Since I'm all about adventure travel, it was interesting to read on the SmarterTravel Web site that several companies are offering discounts on 2009 trips. Actually, the entry offers up about 100 of the "best discounted trips," although the choices are from only five different companies.
For instance, Mountain Travel Sobek, an expensive company, is offering to cut $400 off a dogsledding trip to Sweden's Ice Hotel (how's that for a wildly different vacation?) It includes four days of dog sledding and two days of sledding with reindeer.
BUT…the trip costs about $6,500 for 10 days, including internal airfares and the single supplement! And that does NOT include airfare to get to Stockholm. Shocking.
$400 isn't going to make a dent. Mountain Travel Sobek is one of those companies that I likely will never travel with, but I do enjoy looking at their offerings and wondering how the other half…or is it the other 2 percent?…live.
But it might be worth checking to see if the discounts offered by Backroads, iExplore, G.A.P. Adventures or Overseas Adventure Travel (which is eliminating the single supplement on 24 adventures as I wrote about here) are worthwhile, in terms of your finances.
Photo: Iguazu Falls, Argentina side (as opposed to Brazil)
By Ellen Perlman
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