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The Cheapest Days To Fly And 12 More Holiday Travel Tips

The Cheapest Days To Fly And 12 More Holiday Travel Tips

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The Cheapest Days To Fly And 12 More Holiday Travel TipsComplaints about stressful holiday travel are as old as St. Nick himself. Armed with these tips, you’ll be able to pack some holiday cheer (plus unwrapped presents) while en route to grandma’s.

1. Pick the right day to fly.

Busy airports, crazy-high fares, winter weather delays — are you sure you want to do this? The busiest (and most expensive) travel days of the year are around the holidays. You’ll save a lot of stress and a small stocking of cash by picking the right days to fly. We also have handy fare calendars to show you the cheapest day to fly on 1000 popular routes.

2. Rise and shine.

Don’t want to miss the carving of the turkey or the unwrapping of presents? Book the earliest flight you can. Sure, you’ve got to wake up early, but those first flights out are the least […]

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10 Dirty Little Secrets of Hotels

10 Dirty Little Secrets of Hotels

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10 Dirty Little Secrets of HotelsOn average hotels do a much better job of satisfying customers than airlines—a conclusion supported by many surveys and ranking systems. But beating the airlines is a pretty low bar: No modern hotel accommodations are as downright uncomfortable and unpleasant as an economy class airline seat.

Even so, however, many hotels and hotel chains harbor some dirty little secrets they’d prefer to keep under wraps. Some are endemic while others are isolated. Here are a few to you’ll be glad to know.

Mandatory Fees

Mandatory “resort,” “concierge,” “housekeeping,” “porterage,” fees (along with other more esoteric varieties) are the hotel industry’s most active and widespread current scam. Hotel perpetrators slice off a part of the real price, post the remaining low-ball partial price as the basic room rate, give a plausible label to the sliced-off part, and add it back in before you buy. The practice started in Las Vegas and […]

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