Cheap Trick Thursday: cheap travel tips
The Sun's travel section offered several tips to help save on travel costs in the new year.
First off, don't forget to include Greyhound in your quest for cut-price bus service, as you hunt down Megabus deals and others.
Definitely, there's benefits to planning ahead when it comes to bus travel. Greyhound is slashing prices on advance purchases for adult tickets by 20 percent, and there are deals for companion fares as well.
There's also some great advice about travel resolutions we should make for 2009 ...
... by LA Times colleague Jane Engle. She warns us to be aware of bankruptcies that affect travel companies, including airlines, cruise lines and the like and to plan for extra fees tacked onto everything from checked bags to hotel rooms and rental cars, as well as sign up for e-mailed offers to take advantage of last-minute savings.
Her last two tips --- tracking the U.S. dollar, and how that might impact prices overseas, and not to dillydally when getting a U.S. passport --- are also great advice. New security rules take effect June 1 and you don't pay extra fees to expedite your application if you can take care of this today!
(photo: Elizabeth Malby/Baltimore Sun)
