USA Package Tours
Jun 4th 2007, 9:56 am
#16
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Re: USA Package Tours
Jet Blue sends info all the time with special deals. Also AmEx does.
Jun 4th 2007, 10:00 am
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Re: USA Package Tours
Jun 4th 2007, 11:01 am
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Re: USA Package Tours
Queens, Brooklyn. NJ, couple of miles through Holland tunnel. Of course you have to be a member.
http://www.costco.com/Warehouse/Locator.aspx
Personally booked a couple of trips on AA.com. We got flights, hotel, car for less then we were quoted for the hotel.
http://www.aavacations.com/
Reg. Frank R.
http://www.costco.com/Warehouse/Locator.aspx
Personally booked a couple of trips on AA.com. We got flights, hotel, car for less then we were quoted for the hotel.
http://www.aavacations.com/
Reg. Frank R.
Jun 4th 2007, 11:07 am
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Jun 4th 2007, 11:17 am
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Re: USA Package Tours
Just thought of another one - the post about AA vacations prompted me to think of the AAA (Automobile Association of America).
I joined a few weeks ago (even though our car is under warranty) purely to get the travel discounts and indeed one of my friends didn't even have a car but joined the AAA for the discounts and trip planning!
The AAA offers and assists in vacation packages in their travel stores and to a limited extent, online (I haven't used them though so can't verify if they're any good or not).
Each State has it's own 'AAA'.
http://www.aaa.com
My AAA card entitles me to discounts of 10% on Amtrak, discounts on the rack rates at the Hilton Hotel group, Best Western, Marriott hotel group, Choice Hotel/Motel group, Hyatt hotels, La Quinta, Starwood hotel group etc.
The card also offers discounts at theme parks, shops and restaurants.
If you're in the UK and borrowing a car belonging to a friend or relative, your AAA card will cover you for roadside repairs too.....I once broke down in my sister's car on the M1 and had left my foreign AA card at home......
I joined a few weeks ago (even though our car is under warranty) purely to get the travel discounts and indeed one of my friends didn't even have a car but joined the AAA for the discounts and trip planning!
The AAA offers and assists in vacation packages in their travel stores and to a limited extent, online (I haven't used them though so can't verify if they're any good or not).
Each State has it's own 'AAA'.
http://www.aaa.com
My AAA card entitles me to discounts of 10% on Amtrak, discounts on the rack rates at the Hilton Hotel group, Best Western, Marriott hotel group, Choice Hotel/Motel group, Hyatt hotels, La Quinta, Starwood hotel group etc.
The card also offers discounts at theme parks, shops and restaurants.
If you're in the UK and borrowing a car belonging to a friend or relative, your AAA card will cover you for roadside repairs too.....I once broke down in my sister's car on the M1 and had left my foreign AA card at home......
Jun 4th 2007, 11:27 am
#21
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Re: USA Package Tours
The Americans are big on going for many holidays per year for a week as they get so little time. Usually two weeks per year for the first 5 years then 3 weeks. (I worked for a German company on 5th Ave. for about 4 years and got a month per year from the start, very unusual!) Friends of mine have it down to a fine art. they choose a week where there is a bank holiday, so you would only work four days that week anyway, then take 2 personal days and TWO vacation days. You fly the night you finish work and have seven full days in Hawaii for two days vacation. Next bank holiday you take your third personal day (you usually get 3 per year) and 3 days from your vacation and have 7 days in Mexico. There! That is two full weeks hols and you only used up 5 days of your vacation time (plus your personal days) You still have another two weeks to shuffle around! I just worked with two women who spun their three weeks per year into what seemed like a vacation almost every month!!! I loved hearing the explanations, 
One personal day, Martin Luther King day, a day for the day owed us from the Sunday we had to work and two days vacation time = 7 days in Bermuda!
One personal day, Martin Luther King day, a day for the day owed us from the Sunday we had to work and two days vacation time = 7 days in Bermuda!
Though OH doesn't get personal days only sick days. He can't plan them like personal days.
But he took his holiday last week so only had to take 4 vacation days as he tagged it to a bank holiday.
Jun 4th 2007, 9:30 pm
#22
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Re: USA Package Tours
Are you looking for in or out of the US mainland? Our agency is an AMEX affiliate so we of course do have AMEX Vacations, but we also use Funjet, Apple and Vacation Express to name a few. Also the airlines themselves have vacation packages. You can go to a travel agency, normally they don't put anything onto the cost of these, at least ours and others I know of don't.
Jun 5th 2007, 1:12 am
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Re: USA Package Tours
We got 3 personal days and I think 3 or 4 sick days they can use the sick days as vacation as long as they did not count it on the 'sheet' Just call in sick the day before or the day after! I tell you Bru, they seemed always to be on vacation!
Jun 6th 2007, 7:50 am
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