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I have the chance to review Hotels select.


This is a really interesting travel club.  You pay a fee of about 200 dollars a year to use their very extensive site.  I got this membership free.   It has many deals of mostly hotels, but also rental cars, flights, restaurants and events around the world.  I have been spending days looking at what they offer.  So far what I’ve found is amazing deals on the places many people go.  For example, hotels in Orlando are 50% less than deals you find at booking.com.  Rental cars are often 25% cheaper than Rental cars.com.  And they have a search where you can book a condo for as little as 250 dollars a week just 1 mile from Disney world.  That is 7 nights for 250 dollars for up to 4 people.  The exact location on Airbnb cost 650 dollars a week. If you travel to places like San Diego, New York City and Las Vegas this site will save you a great deal of money.  If you rent cars you will also find it worth the 200 dollar fee.  I already booked one rental car and saved about 40 dollars off the price.  And I actually plan to go to Orlando next year.  So I am sure I will save hundreds of dollars more.  I was not that impressed by the event and restaurant portion of smaller cities. My family lives in Corvallis Oregon for example. There were not many offers there.  Every major movie theater up to 65% off.  So you can at least go to see movies in Corvallis for less.  If you are an off the beaten path kind of person, this is not for you.   

 

I looked at events in locations like Paris.  They had some very cool offers I did not know about.  For example, you can take a 4-hour tour around Paris with a private driver for only 110 euro and Skip-the-Line Eiffel Tower and take a Seine River Cruise for 40 euro.  So if you only have one day in Paris you can really see a lot for a small fee.  I’m not someone who likes cruise but I checked prices for a 3 day Bahamas cruise. 

 A 3-day cruise to the Bahamas on carnival with an ocean view is $279.  That is departing from Miami.  So if I do go to Orlando next year, who knows…maybe a 3-day cruise would be worth looking into?  And if you take trips to major travel destinations it is definitely worth looking into https://www.hotelsetc.com/ .  

 

 




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