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Great New Site Notifies You of Ultralow Fares from Your Chosen Airport(s)

“All the Flight Deals” Overcomes the Limitations of Other Sites to Consistently Provide Fantastic Deals, Including Many Flights to Europe for Under $450 Round-trip

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Do you want to travel cheaply without any credit card or mile and point shenanigans? If so, you should check out this great new site: All the Flight Deals. It has consistently provided me with fantastic fares including many from my home airport to Europe for under $450 round-trip.

All the Flight Deals notifies you of the cheapest fares from whatever airport(s) you want to monitor to anywhere in the world. In doing so, it differs in important ways from all the other airfare sites I’m aware of. Consider these differences: (more…)

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Are Lie-flat Business Class Seats Worth It?

Thoughts After My First International Business Class Flights (Which Would Have Cost $17,461 Had I Paid Cash!)

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If you read miles and points blogs, many make it seem as if the pinnacle of travel—if not of life itself—is flying in lie-flat business class or first-class seats. Your travel destination and what you might do there appear, by contrast, unworthy of the consideration of one who, in flight, is able to sample suboptimal caviar.

Sarah reading with her lie-flat business class seat reclined

My wife, Sarah, in our Frankfurt to Denver lie-flat business class seats

Having not flown in lie-flat seats myself, it’s been tough to judge whether such miles and points bloggers believe what they’re preaching or whether they just enjoy the commissions they receive from pushing the greater number of credit cards one must open to accrue enough miles and points to fly business class on an award redemption.

Too sassy?

Well, I finally had the chance to try it out. Here are my down-to-earth thoughts on luxury at 30,000 feet. (See what I did there?) (more…)

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Beating the House on a Vegas Vacation

How to Vacation in Las Vegas Very Inexpensively

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Jerry Seinfeld once said about Las Vegas, “If you were not losing, this would not be a very nice place to be, would it? They wouldn’t have beautiful carpeting and restaurants and wonderful shows. It would be like a POW bunker. . . . The losing pays for the nice hotels.”

Vegas Strip showing several hotels including Paris and Planet Hollywood

You can benefit from the countless billions lost every year in Vegas by using some simple tips to vacation there for a fraction of what other people pay. (more…)

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Easiest Way Ever to Get the Southwest Companion Pass; But Is It a Good Deal?

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As widely reported by travel bloggers, Southwest is offering an unprecedented signup bonus on the personal versions of the Southwest credit card. Specifically, from now through February 11, you can earn 30,000 Southwest miles and the Companion Pass by opening just one credit card.

The Southwest Companion Pass is arguably the best deal in travel. It allows a companion to fly for free with you on any Southwest flights you book. This version of the pass is good from the time you earn it until the end of 2019.

Knowing that I love the Companion Pass, a reader reached out to ask my thoughts.

Although it has never been possible in the past to earn the Companion Pass with such ease, is it a good deal? That depends. For some, it’s a terrific deal. For others, it’s not. Here’s how to decide if it’s a good deal for you:

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4 Steps to Receive Deal Alerts Before Anyone Else

How to Get the Best Deals Before They’re Gone

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Have you ever missed a deal because you were notified about it too late? Maybe the perfect car you’ve been searching for on Craigslist came and went before you had time to act. Or maybe you just keep missing out on free donuts at work. In any case, there is a simple trick that will give you a leg up on the competition.

Getting notified of a deal before everyone else is like getting a head-start in a race.

From free food at work to ultra-cheap flights to a great price on a used car, I find that the best deals are usually gone in a matter of hours, if not minutes. Unless you are glued to your email—which kills productivity—it is easy to miss out.

Fortunately, it’s possible to know about the best deals without watching your email like a hawk. The trick is to set things up so that whenever a deal is sent to you via email, you receive a text message alerting you to the deal.

I have used this trick successfully in many scenarios, and I probably receive two such texts per day with deals I want to know about. As I type this very paragraph, in fact, I was just alerted by text to a deal for $75 round trip flights from my home airport in Denver to New York. If I wanted, I could take advantage of that deal before most anyone else was even aware of its existence.

The four steps to being the first to know about a deal are: (more…)