Even when you’re traveling in a country known to be expensive, there are still ways to save a few pennies here and there.  Multiply that by several family members, and the savings really add up!
In Luxembourg, that small and expensive Grand Duchy situated next to Belgium, France, and Germany, families can save a bundle with the Luxembourg Card.
The card features include unlimited FREE use of trains and buses, along with FREE admission to 56 tourist attractions, including museums, castles, sightseeing trips, and more.
The Luxembourg Card is priced depending on the number of days that it is good for.  You can …read more

Visiting attractions and museums can put a serious bite out of your vacation funds, and smart travelers are constantly on the lookout for way to reduce these numbers.  It’s a big dilemma – you want to see as much as you can, but every dollar you spend is one less dollar spent doing something else.
CityPass offers ticket booklets that slash admission prices to major attractions by nearly 50%.  The booklets contain the actual admission ticket (not a coupon or voucher), and if you plan on seeing a number of attractions around town, the savings starts adding up fast.  For …read more

When you’re staying at a hotel for a lengthy period of time, or when you expect to have numerous items charged to your room, it’s sometimes difficult to go through the print out at check out time and try to remember what all the charges were for.  It’s important to go through each hotel charge, because mistakes do happen (fraud, too).  But sometimes it’s hard to remember if you picked up that round of drinks of Tuesday night or if you had room service on Friday morning.
To make check out time a whole lot faster, when signing for restaurant, …read more

If you have a college bound student in your household, you may be spending some vacation time visiting college campuses.   You should spend some time checking out the campus on your own, getting an unbiased feel for the place, and then arrange for a tour with school officials.
But campuses can provide lots of other fun experiences, even if attending classes is not in your future.

Most colleges have great architecture and buildings, often with very interesting history.  You can usually find someone who can share with your the history of the campus, covering some of those urban legends that don’t …read more

Valentine Day is going to be here before we know it and again we will wait for the very last minute before getting flowers. 
Maybe what we need to do is think ahead and buy a potted spring flowers that for one would last longer and it could be planted in our garden for future enjoyment.
It is a fact that so many of us have either become unemployed or beginning to find it hard to make it on the income we are making. So maybe what we have to do is think ahead and think about the plants we want …read more

CNN has a article today how people that have become out of work have decided to reduce their monthly costs by cancelling their cablevision and going to the internet for their TV and movie watching.
These are hard times and only going to get harder.
CNN’s article shows where you have to go to do this.
The article is “More turning to Web to watch TV, movies”.
If you find this interesting, it may possibly be an answer to one of your problems.