Well, I just did travelocity for the heck of it - $483 for a hotel (Days Inn) for 3 days and a roundtrip plane ticket in August 2007.
That didn't include a car though - my business is actually in Odgen, UT, which seems to be pretty close to Salt Lake City - the hotel was 10 miles away so I imagine that renting a bottom end car would be more cost efficient than taking a cab 2x/day.
I'll call my car ins. co. about car rentals.
Can't beat that - but they did put me on a "red-eye" flight back to Philly (departs 8:40 p.m. and arrives at 5 a.m.).
Come to think of it - my sister flies "red-eye" flights a lot to save money. I'll just bring my Ipod and maybe I'll open up a Frequent Flyer Card - Mastercard? Visa?
What do you do? Charge all of your flights on that one card to get credit?
The airline was called "Frontier" - never heard of them.
JIMOhio,
No offense but a Residence Inn is hardly "frugal." I'm sure they are nice though and don't judge you for the needs you had when you traveled.
Does anyone know if you can negotiate with hotels "upfront?" That is, if I stay at Days Inn like travelocity pointed me to and then I approach the manager and say, "Gee, I liked it here. . .I'd like to buy 5 nights upfront for the next year and work them off?"
Can you do that and maybe get a 30% discount or something?
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