The Kaanapali Beach Hotel in Kaanapali, Hawaii is offering its 2009 Whale Encounter travel special through 04/04/2009.

Maui’s humpback whale season is right around the corner, and Kaanapali Beach Hotel’s 5-Night Whale Encounter Package is priced just right for two people!

This travel package includes:

• 5 nights in Partial Ocean View accommodations
• Daily buffet breakfast at the Kaanapali Mixed Plate Restaurant
• Compact rental car
• $50 dinner credit at the Tiki Terrace Restaurant
• One 12″ pizza
• Whale Watch Cruise for two
• Admission for two to the Maui Ocean Center
• KBH logo cooler bag with two bottles of water per day
• A disposable camera and two beach towels

The 2009 Whale Encounter is priced at $1585 for five nights and two people. Valid travel dates run through April 4, 2009.

Learn more on their website here.

Honeymoon In Hawaii

Maui’s white sand beaches and exotic flowers are among the most beautiful in the world.

The Kaanapali Beach Hotel is a prime destination for couples seeking to get married or to go on a honeymoon vacation.

The Kaanapali Beach Hotel has a nice oceanfront garden for the wedding ceremony. They also provide a caring, knowledgeable experts to assist with all the event planning details. The staff at the Kaanapali Beach Hotel are committed to helping their guests achieve the most memorable wedding experience possible.

Wedding and honeymoon packages start from just $950 complete for a truly affordable and Hawaiian wedding experience.

Learn more here.

Hawaii’s Volcanoes

While you are in Maui, Hawaii, enjoying the natural beauty of the beaches and the whales, a trip to a nearby volcano will add to the excitement of your vacation.

Maui is the second largest of Hawaii’s islands, behind the Big Island, and both islands are mostly inaccessible from land. When it comes to touring the islands, one of the best ways to take in the full experience is to take one of the available flying tours, by aircraft or helicopter.

Flights leave Maui daily, taking visitors for an aerial tour of Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii. These flights take visitors over rain forests, spectacular beaches including black sand beaches, scenic coastline views, dramatic cliffs, and cascading waterfalls. Tour operators also overfly the world’s largest dormant volcano (Haleakala), located on Maui, and lava flows in an active volcano area (Kilauea) on the Big Island of Hawaii.

If you are traveling to Hawaii for the Whale Encounter, chances are that you will also be able to see the whales as you are flying over Hawaiian waters.

Learn more about Maui’s Flying Tours at the following URLs:

• http://www.volcanoairtours.com/
• http://bigislandvolcanotours.com/hawaiivolcanotour32m.php
• http://www.allhawaiitours.com/

If you decide that you would like to hike Kilauea volcano’s lava flows, there are also tour operators who help make this possible too.

• http://www.hawaiiactivities.com/us/hawaii/maui/sg/2122/ag/9986/
• http://www.hawaiiactive.com/activities/maui-volcano-adventure.html
• http://www.ahawaii.com/tours/oahu/pat/maui/maui%20to%20volcano.htm

Once In A Lifetime

If you only get once chance to go to Hawaii in your lifetime, you should take the opportunity to soak in all that Hawaii has to offer. Take in the whales, the exotic birds and sea life, the beautiful beaches, the Pacific Ocean and Hawaii’s volcanoes, all in the same action packed week.

As a consumer, you and I will begin to see special offers thrown at us, in an effort to attract our dollars to these major travel industry providers. To date, one of the more aggressive companies in the travel discount offers has been the Walt Disney corporation. Whether you are seeking to travel to Disney Land in California or Walt Disney World in Florida, you will find a large variety of discount specials designed to attract your vacation dollars to Disney properties.

Disney World Specials

One such special currently being offered by Walt Disney World is a Buy 4 Get 3 For Free special. We originally mentioned this special in December of 2008, and the special was originally slated to end in December, but now in February of 2009, that special is still ongoing. With this package, if you buy four nights at Disney World, you will get three more nights for free. That is a wonderful special offer.

