Travel Tuesday Tips !

Our shows travel expert Michelle joins to talk through the top 3 tips when  booking travel Tuesday! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're waking up with five in the morning. Kiss one
O seven one, Hi, good.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Morning, good morning. All right, I have the top three
tips for travel Tuesday with our show's resident travel expert.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, Michelle, good morning, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Of course, today is cyber Monday. Tomorrow is travel Tuesday.
What is your number one tip for those that want
to book travel or that are hearing like these are
the best deals of the year, Like is this really
a thing?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, it's a fantastic time to book some travel. I
think the number one thing you can do to help
yourself is be a little bit flexible about your dates. Okay,
you could easily save a few hundred dollars just by
changing your dates by one or two days, so saying,
instead of leaving on a weekend, maybe leave midweek like Tuesday, Wednesday.
In a similar vein, be flexible with your destination, depending

(00:47):
on where you want to go. A lot of these places,
a lot of these deals, they're only going to be
valid for travels days cruises between January and April, So
depending if you want to go to say Europe, depending
on the country, there may not be a lot going
on come March or even April. Those quintessential reasons why
you go are probably not going to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Okay, So flexible dates, flexible destination.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
How does one search for deals in such like? How
would you do it as a travel expert?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
As a travel expert, I would, of course start with
a travel advisor, Okay, reach out. We get so many
emails about all the deals, and that's year round as well.
But if you don't yet have one, I would start
with flights. Try Google Flights. Use their grid feature to
see what those prices look like one or two days
prior to when you want to leave, one to two

(01:39):
days after. You could also set price alerts, and I
would set those today so that way, as soon as
you wake up tomorrow, you already have a list of
things flight related that are going to be some of
the best deals. If you have, let's say, a hotel
chain that you prefer, sign up for their newsletter, they're
going to send those things out to their rewards members
tomorrow morning or tonight a minute, yeah, exactly, They're going

(02:01):
to drop while you sleep, So as you're getting ready
in the morning, if you're taking public transit on your commune,
you can flip through those things.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Your in since he is taking public transit.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Girl, not me, but you know what, I'm open. If
that's how you roll, then that's how you roll.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Oh man, all right, So those are like one, two,
three tips. Is there anything else that I'm missing too
that you think is valuable? I would say, just don't
get discouraged. It does come with a lot of hype.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Right you're coming off of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Okay,
Cyber Monday. This is not the only time to save.
If you're not ready to travel yet. If you can't
travel in the early spring, reach out to a travel advisor.
We have the deals running year long, so there's always
a time where you can get a good deal and
get the most bang for your buck. You reach out
to me, I'll find something for you.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay quickly? Though? Points and stuff? Do they do travel
Tuesday discounts? For like, Hey, if you have points, you
should go in And the points game is always so
confusing to me. But if you have Delta points or
something like, are they putting a sale on flights through
points well.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Or is it just dollars that I actually don't know?
I would say if you have a travel credit card though,
definitely utilize it now and rack up those points. There
are so many out there to take advantage of. I
won't go and recommend it any specifically, we'd be here
for all day. To be here all day, but yeah,
definitely take advantage and do a little bit of research.

(03:22):
If you have one in mind, let me know. I'll
do some additional research for you. And if we can
take advantage of those, yeah, we're going to take advantage
of those, all right.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Michelle Is she's the Jane of All Travel is her
social handle. She's also traveled Europe solo before. So if
you're like, Ooh, I don't have a friend that I
want to book travel Tuesday with, but I want to
go by myself, you can also reach out to her
for that. She's a good friend of the show. Thank you,
Michelle By, thanks for having me