Tips for Leading an Adventurous Life

The truly “extraordinary” airfare deal has become much more elusive in the past couple years – the Airlines are getting smarter, their evil computers track our travel habits and use the data against us, cutting flights, raising prices; It’s done wonders for their bottom line – but it sucks for the budget traveler!

Don’t get me wrong, the extraordinary deal is still out there, buried deep in some airline’s database – but to ferret it out you’ll have to spend all day searching dozens of travel booking websites, and who has time for that?

You guessed it —— Deal Alert Websites! Read More →

Over the past couple years I’ve spent many late nights trolling for cheap airfares online. Through this process I’ve developed a full proof method for making sure that I always get the cheapest airfare currently available.

To get a great fare online you need to keep two things in mind:

• You’re gonna have to search multiple sites. There is no ONE website that you can use to get the lowest airfare every single time. There are many reasons for this but it would take way too long to explain, so just trust me on this one!
• There are dozens of discount airfare websites out there; to keep from getting overwhelmed just remember that most of them will fall into one of 4 categories – these categories form a kind of pyramid – each feeding off the one underneath it.  The categories are:

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Back in the mid 90’s my friend Rob was running an export business in Thailand, he also had a pretty young Thai girlfriend so needless to say Rob needed to fly to Thailand – ALOT! He didn’t have much money back in those days so Inevitably Rob discovered what was the best deal in budget travel at the time – Courier Flights.

It all sounded pretty shady to me – I imagined Rob the unwitting pawn of some Colombian drug lord or the decoy for a black op splinter group of the CIA – turns out the reality was nowhere near as interesting. Read More →