Spring is breaking and it's time of the year when college students break out and if you are like us, the last thing you want to do on a getaway is put up with the overcrowded vacation spot. According to the aggregate hotel booking data from Cheaptickets, it has identify the top ten spots where college students are headed in March 2006 and you will do well avoiding these places.

Miami, FL

Daytona, FL

Key West, FL

South Padre Island, TX

Bahamas

Panama City

Jamaica

Cancun

Acapulco

San Jose Cabo

For more ideas on where you should go instead, check our recommended spring break vacation packages.

Also according to Washington Post's weekly bargain, you can secure a last-minute three-night Carnival cruise to the Bahamas that starts at $299 per person double . The deal applies to the March 2 sailing of the Fantasy from Port Canaveral, Fla., and the March 10 sailing of the Fascination from Miami. Taxes are $34 extra. Brochure fare is $699. Carnival Info.

For our friends from UK, we found the following late deals on TimesOnline, recommendations include deals to Marrakesh, Madeira, Seychelles and more... (Go to URL)

January 27, 2006 11:22 - Last-Minute Bereavement Fares

We came across this great tip in Peter Greenberg's book, The Travel Detective and again from someone this week about how you can land a great discount of your airfare if it's for bereavement reasons.

Apparently someone needed to get to a funeral in the mid west. He called airline after airline, and they all quoted close to $1,000.00 round trip..........American gave them "Bereavement Fares" of less than 400.00 and when he needed to change the outbound and was told he couldn't citing "no seats" as the main reason, but after speaking with a supervisor, he changed it and put a note in the computer that anything he wanted changed was to be done at no charge.

We do not know this person but the one thing we picked up is this, death can come unexpectedly into the family, and last-minute travel is inevitable. We are not suggesting you use this as a reason but we would like you to know that there is such a thing called beareavement fares. Always pick up the phone to call, try American first of course!

January 12, 2006 09:20 - Cheap Winter Escape!

We want to be totally upfront with you, so is Fairfield Resort. Invest 2 hours of your time in a timeshare presentation on the benefits of acquiring ownership in a Fairfield timeshare resort and you get to secure incredible deals like these...

Orlando 3 Nights for $189 includes Hotel Stay + Park Tickets

Ft. Lauderdale 2 Nights for $79 Hotel Stay + Dinner Certificate

Daytona 2 Nights for $69 Hotel Stay + Tickets to Daytona USA

2 hours presentation aside, you must be 21 years of age or older, employed full time or retired, have a minimum annual household income of at least $60,000 and must not have visited a Fairfield resort within the last 6 months. And if anything goes wrong there is a 15-day money back guarantee clause based upon written request.

Fairfield Resorts is very reputable company owned by Cendant Corporation (NYSE:CD) which also own Resort Condominiums International (RCI), the largest timeshare exchange company in the world, Avis, the world's second-largest general use car rental company internationally. Other hotel brands own by them include Ramada, Days Inn, Howard Johnson, and Travelodge.

Since airfares are not included, it would make sense for those are near the following vicinities where Fairfield resorts reside...Sedona, Pagosa Springs, Wisconsin Dells, Smoky Mountains, Williamsburg, Oahu, Nashville, Myrtle Beach, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, Kona, Hancock-Berkshires, Branson, Alexandria.

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