More on Last Minute Travel.com

This is a GREAT site.  Jen went looking online for hotels in Chicago.. because we go with her kids we really need to have a suite.. a real live suite, not those fake ones like Comfort Suites, with a half wall to make it look like two rooms. 


So she gets on LMT.com and with a little digging finds an Embassy Suites in Downtown Chicago for $120/night LESS than their published rate.   Using LMT's details, you can find out how many rooms, stars and floors a hotel has.  


Go to Google and punch in that info and you can get an educated guess as to what hotel it might be.  We're 2 for 2 or 3 for 3 using LMT and Google.  So we are downtown for $140 a night. We were at $147 but there is another little thing online that says call for a cheaper rate, so she called and got another $7 off a night.  SCHWEET!!!!!!!!  

Travel sites for 2012

I found a great article on the NYTimes web site this morning.     19 travel sites for 2012


I will attempt to link to it. 

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/travel/19-web-sites-for-travel-savings-in-2012.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha210

Road trips

We just got back from a serious road trip from Michigan to Colorado and back in the span of a week   2800+ miles.  It wasn't that bad!  Aside from the gas expense. 


The weather was very nice.  Windy as hell on the way back but no rain until be got back to Michigan (duh!)  and no real traffic tie ups to speak of.  It was congested on I-94 but nothing too awful.   


We found a the BEST damn breakfast burrito in the world in Ft. Lupton Co.  Jen and I had just left Lyons and driving down the road we passed a sign that stated "hottest breakfast burrito in town"    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK !   (okay cars with anti-lock brakes don't do that anymore)   we pulled a U ie and by Golly... it was the best breakfast burrito I've ever had.   Santiago's in Ft. Lupton.    $2.  You will NEVER EVER find a better breakfast for $2 EVER again in your life. 


Omaha is the home of 6 different "Diners, Drive Ins and Dives'  locations.  We went to Brewburgers right off I-80 west of Omaha.  Super easy to get to.   I had a lamb burger with feta cheese and that Greek sauce I'm not going to try to spell.  Amazing stuff!  


One of the best meal days of my life.    


If you're ever passing thru Kearney NE and you're thinking about stopping for the night.. you could do a LOT worse than the Microtel in Kearney.  One heck of a room for $62! And they take dogs!    

Been a LONG time

It has been quite a while since I've put anything on this site. No one seems to notice that I have been blog free for almost a year. Which is fine. I've been to Colorado twice in the last couple years but I haven't had much to add to this blog.

We're going back out to Colorado next week to take Oscar out where he belongs... that is with Kate.

Chicago for the holidays

Thinking about a trip to Chicago for New Years.. prices are quite good for NYE. Hotwire is in the $110s for the 30th and 31st but Lastminutetravel.com has a hotel, I think it's the Wyndham for $78 (4 stars ) and the James for $95ish (4.5) stars...

Keep in mind they are a foreign company, my credit card company would not accept their charges no my card. Jen's would though SWEET!

Take the guesswork out of your hotel choice.

Jen and I are looking to go to Chicago for the 4th of July and we were perusing Hotwire and went looking at two newer sites for hotels where they don't tell you the name of the hotel until you purchase it. LastMinuteTravel.com and Travelocity's Top Secret Hotels.

It turns out that LastMinuteTravel.com lists the number of hotel rooms the hotel has available. A quick Google search indicated the hotel we were going to "steal" was the Westin on N. Michigan Ave. They show 521 rooms. We were right! We think we're so smart.

Once you book it

I was going to go to Chicago today and sell this digital board advertising... but I never pulled the trigger on booking hotel and here's why.. once you book it, you own it. NO cancellations allowed.. not for weather, not for missed flights, not for a car wreck. It's yours.

I wasn't totally sure I was going, the weather turned sour so I didn't go.

You can always stop at a Biggby or a Panera on the way, and book the hotel. Yes you may pay more, but..