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.  

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Teri Gault's a frequent flyer who travels has mastered a whole system of getting the most value for your travel dollars, and still without sacrificing comfort. For more travel tips, and other helpful advice visit www. GroceryGame.com.