If you live near an AirTran Airways hub airport, you can get significant air travel discounts for your seven days at Walt Disney World Resorts, when you order your air travel with your Disney vacation. AirTran serves has routes into and out of airports mostly on the East Coast, but also in the Midwest and Plain states, as well as a few western airports. Visit the AirTran website to learn more specific information about the routes that they serve.

If you are planning for a Spring Break getaway, select Walt Disney Resorts are also offering a $74 per night special.

Now, my kids are too young for those dream Disney vacation deals, so I have to look elsewhere for my travel specials. My kids love visiting zoos and animal parks, so that is what we usually do on vacation.

San Diego Zoo Specials

To find the kinds of travel deals I look for, visit any of the zoo websites and you could be very impressed by the travel specials that they offer. For example, the San Diego Zoo is offering wonderful family travel packages. You can get three days and two nights for a family of four, complete with hotel rooms and zoo tickets, for only $144. This package is regularly priced at $534.

For the San Diego Wild Animal Park Safari, you can get the same three days and two nights in a hotel with tickets to the Safari, for only $164. This package also normally retails for $534.

Given that the San Diego Zoo is offering their packages for two-thirds off the regular rate, it is clear that the Zoo is willing to throw away a lot of profits, just to keep the cash registers ringing.

Don’t Be Afraid To Shop Around

Many of the travel destinations that you and I would like to visit, have an online presence in the form of a website dedicated to share information about a given destination.

If you have a travel destination that you would like to visit this summer, don’t be shy about seeing if they have a website. If you do, you might just find that the destination is offering some pretty handsome travel deals this spring and summer.

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Anson Werner spends his spare time shopping travel offers and learning tricks to help him save money and get more enjoyment from his limited travel dollars. Recent finds include a 3-day/2-night vacation for two to Las Vegas for $49, and a trick for getting a free cruise for his family. Anson’s friends had always asked him about the travel specials he finds, so he decided to share his knowledge and discoveries in his travel blog at: http://www.shoppingtraveldeals.com/blog/

Learn How to Receive A Bahamas Cruise and Only Pay Port Fees! Take Yours Today!

This offer is available to UK and US residents. You will get a free Bahamas cruise for two – includes accommodations, food and entertainment.

This offer delivers a 2-night, round-trip cruise aboard the M/V Regal Empress, from Ft. Lauderdale to Nassau, Bahamas. Aboard ship, the cruise recipient will enjoy a comfortable inside stateroom, all meals, live entertainment and shipboard activities.

Cruise package does not include transportation, port charges and government taxes, service charges, Florida state sales tax, gratuities, or incidentals while on board ship. The cruise line must collect the $59 per person fee required to cover the cost of Port Fees.

Upgraded rooms and travel options are available at additional costs. Rates for third and fourth person in your stateroom, when available, may be purchased at the current cruise line rate.

Cabin Space Is Limited, So Order Now!

Click here to get all of the facts. Courtesy of the Imperial Majesty Cruise Line.

Through Dec 20th, 2008, you can pay for a four-night stay and get three-nights for free. Disney’s Buy 4 Get 3 Free Special is described as:

• For a family of four in a standard room;
• Offer valid for most Disney resorts and other lengths of stay at varying rates for stays most nights 1/4 – 1/12, 1/19 – 4/4 and 4/19 – 6/27;
• Magic Your Way Package. Tickets are for 1 Theme Park per day and must be used within 14 days of first use;
• When you travel between 1/4 – 1/9 and 1/19 – 3/29/09, you’ll also get a $200 Disney Gift Card;
• The number of packages allocated for this offer is limited.

This is a wonderful package deal that allows you to get the best of a Disney Vacation for nearly half the normal rate.

Year around, you can view other Walt Disney World special offers here.

Or get the Disney Insider Secrets of how to save money when ordering a Disney Vacation, from a former employee of the Magic Kingdom.

