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Travel Tips
Visit the free Playbill Club to get half-price theater tickets in New York and other U.S. cities without standing in line or waiting to buy tickets the day of the performance.
Visit SmugMug.com from any internet café to upload your pictures while you’re on your trip if your camera’s memory card becomes full. The site offers unlimited photo-storage space for a modest amount.
Visit TripIt.com to store your travel confirmations and display or print a comprehensive and detailed itinerary.
Visit Smarter Travel, a good resource for all travelers.
Visit the U.S. Department of State Office of Allowances for travel costs at locations across the globe.
Visit Unusual Villa Rentals for villas to rent with other couples in the tropics.
Visit Home Link International or intervac.com or HomeExchange.com for services to facilitate swapping your home or apartment with another family in another city to allow your family to travel in the least expensive way.
Air Travel
Visit Kayak.com to search air fares from different carriers and online travel agencies. The web site gives you some handy search tools. If you go to only one travel search site, make it Kayak. It presents to you not just the deals offered at such big online travel agents as Orbitz and Expedia but also those from dozens of other travel sites and airlines that many tools miss. One valuable feature of Kayak is that it shares the deals its users have found on your route. If you can adjust your itinerary to match their dates, you may get the cheaper fare.
Visit FareCompare.com for historical fare information that can help guide your travel choices.
Visit AirlineConsolidator.com or United States Air Consolidators Association for consolidator offers for cheap coach tickets.
Visit Yapta.com to track the price of your flight and get an e-mail if it drops enough that rebooking makes sense, even with penalty fees.
Cruises
Visit CruiseCritic.com for port, itinerary and cruise ship critiques and suggestions.
Visit ShoreTrips.com for information about shore trips offered at ports. Prices can be lower and the trips longer than what the cruise ship offers.
