Travel Mag Offers 105 'Supersmart Strategies'
May 25, 2007. If you're planning on vacationing this year, we have two bits of advice: stay in a luxury vacation rental and read Budget Travel's "105 Supersmart Strategies." Budget Travel Online excerpted parts of the article from its June 2007 issue, including the sections on trip planning, packing and "on the ground."
In the trip planning section, we noticed the authors covered hotels extensively – how to avoid paying extra, how to make sure you're really getting what you expect, etc. They are great tips that will no doubt help many travelers. At VacationRental.org, our clients show the customers exactly what they are getting, through descriptions and photos, and for how much. It takes the guesswork out of booking accommodations.
The packing advice included encouragement to "pack as little as possible," a theme we keep seeing but which we have some difficulty following sometimes. Luckily, the writers had some tips for minimizing luggage. And they told us about something we hadn't heard of before – shipping luggage via FedEx, rather than checking it. The theory is it eliminates the hassle of dragging around heavy luggage. If some travel pundits' predictions come true and charges for checking in luggage become standard, this solution might become more common.
