Fare Trackers Can Save A Bundle on Airfare: Frugal Fun Tip, May ’09

We were in Spain and Morocco last month, visiting my daughter who’s studying in Granada this semester. When we first found out she was going, airfares were very over $700, and with three of us, we didn’t think we’d make the trip.

But we signed up for a fare tracker to let us know when the fare went below $600 per person. When it did, we grabbed the flight. Even got a nonstop from New York to Málaga, amazingly enough.

Ours was on Orbits, I think (might have been Travelocity). You can also sign up for fare alerts and e-newsletters at several dedicated websites, including Kayak.com, FareCompare.com and Yapta.com, as well as my old standby SmarterTravel.com. And of course, most airlines have an e-bulletin too, with some pretty amazing deals sometimes.

For more frugal travel tips–a whole chapter, in fact–check out Shel’s 280-page e-book, The Penny-Pinching Hedonist. At $8.50, it’ll save ghe typical reader hundreds of dollars every year on FUN.

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