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…
MSY > Dubrovnik, Croatia: $775 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
“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…
MSY > Beijing, China: $632 round-trip – Oct-Dec (Including Thanksgiving)
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
MSY > Panama City, Panama: $287 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
MSY > Melbourne, Australia: $953 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
MSY > Oranjestad, Aruba: $347 round-trip – Jun-Aug (Including Summer Break)
Our trip to Aruba was the beginning of JGOOT. I stumbled across ridiculously cheap flights, bundled that with quite a…
MSY > George Town, Cayman Islands: $430 round-trip – Jul-Sep (Including Summer Break)
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
MSY > Kingston, Jamaica: $359 round-trip – Oct-Dec
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
MSY > Panama City, Panama: $287 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
MSY > Nassau, The Bahamas: $313 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…
MSY > Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten: $255 round-trip- Jun-Aug (Including Summer Break)
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
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…
MSY > Corfu, Greece: $764 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
MSY > George Town, Cayman Islands: $420 round-trip – Jul-Sep (Including Summer Break)
* 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…
MSY > Honolulu, Hawaii: $473 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…
MSY > Panama City, Panama: $273 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…
MSY > San Pedro Sula, Honduras: $272 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* 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…
MSY > San Jose, Costa Rica: $317 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“No way these fares are real.”
Whether via email, public comments, a personal conversation, or comments on Facebook or my blog, I get the exact same objection multiple times a day. Here is my response to a “No way. I checked and it’s not on sale.” public comment o…
Don’t look for deals on cruises. Do this instead:
Here is my response whenever I get asked if I have deals on cruises. Thanks for reaching out. I solely focus on flights for one reason: You can get a FREE cruise, and it doesn’t much matter if that locks you into specific dates that require you…
“Best $100 I’ve ever spent on travel”
Everyone loves JGOOT. Doctors, lawyers, firefighters, entrepreneurs, millennials, retirees, teachers… Even travel agents! Here is a testimonial from an attorney who recently upgraded to our premium annual subscription. Want to try our premium tr…
You don’t need my services
I woke up to 9 emails this morning asking what deals I know of to a specific place at a specific time. Unfortunately, I’m not a travel agent and as much as I’d like to get their business, upgrading to my premium trip-alert service would be …
Jerry West’s trick to getting business class flights for 1/2 to 1/3 of what people paid for their coach seat
Jerry West is a master negotiator, seasoned Europe traveler, and JGOOT premium subscriber. In this video, we chat about how he put a combination of his JGOOT subscription and his negotiation skills to work to score two different business class flights …
“I’ll have a cheeseburger with no cheese”
“I’ll have a cheeseburger with no cheese.” If you were sitting next to someone who ordered that, wouldn’t you feel COMPELLED to tell them they’re paying too much? Sadly, I have that same feeling several dozen times a week….
Meet Dante – Travel App Expert
Dante in the video below is pretty well-traveled. For years, he’s used the Hopper app, Airfare Watchdog, Travelzoo, Kayak Explorer, Google’s Fare Watcher, etc. When he found out I was at a travel expo in his area, he drove an hour to grill …
Planning a trip to Hawaii
Yesterday, a premium subscriber called with a question about the best way to plan his Hawaii trip. Since it was going to be a long/involved conversation, he agreed to do it on camera so others could “listen in” too. It turned out to be a pr…
Tonight’s Oscars, “A Star Is Born”, and an unexpected reaction
Last night, in hopes of cramming one last Oscar nominated movie in before tonight’s award ceremony, my lovely wife Michelle rented “A Star Is Born” for us to watch. After a long day skiing (and a 4 hour drive back due to a 2-hour road…
JGOOT Subscriber story: “Flights so cheap we got to bring the grandparents!”
Nikki Sandschaper and her husband are both school teachers – which might seem great for vacations, but considering the only time teachers can travel is during peak seasons, that can get pricey quick. In this interview we talked about one of their…
“It’s five minutes of dreaming and fun” – Robert Horvick
Below is a recording of a conversation I had with JGOOT premium subscriber Robert Horvick after he left these kind words on our Facebook page. Robert & his wife live in Raleigh, NC. Since joining my trip-alert service, they’ve only travelled …