Budget Travel’s hot winter deals money-saving tips

The good news is that you can still get great deals for now through January 6. The bad news is that you won’t have as many options as you normally would. You’ll find it easier if you’re flexible — both on where you go and when you go.  Erik Torkells, Editor of Budget Travel magazine shares hot winter deals and practical advice:

Why you should consider a packagePackages — where you pay one price for several parts (usually at least air and hotel) — can be major bargains. Here’s why: To fill rooms and seats, hotels and airlines will resort to rock-bottom prices. For obvious reasons, they don’t like to publicize these rates, so they sell a certain number of rooms or seats to companies that bundle them in packages. That way, no one knows exactly what the airfare or hotel alone costs.

And this time of year, the hard part is finding an airfare — and packagers may have airfares that no one else does. Moreover, during busy times like the holidays, you can get stuck wondering if you should first buy your airfare or reserve your hotel. With a package, it happens simultaneously. (And it’s easy. Let’s face it: If you were the kind of person who really liked planning travel, you probably would’ve planned a holiday trip a long time ago.)

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