Our trip to Aruba was the beginning of JGOOT. I stumbled across ridiculously cheap flights, bundled that with quite a…
This recipe is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser
This dish is not served often enough. Most people think it takes too much time to plan, but when done right, it takes less time than just about any dish you cook “the traditional way”. It’s guaranteed to please the whole family, but t…
DTW > San Jose, Costa Rica: $255 round-trip – Sep-Nov (Including Fall Break)
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
DTW > San Juan, Puerto Rico: $260 round-trip – Sep-Nov
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
Honey! I shopped “The JGOOT Way” at the grocery store & saved 46 percent!
“Honey! I shopped The JGOOT Way at the grocery store and we saved 46 percent!” Although my wife Michelle usually plans all of our meals out in advance before making her grocery list, it was a busy week for both of us. So rather than plannin…
DTW > Austin, Texas: $77 round-trip – Oct-Dec
JGOOT Subscriber tells us about his $97 round-trip direct flight to Austin (that he has paid $350 for in the…
DTW > Budapest, Hungary: $489 round-trip – Dec-Feb
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
Two people. Same plane. TOTALLY different prices.
Meet Kari & Kelly, Kari got a $1500 Mexico lodging voucher through JGOOT, and she and her friend Kelly booked a girls’ trip over a holiday weekend. They booked their flights on the same day… They’re flying on the same plane, to th…
Amazon Prime day – Great day to shop for new luggage
My wife has been wanting to update our 10 to 15-year-old luggage, but I’m a notorious cheapskate and have been resisting. Since Amazon is knocking as much as 60% off for Prime day, she finally convinced my cheap-a$$ to agree. If you’re shop…
DTW > Cairo, Egypt: $609 round-trip – Sep-Nov
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
DTW > Kuwait City, Kuwait: $520 round-trip – Oct-Dec (Including Thanksgiving)
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
DTW > Oranjestad, Aruba: $295 round-trip – Aug-Oct
Our trip to Aruba was the beginning of JGOOT. I stumbled across ridiculously cheap flights, bundled that with quite a…
“Sorry, this just seems like a scam”
For every one “Thank You” email I get from a paid subscriber, I probably get ten from free subscribers who simply don’t believe the prices I say are possible when traveling (even when I send them actual trips they can book themselves …
The best way to save big on lodging (that is overlooked 90% of the time.)
Today’s blog post was inspired by a question I get asked almost as often as “can you beat the price I found for flights to _______“? (And for the record; No – I don’t do price quotes – even if it’s for a $25,00…
DTW > Saint Petersburg, Russia: $721 round-trip – Sep-Nov
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
DTW > Beirut, Lebanon: $591 round-trip – Oct-Dec
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
DTW > Austin, Texas: $77 round-trip – Sep-Nov (Including Fall Break)
JGOOT Subscriber tells us about his $97 round-trip direct flight to Austin (that he has paid $350 for in the…
DTW > Cancun, Mexico: $295 round-trip – Aug-Oct
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DTW > Panama City, Panama: $248 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
DTW > Guayaquil, Ecuador: $415 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
DTW > Jacksonville, Florida: $82 round-trip – Aug-Oct
Have friends or family in Jacksonville? Grab this cheap flight and visit them, or check out the reverse search link…
DTW > Orlando, Florida: $114 round-trip – Jun-Aug (Including Summer Break)
Have friends or family in Orlando? Grab this cheap flight and visit them, or check out the reverse search link…
DTW > Atlanta, Georgia: $144 round-trip – Jun-Aug (Including Summer Break)
Have friends or family in Atlanta? Grab this cheap flight and visit them, or check out the reverse search link…
DTW > Panama City, Panama: $305 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
DTW > Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: $139 round-trip – Aug-Oct
Have friends or family in Myrtle Beach? Grab this cheap flight and visit them, or check out the reverse search…
The more often you look – The luckier you get
I’m flying my family of four across the country for only slightly more than what most people would pay for one passenger and just had to share… I was about to admit defeat and pay more than I’ve paid for a flight in over 2 years: $222…
DTW > Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten: $311 round-trip – May-Jul (Including Summer Break)
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
FNT > Melbourne, Australia: $940 round-trip – Oct-Dec
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
Traveling during a busy holiday week? Try these 3 strategies (in this order)
Although my awesome support team do our best to individually answer most questions we get, it’s impossible to stay on top of them all. Sometimes, however, we get questions I know a lot of people have – that haven’t yet been covered on…
FNT > Boston, Massachusetts: $151 round-trip – Feb-Apr (Including Spring Break)
I rarely post trips to Boston because they are typically so expensive and I advise using points instead of paying…
DTW > Kansas City, Kansas: $129 round-trip – May-Jul (Including Summer Break)
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
DTW > San Jose, Costa Rica: $349 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
DTW > Fort Myers, Florida: $112 round-trip – May-Jul (Including Summer Break)
Have friends or family in Fort Myers? Grab this cheap flight and visit them, or check out the reverse search…
DTW > Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten: $308 round-trip – May-Jul (Including Summer Break)
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
DTW > Beirut, Lebanon: $765 round-trip – Oct-Dec
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
Divorce lawyers, Taco-Tuesdays & vacationing with reckless abandon
It was 2012 and I was in the middle of a brutal divorce. Although the kids’ Mom and I were doing a decent job of shielding our kids from our disagreements, our lawyers were duking it out like the final fight scene of Rocky IV. All of my assets we…
DTW > Riga, Latvia: $673 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
DTW > Guayaquil, Ecuador: $455 round-trip – May-Jul (Including Summer Break)
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
DTW > Managua, Nicaragua: $384 round-trip – Jun-Aug (Including Summer Break)
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
DTW > Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: $125 round-trip – May-Jul (Including Summer Break)
Have friends or family in Myrtle Beach? Grab this cheap flight and visit them, or check out the reverse search…