{"id":783,"date":"2015-06-29T16:27:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=783"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","slug":"fantastic-travel-saving-ideas-and-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Travel Saving Ideas and Leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my morning routine of coffee, pet care, showering, etc&#8230; I&#8217;ve got some news channel feeding me the daily updates. Generally, GMA is the program of choice. Today they did not disappoint. There was a great segment on travel and how to save money. View it <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/video\/ways-family-save-big-summers-vacation-32097542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here were the take-aways:<\/p>\n<p>1. Fly into larger airports, then drive to your destination, you&#8217;ll save but compare the savings first.<\/p>\n<p>2. Rent your car at the larger airport, competition drives prices down.<\/p>\n<p>They also listed a number of useful links:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/backbid.com\/\">backbid.com<\/a>\u00a0(hotels bid for your business if you have an existing reservation)<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/hotelied.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hotelied<\/a>.com (uses your social media to match you to a hotel)<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/stayful.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stayful<\/a> (less than 30 days out, best for independent establishments)<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Two minor, but still interesting, links were:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhourfinder.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">happy hour finder app<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/scoutmob.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scoutmob<\/a> (locally curated goods and events)<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Enjoy and spend the money you save. You only live once!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my morning routine of coffee, pet care, showering, etc&#8230; I&#8217;ve got some news channel feeding me the daily updates. Generally, GMA is the program of choice. Today they did not disappoint. There was a great segment on travel and how to save money. View it here. Here were the take-aways: 1. Fly into larger airports, then drive to your destination, you&#8217;ll save but compare the savings first. 2. Rent your car at the larger airport, competition drives prices down. They also listed a number of useful links: backbid.com\u00a0(hotels bid for your business if you have an existing reservation) hotelied.com (uses your social media to match you to a hotel) stayful (less than 30 days out, best for independent establishments) Two minor, but still interesting, links were: happy hour finder app scoutmob (locally curated goods and events) Enjoy and spend the money you save. You only live once!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[205,204],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-cheap-hotels","tag-travel-savings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3044,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}