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Your Rate is Negotiable

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 Posted in Cheap Africa Travel, Cheap Asia Travel, Cheap Europe Travel, Cheap Latin America Travel, Cheap North America Travel, Travel bargains, Vacation deals | No Comments »

It's important to remember one key point when you are traveling: hotel/hostel/guesthouse rates are negotiable. Most backpackers figure this out in a few days and some go overboard using it as their guiding mantra for the next year on the road. ...

Where the Travel Bargains Are This Year

Friday, March 5th, 2010 Posted in Cheap Asia Travel, Cheap Latin America Travel, Cheap North America Travel, Destination reports, General, Perceptive Travel, Travel bargains, Vacation deals | 2 Comments »

Having a book out on the world's cheapest destinations makes me a bit opinionated about which countries offer the best bang for your budget. While those options stay relatively constant, there are fluctuations from year to year, or even in ...

Pig Roast in Bali, Simple Life in Morocco, and Mardi Gras in Vermont

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 Posted in Cheap Africa Travel, Cheap Asia Travel, Cheap North America Travel, Leffel projects, Perceptive Travel, Travel books, Travel music | No Comments »

It's time for the March '10 issue of Perceptive Travel, where we bop around three continents, groove on some new world music, and talk about some travel books worth reading. (Or not.) The multi-talented Zora O'Neill---who is the only person I ...

Cracks are Showing in Malaysia

Friday, February 19th, 2010 Posted in Cheap Asia Travel, Destination reports, International living/working | 5 Comments »

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="269" caption="       THE SUDS-SWILLING THREAT TO SOCIETY"][/caption] Malaysia has for decades had a reputation as a place that was stable to the point of being kind of boring. A strictly controlled media, a mostly Muslim population keeping a ...

Good Advice on Flying for Less

Friday, January 15th, 2010 Posted in Cheap Asia Travel, Cheap Europe Travel, Cheap Latin America Travel, Cheap North America Travel, Leffel projects, Travel bargains, Vacation deals | 2 Comments »

I get quoted a fair bit in the media as a bargain travel expert, but I'm always excited when it happens in a magazine I actually subscribe to by choice. That happened this month when I was quoted in the ...