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Fifty Tips for Planning an Affordable Trip to Ireland from $60 a Day

A sweeping checklist of incredible breadth and depth to help you pinch those pennies for another pint and get more for your vacation dollar on the Emerald Isle.

Article / Family & Kids

Offpeak, C'est Magnifique! Budget Packager Adds Gay Paree to its Ever-Growing Roster. Prices Start at Just $399

We were the first to introduce you to Rodney Ezrapour's online-only powerhouse of budget-minded vacations, Offpeak Traveler, way back in July last year when he began offering those…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Dive into this Sea of Savings: A Caribbean Conscription of Resorts, Villas and Inns to Choose from

Here's another savory sampler that'll make you to get down to the tropics and to warm up on the beach, with prices that should make you want to jump out of your parkas and into your…

Article / Family & Kids

Snow 'Em How It's Done! Winter Packages for Cheapskates

Skiing in the Rockies is poles apart from that in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. However, prices are often about the same in many cases. You can get by, very nicely indeed, for about $80…

Article / Outdoor & Adventure

Go To the Dogs, I Say! You Mushn't Miss Out on Alaska's Iditarod

For racing fans, dog lovers and snow bunnies, the Iditarod race is a chance to combine three pleasures at once. You'll meet the mushers as they draw their starting numbers for the big…

Article / Family & Kids

Heart-Shaped Box: Splurgeworthy Valentine's Getaways at Luxury Hotels and Inns in London, Boston and Maine

Love is never cheap, or shouldn't be, but there are still ways to spread the love and let your significant other know your relationship is special without breaking your bank. Who…

Article / Family & Kids

Canadian Combos: Toronto's Tourism Boards Promotes Plenty O' Packages for Late Winter Savings

Toronto the Good's third annual getaway scheme conjures up price-cutting on hotels, theater tickets, entrance fees to museums and other attractions, dinners and more through March 31,…

Article / Family & Kids

Are You Gonna Eat That? The Best Chefs, the Best Food, the Best Prices: Restaurant Week Returns for a Bumper Crop of Cities

Food, glorious food! Some people can't get enough of sports, some clothes, others trash TV. Me? Give me the chance to cook, eat, discuss or read about food, and I'm happy. Thus, I'm…

Article / Family & Kids

Sixty-five Tips for Planning an Affordable Trip to the Big Apple from $90 a Day

Here's where you'll find everything you need to know to handle the practical details of planning your trip in advance--airlines and area airports, a calendar of events, resources for…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Viva la Savings! You'll Find January-only Discounts at this Family-Friendly, All-Inclusive Mexican Resort

One of my favorite places to save money, the Viva Resort chain, is running monthlong special at its Puerto Vallarta property, the Viva Vallarta, located in the Vallarta Bay…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

From as Low as $899, You Can Spend a Lazy, Beachy Week in a French Polynesian Paradise

Originally planned as a January-only special, Tahiti Vacations is now selling its weeklong packages to the utopias of Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora for travel all the way through March.…

Article / Family & Kids

Look Ma, No Hills! Consider a Cross Country Skiing Trip--Good For the Whole Family and Eminently Affordable

Watching skiers much of my life (but flunking out on the slopes, myself), I've always considered the cross-country folks a hardier breed than those just schussing downhill. Now comes…

Article / Family & Kids

Mom! Can Eddie Go to Florida With Us? The Slippery Issue of Allowing Your Child to Invite A Friend on Your Family Vacation

Bob Sehlinger waxes parental with advice on how to handle a potentially sticky situation.

Article / Family & Kids

Orlando on the Cheap--And How! A Family of Four Can Sleep from Under $30 a Night!

"Wow!" is all we can say. Harris Rosen, budget hotelier in the City the Mouse Built, decided to do it again. Last year, when the world was still reeling from the shock of September 11…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Queue Up for the QE2: Terrific Twofers in the South Seas

If you hurry, you may get a cabin on the world's most famous ship, the QE2, at prices up to 50% off for a cruise from Hawaii to Tahiti on January 24, 2003. While space remains, rates…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Big Island, Small Prices: A Roundup of Reduced Rooms in Hawaii, Rental Cars Included

If you like real-life characters, you'll love William Kimi, aka Uncle Billy. He owns and operates two hotels down on the Big Island, along with a general store and a restaurant or two,…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Escape the Frio Down in Rio: Five Nights Starts From $599

Once a shipping backwater during Brazil's 18th-century gold rush, Rio de Janeiro developed into a prime competitor with the best of European capitals after Prince João arrived from…

Article / Family & Kids

Deck the Mall With Boughs of Holly: We Urge You to Consider Our Nation's Capital for the Holidays

It's not too late to plan a getaway to the national's capital before St. Nick's arrival. Rumor has it he's a wiz at navigating the fire escapes of D.C.'s hotels, which are atypically…

Article / Family & Kids

Sleepyhead Stopover for Free, Rooms from $49

This must surely be a first! Baymont Inns & Suites is offering free coffee or bottled water 24 hours a day, seven days week to anyone who stops and asks for it, regardless of…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Don't Be Waylaid by Hawaii's High Prices: Hanalei Makes the Lei Weigh Lightly on Your Wallet

To counter some grumbling about Hawaii's often higher prices, savvy entrepreneurs like the Hanalei Colony Resort, on Kauai, are offering discounted rates, such as their six-week winter…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Dive into this Deal: A Week in the Caribbean for Under a Grand Including Lodging and Daily Underwater Excursions

Those nice people at Grenada's absolutely charming Blue Horizons Cottage Hotel have teamed up with a bunch of aquanauts to create a good value-for-money dive package that looks…

Article / Family & Kids

Two Ski Packages to Canada: One Tres Cher, the Other Quite Fair

Mount Tremblant is Quebec's premier ski resort, and the ultra swank Fairmont Hotel there is considered the most fashionable place to stay, if you can afford it. The mountain has been…

Article / Beach & Water Sports

Everything's Just Beachy with These Family-Friendly Caribbean Resorts: Affordable Rates and Freebies Galore

Viva Resorts down in the Caribbean is hauling out its value-added all-inclusive rates and the "Kids Stay, Play and Eat FREE" programs once again, just in time to fight off that winter…

Article / Winter Sports

Tips from the Publisher: Soak Up the Culture in Japan

Japan's Snow Country offers exhilirating cross-country trails and relaxing hot springs and baths.

Article / Family & Kids

Get a Quickie On the Slopes: Lots and Lots of Snow Makes for One-Night Skiing Specials in Sun Valley

It looks like an early winter skiing season in the Northern Rockies this year, and Sun Valley is benefiting from the shower of flaky white. Bald Mountain there lies under several feet…