Finding The Best Cheap Hotels For Your Travels
By S Wander

Finding cheap hotels for your travels can be easy if you know where to look for them. In every town there are cheap hotels that a make vacationing a reality for those with even the modest of incomes. The best way to find cheap hotels is to simply start looking.

If you have friends or business associates that have traveled to your destination recently it might be a good idea to inquire with them about how expensive their trip was, and where they stayed. While it might be rude to ask for an itemized pound for pound account of what they spend during their travels, most people will be willing to share with you how expensive their hotel was, and what that price included. If the hotel they visited is a little out of your price range, find out if they looked at any other locations before settling on that one, and if they knew what the cheapest hotel in the area would be, or where one of the less expensive hotels would be located.

It’s important to realize that the cost of staying in a hotel will vary depending on what point in the year you decide to make your trip. A winter trip to a popular summer destination will be exceptionally cheaper than if you made the same trip during the summer months and visa versa. Cheap hotels can have their moments as expensive ones depending on when you decide to travel.

Trips on the weekend are often a little more expensive than trips that you would take in the middle of the week to the same hotel as well. If possible try to book your vacation during the week, and at the very beginning of the season that the area is particularly known for. Depending on what you plan on doing on your trip, you may want to visit the area completely off season to make sure you get the absolute best rates possible.

If your friends could not supply you with the name of a suitable hotel, then begin a search on your own for the perfect accommodations. If you have the dates for your trip in mind, call around to several different hotels within the area and ask them how much a reservation would cost for those particular dates. The Internet can also be a very valuable resource. You can use the Internet to look up hotels contact information, and on some occasions the hotels will have offers available to Internet users that are not available to those who call or simply walk in to the hotel to make reservations.

The earlier you make any reservation wither through the Internet, or in person the less expensive your stay will ultimately be. Even cheap hotels will often make their prices more expensive as they begin to book up. The less rooms available in a particular area, the more expensive the available rooms are going t be. For that reason, as soon as you know that you are going to want to travel to a particular location, and you know the dates of you travels try to go ahead and find a hotel and make reservations. That way you can ensure that you are getting the best rate possible for your trip.

Cheap hotels are not that difficult to locate as long as you are looking for them. Do your research before making any reservation, and you can be sure that you have gotten the best hotel possible for the cheapest rate you can, and are sure to have excellent accommodations for your trip.

Copyright 2006 S Wander

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4 Things You Should Never Have to Pay For
By Lisa Hallman

Well today it came to my attention that there are things that I don't pay for that many of you may not. I do a lot of mailing becauase I belong to the coupon group Trading Post Coupons on Yahoo! and it always helps to have a return address just incase the package of coupon didn't there, and could be returned to me. You guessed what I was talking about, right?

Never Pay For Mailing Labels

Through many charities they offer you free mailing labels in hopes you will donate to them, and everyone needs to cut their costs somewhere. By all means, donate to them if you have the ability but sometimes people aren't always thrifty because they enjoy it, sometimes it's because you need to be. The organizations that I know of that offer free Mailing Labels are PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) , War Amps, and SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). They don't directly say they will send you labels, except for War Amps, but once you get on their mailing list they will send them too you. This year alone I must have received 4 packages of labels from PETA, 2 from War Amps (Ones were stickers, the others were Lick-N' Stick for Christmas). My mother found the one for the SPCA, and man are they cute, nice little doggies and kitties abound on these ones.

* Go to Peta request a Vegetarian Starter Kit or any other of their free brochures and stickers and you will get labels.

* Go to War Amps and request mailing labels and they will be sent to you within about 2 weeks.

* As for the SPCA one contact them via any online contact form for your specific province and request them, that is what my mother did, they are worth the effort.

Wow that was great, I never have to buy labels again.

Never Pay For Condoms

Well there is something you may really like next, especially if your the frisky type. You can get FREE CONDOMS, yep... almost all sexual health clinics have bowls of these in their waiting area, or near the secretarys desk. Seek out your most available sexual health clinic and have a ball, they happen to have colored and flavored ones too on occasion. If your frisky quite often it is definatly a bargain, and it keeps you safe as well. If they ask why you are there, just say you are browsing, or look interested in something. In fact they sometimes encourage you to grab some, yeah they like making you happy. This has been true for both places I've been too in Kitchener and in Toronto, in Ontario. I usually grab 4-6 of them at a time, have fun.

Never Pay For Medications

While visiting my doctor recently, I went to see him about a Skin Condition I have and he asked me if I have a medical plan to pay for my medications, I told him no. So he went out of the room and came back with a couple of full-size samples of the medication I needed. So yes, you can get free medications depending on if the doctor has them, this usually works for topical medications such as creams and salves, also on occasion for more popular diseases such as diabetes and arthritis they will have samples as well. Even if your doctor doesn't offer you a free sample, tell him you can't afford the medication, and more often then not they will supply you with a good amount of free meds. My doctor actually told me to come back when I needed more. Doctor's also have a supply of contraceptives for the amount of 1 month of a time available as a trial to the patient, be sure to ask for those as well if needed. This does especially work well if you are seeing a doctor in a hospital as they always have more.

Never Pay For Calendars

Free calendars abound everywhere -- Every year we need one thing, something to show us the next upcoming year. As the year ends offers are everywhere to get yourself free Calendars. In Ontario, you can rely on the Milk Calendar in your Star Newspaper and almost every grocery store or pharmacy has a free calendar for which you can pick up at the counter. Another great part to this Is that most calendars, because they are sponsor supported have coupons in it, to save you even more money. As a promo with Telus my cellphone service provider, they offer a yearly calendar perk for being a subscriber, all you have to do is respond to the offer and they will send it too you.

There is simply no excuse for buying a calendar unless you are hopelessly addicted to the the super-decorated home, where the calendar just won't match. But I'll forgive you, this time!! The best places I find to get these calendars are Sobeys, Dominion or A&P. October through November of the current year is the only time you'll find them.

Lisa Hallman is a frugalite and a person who simply get's a rush from saving. You can find me frequently posting on my board at http://forums.thriftycanadian.com or trading coupons on Yahoo! Groups Trading Post Coupons. I'm a freelance webmaster and graphic designer.

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