need to get benefits, and all the ones that are specialized in last minute flight deals have done a great marketing effort in order to convince some people that booking at the very last moment is beneficial.

Sincerely, let them keep saying that, but avoid booking with them unless it is absolutely impossible to do it in another way (because you decided to take the trip on the last day)

Prices are not going to be cheaper than when planning ahead, and furthermore you have a high risk of having no places at the flight you want to take. Plan ahead, you'll get even a better price than for last minute flights and you will risk nothing.

The worse you can do? An intermediate. Booking between 1 and 2 weeks before your flight is the worse of the situations because you are not taking advantage of reduced fares for booking early and the last minute deals have still not appeared. That's the time when price is higher. It is funny then to know that many of the people you will se on the plane have booked during this period and payed 5 times what you did!

Last Minute Deals?

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Tourism Prices in the Future

Tourism Prices in the Future

Today I'll leave it very short discussing about the topic of future expected prices in the tourism industry. To understand each concept we must separate the accommodation world, as it has existed nearly since we set foot on this planet, and the airlines world, which is something very recent and has a lot to improve still.

If we speak about hotels, I have bad news. The way society is developing makes us every time want more comfort and more luxury. This is seen by hotel owners and investors and every time more luxury resort properties are built and run to make good money. Prices will rise, even if competition lowers them, as they will be always able to make publicity of extreme comfort and services to justify the price.

In the case of the airline industry, I've got good news. Probably in Europe we won't see a big difference because prices are already the lowest they can possibly be, with some flights costing 0.01 Euros if you book early. Instead, in the rest of the World, and specially in North America and the South Pacific there is a lot to do and prices will surely go down.

A plane is seen very differently than a hotel and people want it to be efficient, not a luxury item. They want to go from one place to another for the cheapest price possible, and the most of the people do not care if they've got extra services and luxury. This is the main reason why prices will go down as competence is very high in the sector.

Still, there's a factor that will play hard in the years to come, which is the price of the fuel. I could not make a prediction on how it is going to climb or fall because I feel there are still many secrets hidden below the surface that will soon arise. In any case, we must keep an eye on it to prevent from future unexpected growing in airline prices takes could take us from the back.

After all, we'll always have the opportunity to get nearly free hotels by using Free Travel Certificates.

Tourism Prices in the Future

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Get Free Travel Certificates by Writing Articles

Get Free Travel Certificates by Writing Articles

What would you think if I tell you that if you write 5 articles of about 500 words each you will get a free travel certificates useful for 3 days and 2 nights in deluxe accommodation?

What if I tell you that if you write 10 articles you will get 4 nights at Cancun in Mexico?

And similar things happen for 15, 20 and 25 articles, getting in this last one the possibility to fly with a 90% discount plus 2 hotel nights and the opportunity to stay during 7 nights at a 5 star resort nearly for free.

We agree it sounds good.

This opportunity didn't exist before, but since this Monday it does at Free Travel Certificates

(Tip of the Day: when booking flights, do book the short and cheap ones over the Internet, but book the long trips over the phone and ask thousands of questions in order to get the best deal)

Get Free Travel Certificates by Writing Articles

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Free Flights Travel Certificate

Free Flights Travel Certificate

Today I just wanted to let you know that another travel certificate is available for free, and this time it is covering a 2 persons return flight with an estimated value of $1500. Your costs will be only a $50 tax deposit (if taxes are lower the difference will be refunded) and a $25 redemption fee per person.

This means that by using this certificate you are getting a flight that would normally cost รง$750 per person for just $75. this is exactly a 90% discount. It is valid for all national flights within the US and also for international flights with an extra variable low fee. In any case, the discount will be always of more than 80%.

This certificate is very new and I have still not found any places that offer it for free so I still can't offer it, but if you take a look at Free Hotels, you will see all the travel certificates I offer for free and as soon as I find any place where this new one is available I will quickly add it there.

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If you are planning a trip, you can get some help at Travel to Europe

Free Flights Travel Certificate

Friday, January 11, 2008

Visit Eastern Europe

Visit Eastern Europe

Welcome back after this holidays break on this new edition of Travel to Europe. This Year is going to be again full of hot travel deals, guidance, tips and tricks in order to travel to Europe or around the world cheaper.

Today just some quick guidance to Eastern Europe. You are looking to travel there but you don't really know what to visit in the region. It all depends on the time you have there, in fact.

My recommendation is the following:

1 week trip: You should visit Prague, Krakow and Budapest.

2 weeks trip: Add to this ones Zagreb in Croatia and Bratislava in Slovakia. Take a short trip to the coastal highlights in Croatia.

3 weeks trip: Take the opportunity to add to the ones above the cities of Sofia in Bulgaria, Bucharest in Romania and Belgrade in Serbia.

4 weeks trip: For the ones with a generous boss, I would visit also Warsaw in Poland, Skopje in Macedonia and Sarajevo in Bosnia.

If you want to know which the best connections are and how to organize this trip and activities in the most intelligent and economic way, take a look at Travel to Europe.

If you are looking for 70 to 95% discounted accommodation in Europe you should take a look at Free Hotels.

Visit Eastern Europe