Savvy travelers know there are more ways to save money on a trip than just purchasing cheap airplane tickets, discount hotel rooms, or discount travel packages. By visiting travel deal aggregator sites you can review multiple daily deals from sites like Groupon, GiltCity, and Tippr.
The problem with looking for deals being offered someplace you are planning on visiting is that you can end up receiving daily emails for non-travel related bargains such as laser hair removal and oil changes. Travel deal aggregator sites allow you to review travel related bargains for things such as half priced dinners, museum tickets, performances, and city tours.
The following are travel deal aggregator sites worth visiting prior to traveling:
Travelzoo negotiates its own Local Deals which focus on travel discounts offering half price deals (sometimes even greater discounts) for activities such as massages, champagne lunches, four course dinners, and ballet tickets. Most Travelzoo negotiated discounts are available for purchase for only two to three days. Travelzoo currently offers deals in 31 U.S. cities, but only offers a couple of deals in any one city at any point in time.
YipIt finds more deals in individual cities because it pulls up offers from 326 group buying services. YipIt offers deals in 20 North American cities including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, OR, and Toronto. Travelers have the ability to filter search results by checking the deal categories they are interested in.
Dealery offers deals pulled from about 24 group shopping sites for 87 cities in Canada and the U.S. It offers fewer filters than YipIt. A nice feature of Dealery is that a user does not have to sign up for daily emails. Instead users simply go to the site, select the city they will be traveling to, and view deals for that city in a user friendly list format. Searches can be based on any of nine categories, including dining and night life, entertainment and activities.
Dealmap pulls up deals from 250 deal sources in the U.S. and displays results on a map or as a list. Apps for iPhones and Androids are available that automatically pull up deals on smartphones based on your current location. www.cheapfares.com