Cheap Flights

For decades, I've been traveling 1-5 times a year out of the country, usually south of the border. We all learn a few tricks, acquire a few habits.

My new 'obsession'.  Since buying into the UVC program, now the trick is ... cheapest way to get there and back; Mexico, DR,  Costa Rica, Jamaica, etc.  I've been reading blogs .. groups .. newsfeeds.  Even spent $7 on a downloaded 'book' the other day.   Five minutes into reading it...  it paid for itself 10x over.  Gave me some advice on how to use some 'secret/hidden' features of a few popular websites and..   tada' ... bingo.  Found the magic on my first try.  Now, there are dozens of other tricks out there.  But as I type this I'm looking at a cool feature I'd never seen before.  I've got my dates in there and walking up and down the depart and arrival times and able to zero into the best dates overall.  Where the F' has this been all my life?  Compare this to ones personal calendar and the fun/magic begins.

I'd made some reservations at a resort in Hualtaco, MX then when to book the flights a few weeks back and realized my mistake and learned a life lesson.  Make your FLIGHT reservations first (or at least find them and put on hold) before booking the Hotel.  I'd always reversed that.  In this case, there were no flights on the days I'd chose!  Never had that happen before.  But now, I can go one step further.  I can walk through the dates on the flights, optimize the cost, then mirror that process on the resort. Cross reference the two .. and .. shazam!  Book it Danno'!  For 10 extra minutes of my time I can save literally ... thousand$ of dollar$.  Bam!

My next plan of attack is to find the best solution to track and utlize points for these flights, over and beyond the process I currently use.  Yep .. that's in the next chapter of the book I'm referencing.

YOLO   .... LTD ...  pick your motto.  In the end.... Live Your Dream!