• Alaska Airlines has a surprising number of vacation pacakges available for their customers.
• Beyond the American Airlines Christmas deals, American Airlines also offers a wide variety of travel deals to destinations all over the world, with a wide-range of options available.
• Continental Airlines offers a few vacation packages, for a few well-traveled destinations.
• Delta Airlines is offering a number of travel package deals in the United States, including Hawaii, Las Vegas, Disney and Colorado skiing packages. They are also offering travel packages for many travel destinations around the world.
• Frontier Airlines is currently only offering a Christmas 2008 reduced flight fares special.
• JetBlue has a wide assortment of JetBlue travel packages available to consumers.
• Northwest Airlines is offering NWA Christmas 2008 travel specials, but it also offers other travel package specials here.
• Southwest Airlines offers many travel packages, ranging from family vacations to Disney World to couple vacation packages to Las Vegas.
• United Airlines has an entire website dedicated to their travel packages.
• US Airways also has a website dedicated to travel packages, but theirs is not as comprehensive as the aforementioned.

If you are willing to spend some time shopping for the vacation package deals that might be of interest to you, there is a lot out there that could help make your next vacation, your best vacation ever.

1. Since most airlines are now charging for extra bags, taking your gifts on the airplane could very well end up costing you a lot of extra fees. In fact, most travelers will find that shipping gifts via UPS or the U.S. Postal Service will be much cheaper than trying to carry those gifts onto the airplane.
2. If you are going to carry Christmas gifts on the airplane with you to your destination, it is recommended that you do not wrap your gifts until you reach your destination. With the heightened security concerns at American airports, airport security will likely unwrap your gifts for you, just so that you can board the airplane. So don’t wrap your gifts before you leave, and you will not have to wrap those gifts twice. Additionally, whenever possible, you should pack loose items in clear plastic bags for the same reasons. If security needs to dig through your small items, items may be lost.
3. If you need hotel rooms at your destination, hotel-flight packages are generally far less expensive than buying the two items separate, in some cases as much as 75% cheaper. Even connecting flights are generally cheaper than direct flights.
4. Before you order those airline tickets, take some time to check the alternative travel methods including: Amtrak train, bus, or rental car. You may even find packaged Christmas vacation deals offered by specific airlines, such as those offered by American Airlines here, which is offering flight and hotel Christmas package deals for as little as $139 per night per person. (Click the links for more specific vacation discount offers.)
5. When talking to a travel agent, don’t give the agent a specific travel date, but instead, give a date range to the agent. Your flexibility on travel arrangements could literally save you as much as 50% on your travel arrangements.
6. If you are willing to catch an afternoon flight, as opposed to a morning flight, and travel on Tuesday instead of on Monday, once again, you could save a lot of money on airfare.
7. For holiday travel, if you are willing to travel on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, you will find the airports relatively empty and the flight ticket prices extraordinarily low.
8. Be willing to consider alternative airports. For example, you could fly into Dallas / Fort Worth airport (DFW) or you could fly into Dallas Love Field (DAL), which is located just to the northwest of downtown Dallas. If someone is picking you up at the airport, there may be little difference to them which airport they pick you up. And, if you are catching a cab or rental car from the airport, the extra drive time will not be that much, since there is only 20 miles between airports.
9. When you rent a car at your destination, be sure to refill the gas tank before you return the car to the rental car agency. If the car rental company has to refill the gas tank after you drop off the car, they will charge you their gallon price, which is typically much higher than the gas station across the street from the car rental agency.
10. If you plan to stay in a hotel while visiting family over the holidays, ask if the hotel offers courtesy shuttles to and from the airport. This could prevent you from needing to have someone waiting for you at the airport, and it could eliminate the cost of catching a taxi cab to your hotel, which could cost quite a bit of extra cash.

Please visit our website often or register to receive our RSS travel feed, as we are constantly looking for great new travel deals and money saving tips for your travel experience.

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On our last Las Vegas vacation, we stayed at the Stratosphere. On our next visit, we will stay on the Strip, perhaps at the Luxor or the MGM Grand.

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