This week’s syndicated Super-Couponing Tips column is entitled “Vacation savings: To drive or to fly?” Here’s an excerpt:
“With summer vacation season in full swing, I’d like to devote some column space to talking about travel and vacation savings. One of the benefits of my being so devoted to couponing is being able to save or spend the money we’ve saved in other areas of life. We love to travel, and our family’s vacations are always planned with a budget in mind. Whether we’re camping in tents at a local conservation area or flying to one of the coasts, I’m always looking for the most economical ways for our family to see the world and make memories together.
“When I was a child, my family took a lot of road trips. Getting to our destination took several days filled with long drives, stops at roadside attractions and educational experiences. (I’ve long joked that my Dad couldn’t drive us anywhere without stopping to tour a cave or a power dam. We always had to see at least one educational spot on every trip!)”
Read this entire column at NWItimes.com.
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llamalluv says
I’ve run the numbers driving to the West coast myself, and it’s never cheaper to fly than to drive. Once we get out there, we’d be stuck at the airport. Renting a car is expensive! Even adding up the cost of gasoline, hotel stays, and meals for the trip back and forth, it’s cheaper to drive than to fly and rent a car.
And it’s just not possible to take three weeks worth of diapers for two children, plus a minimum of a week’s worth of clothes for four people, plus all the gifts I’m bringing to my nieces and nephews in our luggage allowance.
Plus with driving, we do like your dad used to. I have reciprocal memberships to the AZA and the ACM and we stop at museums and zoos. While driving, I listen to books on CD, free from our library and available for 6 weeks at a time on a “vacation loan”. The drive becomes part of the vacation.