* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
PDX > Sydney, Australia: $869 round-trip – Jan-Mar
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
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…
PDX > Vienna, Austria: $654 round-trip – Oct-Dec
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
PDX > Krasnodar, Russia: $870 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* 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…
PDX > Edmonton, Canada: $246 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…
PDX > Montreal, Canada: $358 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…
PDX > Prague, Czech Republic: $649 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…
PDX > Santiago, Chile: $830 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…
PDX > Winnipeg, Canada: $274 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…
PDX > Brasilia, Brazil: $865 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…
PDX > Cancun, Mexico: $269 round-trip – Jan-Mar
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PDX > Shanghai, China: $373 round-trip – Nov-Jan
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PDX > Calgary, Canada: $220 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…
PDX > Sao Paulo, Brazil: $1044 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…
PDX > Nanning, China: $634 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…
PDX > Panama City, Panama: $464 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PDX > Dubrovnik, Croatia: $852 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PDX > Anchorage, Alaska: $196 round-trip – Jun-Aug (Including Summer Break)
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
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…
PDX > Sydney, Australia: $780 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…
PDX > Male, Maldives: $930 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…
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…
PDX > Anchorage, Alaska: $165 round-trip – Jun-Aug
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
PDX > Santiago, Chile: $809 round-trip – Nov-Jan
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PDX > Reykjavik, Iceland: $543 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PDX > Shanghai, China: $473 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…
PDX > George Town, Cayman Islands: $435 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…
PDX > Edmonton, Canada: $229 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…
PDX > Sydney, Australia: $763 round-trip – Jul-Sep
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PDX > Rarotonga, Cook Islands: $620 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…
PDX > Prague, Czech Republic: $630 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
PDX > San Jose, Costa Rica: $475 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…
PDX > Managua, Nicaragua: $440 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…
PDX > Entebbe, Uganda: $875 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
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…