* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
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…
FLL > Saint Thomas Island, U.S. Virgin Islands: $202 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
FLL > San Jose, Costa Rica: $202 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…
MIA > Montego Bay, Jamaica: $283 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…
“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…
FLL > Cancun, Mexico: $216 round-trip – Aug-Oct
Premium subscriber benefit: Log in and click below to download a 6-night luxury vacation voucher for Mayan Palace in Mazatlan,…
FLL > Sao Paulo, Brazil: $503 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…
MIA > Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: $598 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…
FLL > Saint Thomas Island, U.S. Virgin Islands: $217 round-trip – Jul-Sep
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
MIA > Managua, Nicaragua: $258 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…
FLL > San Jose, Costa Rica: $203 round-trip – Jul-Sep
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
MIA > San Salvador, El Salvador: $216 round-trip – Sep-Nov
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
FLL > Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten: $131 round-trip – Jun-Aug
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
FLL > Guayaquil, Ecuador: $283 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…
MIA > Willemstad, Curaçao: $307 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…
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…
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…
MIA > Panama City, Panama: $221 round-trip – Oct-Dec (Including Fall Break)
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
FLL > San Pedro Sula, Honduras: $203 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…
FLL > Salvador, Brazil: $590 round-trip – Sep-Nov
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
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…
MIA > San Pedro Sula, Honduras: $267 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…
MIA > Cancun, Mexico: $205 round-trip – Aug-Oct (Including Labor Day)
Premium subscriber benefit: Log in and click below to download a 6-night luxury vacation voucher for Mayan Palace in Mazatlan,…
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…
Are these prices real, and who is this Joel guy? (Video)
Is this site real? Are YOU real? What’s the catch? I get asked those questions all the time and I’d be an idiot if I didn’t think you’ve wondered the same. It’s really simple. The trips I find are so cheap – the airl…
FLL > Managua, Nicaragua: $210 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…
MIA > Guadalajara, Mexico: $205 round-trip – Jan-Mar
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
A rarely known hack that can pay for a vacation (or three) per year
As you (hopefully) know from reading my blog, I’m a big advocate of using frequent flyer points any time you have to go somewhere that is going to cost more than the prices I share on Just Get Out Of Town. I’ve used frequent flyer points to…
FLL > Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten: $131 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…
FLL > Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands: $177 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…
FLL > Port Au Prince, Haiti: $223 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…
Mother & son fly to Belize for $320 to get SCUBA certified
I recently got this video from a Mother about a recent trip to Belize. She and her son flew there for $320 round-trip to celebrate their birthdays and got SCUBA certified. In the spirit of Mother’s day, I thought it would be appropriate that I sh…
MIA > George Town, Cayman Islands: $212 round-trip – Nov-Jan (Including Winter Break)
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
FLL > San Jose, Costa Rica: $147 round-trip – Apr-Jun
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
Meet Brooke – Our Senior Support Rep
Hi There, I’m Brooke and I’m the newest member of the Just Get Out Of Town team (abbreviated JGOOT)! I help Joel keep on top of correspondence with his blog subscribers, so if you reply to an email from us, it will probably be me who will be hel…
Players, Spotters, Whales & winnings they make movies about
In the blackjack world, there are 3 types of people at the tables: Players, Spotters & Whales. Players Players make up 99% of the people at the tables. Some win a few hundred bucks, some lose and console in the fact that at least they got free drin…
Can I pick my own dates?
For every time I get this question, I’m sure there are 1000 more subscribers wondering the same thing, so I’ll just post my response here. Hi Noah, It’s closer to the latter. I share the 100 to 150 deals a month with my premium subscr…