“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…
SEA > Anchorage, Alaska: $154 round-trip – Jul-Sep
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
SEA > Fairbanks, Alaska: $222 round-trip – Jul-Sep
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
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…
SEA > Dubrovnik, Croatia: $648 round-trip – Sep-Nov
* 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…
SEA > Kathmandu, Nepal: $724 round-trip – Oct-Dec
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
SEA > Riga, Latvia: $630 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…
SEA > Lanai City, Hawaii: $536 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…
SEA > Calgary, Canada: $222 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…
SEA > Brisbane, Australia: $699 round-trip – Oct-Dec
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
SEA > Sitka, Alaska: $227 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…
SEA > Melbourne, Australia: $680 round-trip – Oct-Dec
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
SEA > Tokyo, Japan: $437 round-trip – Aug-Oct (Including Labor Day)
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
SEA > Anchorage, Alaska: $163 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…
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…
SEA > Nanning, China: $580 round-trip – Aug-Oct (Including Labor Day)
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
SEA > Hong Kong, Hong Kong: $427 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…
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…
SEA > Amman, Jordan: $919 round-trip – Sep-Nov
* There only appear to be a few seats at this price and availability is spotty. It will take a…
SEA > Riga, Latvia: $562 round-trip – Sep-Nov (Including Fall Break)
* 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…
SEA > Marrakesh, Morocco: $782 round-trip – Aug-Oct
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
SEA > Auckland, New Zealand: $877 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…
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…
SEA > Ketchikan, Alaska: $216 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…
SEA > Male, Maldives: $969 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…
SEA > Sao Paulo, Brazil: $680 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…
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…
SEA > Santiago, Chile: $837 round-trip – Oct-Dec (Including Thanksgiving)
* This is a “fare dump” with a few alternate dates available.
SEA > Tel Aviv, Israel: $765 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…
SEA > Auckland, New Zealand: $757 round-trip – Oct-Dec
* 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…