Make Most Of Your Travel Dollar With Teri Gault's Travel Tips:
CEO
of the GroceryGame.com, Teri Gault, is a lifestyle and savings expert,
who has several great tips and tricks to share to save money whether
you’re traveling on business or with your family.
Find deal sites across the country: Go to sites like Groupon or Living
Social and look up deals for each city you will be visiting. Another
similar site is GoldStar.com which provides half price tickets to events
and shows in several cities nationwide. By planning ahead you can take
advantage of deals.
Dining On The Go
Another
of great tips Teri offers when traveling is to choose lunch over dinner:
Lunch menus are often a lot cheaper than dinner menus and sometimes they
serve the same thing. If you have your eye on a really nice restaurant
instead of paying twice as much for dinner, choose to eat out for lunch
instead. This is good advice, especially when visiting some vacation
destinations, which have a higher restaurant tax like some of those
found in popular tourist spots.
Where to get dining advice: Don’t ask
the concierge for suggestions on where to eat because they often get
paybacks from different places. Instead consider asking a local resident
like the cleaning lady or boutique owner what there favorite place is.
From my experience eating at the local gem will provide the best
experience for the cheapest price.
Engage in conversations with the locals:
Chowhound, a popular online food discussion board, is a great resource
where locals and tourists can chat and exchange tips of places to go and
things to see.
Save on croissants and orange juice:
Pack food, this is especially important when it comes to breakfast. Some
hotels offer breakfast which is something you should take advantage of.
If your hotel doesn’t provide this perk go for a quick shop at the
grocery store and pick up yogurt and cereal for an inexpensive meal.
Handy Travel Apps For Your Trip
Technology
offers many opportunities to find great deals, and this includes handy
Apps, which many of us are taking advantage of these days. Teri suggest
several helpful Apps for your iPhone or iPad that make traveling so much
easier:
SitOrSquat.com is a great must-have
application for you iPhone or iPad as it shows you where the cleanest
public bathrooms are located in your city. This is a great resource,
especially when you’re traveling with children.
Wikihood is one of the highest rated
apps on iTunes. Start the app and enable geolocation and it creates a
list of historical buildings, famous sites, public transit, noted bars,
restaurants and parks. This makes traveling really simple.
Wi-Fi Finder allows you to easily
locate free Wi-Fi in over 320,000 locations in 140 countries worldwide.
This is an incredibly helpful tool when you cant find a local Starbucks.
And thankfully, locations can be downloaded for use when you're not
online.
Yes, the good old TripTik from AAA has
come of age. The TripTik Travel Planner available at AAA.com is a GPS
based planning tool that helps map out any trip and locates hotels, gas
stations, attractions and local events along the way. By downloading the
app for your iPhone you can completely customize your trip. This Apps is
so much easier than the old TripTik's we packed for our trips.
