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…
PHL > Cape Town, South Africa: $966 round-trip – Oct-Dec (Including Thanksgiving)
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take 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…
PHL > San Pedro Sula, Honduras: $308 round-trip – Aug-Oct (Including Labor Day)
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PHL > Piarco, Trinidad and Tobago: $327 round-trip – Dec-Feb (Including MLK Weekend)
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
PHL > Tokyo, Japan: $662 round-trip – Nov-Jan
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
PHL > Brisbane, Australia: $790 round-trip – Jul-Sep
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PHL > Amsterdam, Netherlands: $377 round-trip – Sep-Nov
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
PHL > Montego Bay, Jamaica: $323 round-trip – Jul-Sep (Including Summer Break)
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PHL > Bali, Indonesia: $637 round-trip – Oct-Dec
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
PHL > San Pedro Sula, Honduras: $327 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…
PHL > Cancun, Mexico: $360 round-trip- Oct-Dec
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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…
PHL > Amman, Jordan: $849 round-trip – Aug-Oct (Including Labor Day)
* This is an airline sale that is time-sensitive. Plenty of alternate dates (even in other months), but you’ll need…
PHL > Beirut, Lebanon: $857 round-trip – Feb-Apr (Including Spring Break)
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
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…
PHL > Heraklion, Greece: $639 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PHL > Melbourne, Australia: $843 round-trip – Feb-Apr
* 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…
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…
PHL > Osaka, Japan: $601 round-trip – Oct-Dec
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PHL > Vienna, Austria: $617 round-trip – Sep-Nov
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
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…
PHL > San Pedro Sula, Honduras: $325 round-trip – Apr-Jun (Including Summer Break)
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PHL > Split, Croatia: $764 round-trip – Sep-Nov
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PHL > Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: $699 round-trip – Sep-Nov (Including Fall Break)
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
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…
PHL > Budapest, Hungary: $607 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…
PHL > Warsaw, Poland: $810 round-trip – Sep-Nov (Including Fall Break)
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
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…
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…
ORD > New Delhi, India: $516 round-trip – Oct-Dec (Including Thanksgiving)
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
PHL > Kiev, Ukraine: $628 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
“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…
PHL > Dubrovnik, Croatia: $765 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
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…