Packinglight.com 70% off luggage deals and a coupon code

Extra savings on all PackingLight.com Travel Gear including Travel Purses, Handbags, Packing Organizers, Foreign Electrical Adaptor & Converters and more. Coupon Code: PLSALE4U

Daily Spinner Luggage Specials - Up to 70% OFF Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Prices at PackingLight.com. See added savings with Coupon Code! Coupon Code: Spinners

Ever thought of doing a home swap for vacation?

Home Exchange is a service that facilitates home owners in different areas to do a "swap" for vacations with over 40,000 listings available. Have you used this service? What did you think of it? Let me know down below in the comments.

This has the potential of being very cost effective, especially if you're traveling with a large group (since you get the whole home for the trip). I can imagine a large family all traveling to Orlando realizing a really good savings and value out of something like this. There are coupons available for the service:

Swap your home for vacation! Save 30% on Home Exchange services using code: dealshe72010

Save 20% on Home Exchange using code: cdispatch10. Swap your homes for your vacation now!

Enjoy Unlimited Exchanges for only $9.95/month! Sign up with Home Exchange now!

Travel News: First Online Travel Agency to Offer Flights+Amtrak...

05-13-14 Travel news from Cheapair.com:

CheapAir.com has just become the first online travel agency in the United States to offer both flight and Amtrak railway reservations on a single website. Travelers may now mix and match flight and railway fares to create the most convenient and cost-effective travel itineraries available online.

Now Available: See Amtrak fares in your flight search


If you're heading to Sin City, you can Get $10 off your flight to Las Vegas - This week only!

Renting a scooter for Orlando theme parks

There are miles and miles of theme parks to walk through in Orlando.  Our first year, we tried to do as many parks as possible in 8 days.  Halfway through, we thought our feet were going to fall off. ;-)


If you're traveling with grandparents or those with disabilities it can be quite expensive to rent scooters at the theme parks (think $50 a day plus deposit).
There is a cheaper way though. Sun Mobility will deliver a scooter right to your hotel and pick it up when you're done. They fold up for travel in the trunk of most vehicles and best of all, they start at $65.00 for THREE days! It's a real savings over in park rental.  You can even add a canopy to protect them from the elements (think Florida sun).


-Katie

Orlando Int'l Airport Page is now NOT under construction.

It's been a busy week. Between putting this blog together, to working on the Facebook page, to getting our studio operational for filming to working on the YouTube channel page and getting our channel trailer shot it's been hard to get all of the pages above serviceable.

Today I've added a page with information about arriving and departing Orlando International Airport (MCO) -HERE.
There are convenient walk throughs with photos so that you'll know where you are and where you need to go once you get there.


I hope you find it helpful.

-Jerry

Here's a FREE Vacation Countdown Timer

Timeanddate.com have a FREE vacation countdown timer that you can customize for you next trip and save as a web bookmark.

Click here to check it out.

When the countdown completes, the airplane will actually take off.

Got a really good deal in my in-box just now from Cruise Direct...

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has a really good deal going for bookings this week if you're sailing with a party of 3 or 4.

7 Night Bermuda Cruise on the Grandeur of the Seas from $399 on CruiseDirect.com. Book Today! AND your third & fourth guests cruise FREE. Plus get up to $400 in on-board credits & more via the direct link above!

Coupon codes for Cheap-o-Air...

Just got this in my email:
Use Promo Code TRAVEL20 & Save up to $20* on all tickets with minimum Two Passengers on CheapOair. Book Now.
And...
Snag Roundtrip Flights UNDER $150. Get up to $15 Off with Code TRAVEL15. BOOK NOW!

Check out our past Florida vacation photo albums on our new Getaway Facebook page.

We've posted many of our past pictures from Florida on our new Facebook page: YouTube's Getaway.

The one good thing about Facebook is that they make it very easy to upload lots of photos (unlike here on blogger). We've got albums on Olrando (multiple years) and our week in Pensacola when we rented a beach house right on the Gulf of Mexico.

Gosh we love Florida ;-)

Here's a video collection of some of our photos I put on a separate YouTube channel of ours a few years ago:

-Jerry

Starting a New YouTube Travel Channel and Blog: The Getaway



Well we're in the process of starting a new YouTube travel channel and all of the associated things that go with that.  

We used to watch The Travel Channel on TV all the time, but it's gone downhill fast.  Now it's mainly populated by food shows and ghost hunters.  They ought to change their name to The Paranormal Food Network ;)

Katie and I LOVE going to Florida and travel in general.  We've been to Orlando and Pensacola four years in a row and we wanted to share our passion with you.

This blog will be a home for the many links, discounts, steals & deals, that we find along the way and can share with you.  Once we get the channel up and running it's going to be great, it's going to be fun, and my hope is, it's going to SAVE YOU money on your trips.  In fact, we'll show you how you can take HUGE trips and come home without a mountain of debt hanging over your head.  Don't let anyone tell you it can't be done, that you have to put it on a credit card because that's just flat not true.

We're planning a BIG trip to Orlando Florida (about 320 days from now) and that will be our early focus with the channel.  We'll cover ways to save on airfare, hotel, parks, dining and much, much more. 

So I hope you'll follow us on here, join us on YouTube when we get it up and running within the next week or two (We'll post a link when it's firing on most of it's cylinders) and join us on our facebook page too:  https://www.facebook.com/YouTubeGetaway

Thanks and happy travels,
Jerry & Katie