Travel bargains for military personnel

Servicemen and servicewomen have a world of travel bargains available. Here are some areas to explore:

More for Your Money: How to cope with high summer airfare prices

If you're hoping to book airline tickets for your summer vacation, you may be feeling some extra pain in your pocketbook. A trifecta of...

How to beat the gas-price woes

President's Day weekend seemed to be a turning point for gasoline prices, which look to be increasing faster than a speeding bullet. If...

Travel experts share bargain-hunting tips

If you don't know where you're going on vacation this year, you may not be indecisive. You might just be a bargain hunter.

Online coupons help make travel a daily deal

Lots of people are Groupon groupies; they sign up for this daily deal coupon site (or others like it) to get discounts where they live.

More for Your Money: Four-star Maui on a two-star budget

Condo by the beach with pool and ocean view: $129 including taxes.

Vacation? I've got a coupon for that

My husband, Eric, and I are usually do-it-yourselfers, but on our first trip to the Boundary Waters between Canada and Minnesota, we paid an...

How to haggle in Europe

At Europe's lively open-air markets and bazaars, bargaining for merchandise is the accepted and expected method of setting a price....

Saving money when traveling overseas

An American in Paris today may feel like the poet Rodolfo in the opera "La Bohème" — so romantic, so impoverished. A mediocre...

Cheap-seat basics for air travelers

With help from Matt Daimler, founder of SeatGuru, a website designed to help passengers find comfortable airplane seats, and Randy Petersen,...

Money options on your travels abroad

"Money alone sets all the world in motion," said Publilius Syrus, an ancient Latin writer known for aphorisms. But how do you set your money...

More For Your Money: Simple and fun Valentine's Day trips

With Valentine's Day two weeks away, hotels are romancing travelers' pocketbooks with Champagne, chocolates, flowers and more. Hand over...

More for Your Money: What's at stake in fight between American Airlines and online travel agencies

Call it "The Case of the Disappearing Flights."

Bargain guide to Santa Barbara's hotels, restaurants and attractions

I pulled aside the curtain and peered out the motel window. Palm trees swayed gently in the breeze. A cyclist pedaled along the oceanfront....

More for Your Money: Locating a travel, shopping or dining deal by GPS

Checked in lately? On your smart phone, that is.

Planning a vacation in 2011? Expect to pay more

Americans are venturing out again as they start to shake off the recession. That may be good for their spirits, but it's bad for their...

More for your money: Bargain airfare tips

Tired of all these winter airfare sales? Of course you're not.

More for your money: Frequent-flier programs

Like the airline industry that spawned them, frequent-flier programs have encountered turbulence and are undergoing major changes. The...

Before you head to Europe, consider travel insurance

This is a troubling time for Europe-bound travelers. The U.S. State Department on Oct. 3 issued a travel alert that cited "the potential for...

In-flight Wi-Fi fees: How to get discounts

I had been reluctant to try in-flight Wi-Fi because of the cost, but when I found a discount that cut the fee to $7.46 on a recent...