Quite possibly one of the only reasons to pick one hotel over another is because of their beds… a bad night’s rest is reason enough never to return to a hotel chain regardless of price. So wouldn’t it be useful if someone listed all the types of beds in each of the major US hotel chains? Wouldn’t it be helpful to know that the Radisson is planning on replacing over 90,000 of their beds with the new Select Comfort Sleep-Number mattresses?
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Welcome my neighbors to the North! I am honored to have been featured in Canada.com’s Virtually There blog on May 17th (though I’m a little late in realizing it) and I’d like to take a minute to say hello and give you a warm welcome to my site.
Also, to those of you who didn’t come here from Canada.com’s Virtually There blog, compiled by Cathy Boucek, I invite you to check it out. It’s not focused on Canada, it’s a “daily look at quirky travel news stories, off-beat articles and useful travel links.” So am I quirky, off-beat, or useful? 
Until recently, the only way for you to find cheap gas was to rely on luck and try to remember where the cheapest gas was. Then came a great little site called Gas Buddy that I talked about at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity. Then someone coupled that site with Google Maps, quite possibly the coolest online mapping site with their use of AJAX technology, to create Cheap Gas. Now it seems, AAA has joined the mix and I discovered, through a CNN Money article, that AAA members will have access to “AAA Fuel Price Finder.” AAA Fuel Price Finder’s data comes from credit card transactions (collected by OPISnet.com) - not volunteered information like at Gas Buddy! This means accurate updates and more frequent updates - another perk for AAA members.
Also, here are some good driving tips to help you save precious gas!
In a CNNMoney article it was reported that half of Americans are surrendering eight or more days of vacation a year! This data was culled from records from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics by Universal Orlando Resort - so I doubt they’d be skewing the data in any way. Newark, NJ topped the list with the most surrendered days and Sacramento, CA with the least.
This is a tactic I’ve been using ever since I set foot in a hotel room - take the soaps, shampoos, and conditions from hotel rooms. Partially it’s my frugal nature, I’ve paid for it and it’s mine; partially I don’t want to waste it (especially when I’ve only stayed one night); and partially because I know that if I go on a trip where I’ll need travel sized toiletries it would be convenient to keep around. I don’t see the logic in going to a CVS or RiteAid and paying money for something that I would throw out any other day. So next time you stay in a hotel, just keep the toiletries and if you look in your closet and find a million bottles of shampoo… maybe it’s time you should take a vacation.
What’s the best part about going to Vegas besides the shows, the gaming, the clubs, the women (and men), the thirty minute weddings, the bufetts, the freebies and the comps? The great hotel rooms! The common strategy for folks who travel to Vegas and intend on staying a week is to spend the weekend nights in an older, middle of the Strip, hotel and the weekday nights in the newer, end of the Strip, hotels. In a recent trip to Las Vegas, my party spent the weekends at Bally’s and the weekdays at Mandalay Bay - and when you’re spending a week there, you’ll find the weekdays are just as rowdy as the weekends in Las Vegas. This strategy is great except now you have to search for the best prices on hotels for the weekdays and then once again on the weekends - then book them both. This is where Travelaxe comes into play.
CNN ran a story in its travel section today giving readers some good tips on how to get into the most popular restaurants without getting a reservation four years in advance (well, really only two months). The article itself is a little basic and never talks about greasing any palms, which may be a relief for frugal people like myself.
If you have ever used Priceline, you know that their process is a little tricky and if you aren’t careful - you could end up in a roach motel. Well, here is where BiddingForTravel will be an eternal lifesaver for all you Priceline addicts out there. Since Priceline isn’t about to give you a list of their four stars in each city and they aren’t going to tell you which lowball bids were accepted for what flights, you’ll need to rely on BiddingForTravel’s loyal users to provide this knowledge through their own experiences.