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Travel

I have some information to share with all of you. These tips and tricks are from my experiences and it could save you some money. Good luck!!

Airline Tickets

Airline tickets are cheaper these days. To get the most out of it, you should compare prices from various web sites such as Expedia.com, Travelocity.com, and Orbitz.com. You can try bidding airline tickets from Priceline.com or buy tickets from Hotwire.com but I don't reccomend if you don't have any friend at the destination (free stay and car) because you will not know the departure time. Eventhough, you could get the lowest price

Tips for Expedia.com
To get the most resonable prices when you search air fares, please follow these steps:
- At the top navigator bar, click Flights menu (If you search prices from the main page of expedia, fare results might be a little bit higher)
- Looks at the left hand side of the web. You should see some links such as Fare Compare, Fare Calendar, and etc.
- Search prices from the Fare Compare link or Fare Calendar link. It works for me most of the times

Tips for Travelocity.com
Don't know where to go?? Travelocity has a dream map of air fare of your price ranges.
- At the top of the web page, click Flights.
- At the left hand side of the web, click I'm on a budget! Where can I go?
- Change the Departure City located at the laft hand side of the page to Chicago and change Maximum fares per traveler and then click update map.
- The prices you see are not included Taxes and sometimes the prices go up. The total prices are similar to those of Expedia.com offers but at least you might get some ideas of where you might want to go.

Car Rental

The best thing to do is to search and compare car rental rates from major car rental companies. Hotwire.com and Priceline.com are webs that you should pay attention to. I usually checks rates from Hotwire.com and bid rental car from Priceline.com. For example, if Hotwire.com offers $20 per day, I would bid $15-$17 at Priceline.com. Biding car rental is not like biding air ticket. What you want is the size of the car with the most reasonable rate!! If you want to rent a car from the car rental web site, try these codes...(you may combine online code with other coupon discounts)

Here are some online codes:

ALAMO (I.D. #):
675899 and Rate Code: BY (Costco)
693798 and Rate Code: 5K (American Express)

AVIS (AWD #):
D002807 - 5-20% in US and Canada and Europe - Amateur Sports Assistance Program (ASAP) discount - the best one of this bunch most of the time
K312601 (American Express)
B900000 (generic AAA code)
B790000 (Entertainment Book)
A108325 or A108300 (Costco) includes extra driver at no cost - about 5% discount or so

BUDGET (BCD #):
X474200 (Travelocity - should bring up a 15% discount. THe code is subject to blackout dates).
W852802 (Costco)
X251000 (Smarter Living)

HERTZ (CDP #):
000004 (AAA-Auto Club of Southern California)
336436 (Costco)
205521 (Entertainment Book)
1244828 (Smarter Living)
321739 (Alaska Airlines) 1181885 (Aloha Airlines) 217692 (American Airlines)
391867 (Continental Airlines) 165385 (Delta Air Lines) 1241216 (Frontier Airlines)
1037681 (Hawaiian Airlines) 384989 (Midwest Express) 269339 (Northwest Airlines)
205418 (Southwest Airlines) 62455 (United Airlines) 157348 (US Airways)

THRIFTY (PC #):
5512 (AAA Discount Code)

NATIONAL (CONTRACT I.D. #):
5042902 (American Express - 5% to 15% discount)

Other Related Web Sites

Biddingfortravel.com Please read and learn from this web. There are hundreds of forums of Airline ticket, Car Rental, and Hotel that you can find tips, ask questions, and etc..

Smarterliving.com Travel Deals and Discounts

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