As the recession sets in, commercial enterprise begins the struggle of staying afloat during an economic downtown. The days of profit taking are now in the rear-view mirror as businesses strive to stay economically viable, while the economy works to right itself. Even the most profitable, most stable companies of yesteryear are finding these times tough. We have all heard the struggles of companies such as Ford, Chevrolet and Chrysler, but other known companies such as Disney, Marriott, and United Airlines are working hard to weather this economic storm.

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/

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Now that gasoline prices have dropped back down to a more comfortable price, people are beginning to consider RV Travel once again. When gasoline was above $4 per gallon, people were avoiding RV travel like the plague, unless the RV owner was more well-to-do than his neighbors. The high gas prices were so daunting that many people put their RV’s up for sale, anticipating that gas prices would continue to be high for longer than they were.

Interestingly, with what I am getting ready to show you, the cost of gasoline could have been a hurdle that you would not needed to have considered, if you wanted to take your RV on vacation. Rather than sitting at home last summer, you could have used this information to offset the high cost of gasoline.

Consider the High Cost of RV Campgrounds

For the average RV owner, finding a RV campground at your vacation destination can be quite expensive. In some cases, “one week” or “one month” at a campground could easily cost $500! No wonder so many people kept their RV’s at home during the summer of 2008.

But, what if I told you that in many cases, you will only need to drive an extra couple miles once you reach your destination, in order to get your campground for free or almost free!

We are not talking about places where you would be afraid to take your family, but family-friendly campgrounds suited to RV camping that you will never find in a travel brochure.

Consider this. If a campground charges nothing to almost nothing for a parking space, how could that campground possibly afford the high cost of advertising in the travel brochure? Ah… and herein lies the secrets to saving big money on your next RV vacation.

Most often, in order to find these alternative, unadvertised campgrounds, one needs to be willing to drive a few more miles just looking for them, be willing to stop and ask questions, and sometimes, just talk to the locals. Or you can turn to someone who has done this kind of leg work for you already.

Finding Budget Travel Opportunities In The RV Community

If you shop your local bookstores, you will not be able to find very many, if any, guidebooks that are designed to show people how to save a lot of money during a RV vacation. Especially with an RV vacation, most writers assume that RVer’s have lots of money and will not be interested in a budget guidebook for RV travel. This misconception convinces many writers and publishers that there is no profit in writing budget guides for the RV traveler.

Thank goodness that there are people who like to travel in their RV’s, who have realized that frugal traveling, even in a RV, can lead to more travel opportunities, as a result of getting more mileage for one’s travel budget.

Luckily, in many prime North American destinations, including the most of the more scenic states (Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Utah) there are still plenty of free and low-cost, scenic, legal and safe camping areas available for the vacationing public.

The author’s of The Ultimate Budget RV Travel Guide have spent more than nine years traveling North America’s back roads searching for the free and low-cost campgrounds that help to keep them traveling in their RV nearly year around.

To simplify the guide, the author’s have broken their RV travel guide down by state or region, since they have found literally hundreds and thousands of free and low-cost RV campgrounds around the United States.

Both RV Campgrounds and Tent Camping Covered

But don’t let the term “RV campgrounds” fool you. Many of these campgrounds also accept campers who bring their own tents and travel trailers. What it boils down to is that if you like camping on your vacation, then you need to own The Ultimate Budget RV Travel Guide that has been compiled for the areas that you like to visit on vacation.

Each of these RV travel guides include: pictures of campsites, directions to the campsite, information about road conditions to the camp ground, information about the availability of utilities. The authors have also gathered and documented all kinds of useful information and tips to help you save money on groceries, dining, entertainment, entry fees, Internet, laundry and dumping your tanks. They even document where you can find the free RV dumping stations. The guides not only provide maps to the campgrounds, but also maps to nearby attractions and tourist spots.

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To learn more about The Ultimate Budget RV Travel Guides, click here.

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