Lisa’s Travel Deal of the week: Barthelona!

Of all the cities I’ve visited in Europe, Barcelona is the one I could picture myself living in. Admittedly that doesn’t require a huge stretch of the imagination given how damn captivating this city is, but there was just something about its combination of beachy, laidback vibe with a big city buzz that had me hooked faster than you can say ‘sangria’. Thus my favourite deal this week is for the Porta Fira Barcelona, a brand new design hotel in the L’Hospitalet area of the city described by a colleague as a ‘ribbed red peppermill’. And it’s only $86 (€60) per night! Click here for more info: http://www.travelzoo.com/au/hotels/international/851383/.

Jeeves, get me a Fiji!

When this deal landed on my desk, my approval could be encapsulated in just one sentence: ‘You had me at butler service’. Because that is what you get with this 8-night Fiji package. Butler service. Along with flights from Sydney, accommodation in an ocean view room at Outrigger on the Lagoon Fiji, spa treatments, VIP airport transfers and – wait for it – FJD$1000 (about $600 Aussie dollars) credit per room to spend on food, booze or at the spa. All for only $1690 per person. Don’t walk, run to book right here: http://www.travelzoo.com/au/holidays/841291/.

Lisa’s Travel Deal of the Week

Short of being paid to go (and if you find someone who does such a thing, please let me know!), holidays don’t get much cheaper than campervan relocations, where you pay a nominal amount, anywhere from $1-$25 a day, to drive a van from Point A to Point B and experience all the hijinks and hilarity in between. You have to be pretty flexible with when and where you’re willing to go, but this week we spotted that standbyrelocs.com currently has more routes and van types on offer  than you can poke a steering wheel at, which means you’re not going to get stuck having to drive to Darwin by tomorrow night. Click here http://www.travelzoo.com/au/holidays/833207/ for more info.

Lisa’s Travel Deal of the Week: G’day USA

They said it would never happen again, but like so many they’s before them, they got it wrong. Over the past couple of weeks, airfares to the USA have dropped to the bargain-basement prices we haven’t seen since mid-2009, when airline execs across the land swore up and down that 2010 would be about raising fares, increasing yields and just generally getting out of the gloomy depths of the GFC. And yet here we are again, with the airlines’ accountants banging their heads against their calculators while the travelling public rejoice that they can fly from Melbourne to LA for as little as $908 return including taxes.  Wanna know more? This week at Travelzoo Towers we did our round-up of the best fares in the market, which you can check out here: http://www.travelzoo.com/au/flights/828486/.

Lisa’s Travel Deal of the Week

It’s been a long time between deals for me here at SheGoes.  After some time spent tramping the wilds of Victoria, I returned to Sydney and a house move that had me convinced it would have actually just been easier to stay in the wilds of Victoria and construct a shelter from twigs and vines, Bear Grylls style. So this week, as I recover from lugging boxes up our, ‘seem quaint and European but are a nightmare when you’re carrying a couch’ front stairs, I’ve been tempted by this 4-night stay for $390 per couple at the Doubtless Bay Villas in Cable Bay on New Zealand’s North Island. I have six words for you: luxury villa with uninterrupted ocean views. Click here for more info: http://www.travelzoo.com/au/hotels/international/823587.

Lisa’s Deal of the Week

When it comes to cruising, there are plenty of agents in the sea offering cabins for next to nothing which, funnily enough, also tend to be next to the engines or akin to a matchbox in size. Every now and then though, a deal comes up that includes a cabin with actual windows AND an itinerary that’s more complex than ‘at sea’ for days on end. Creative Cruising has slashed the cost of twin oceanview cabins on the May 15th sailing of the Costa Romantica to just $1549 per person. Departing from Singapore, it stops in Ho Chi Minh City, Danang, Hong Kong, Manila and Kota Kinabalu before returning to Singapore. The price also includes one night in a Singapore hotel before or after the 14-night cruise. Click here http://au.deals.travelzoo.com/holidays/790765 for more info.

Lisa’s Deal of the Week

The concept of globalisation is often loaded with negative connotations and lots of grumbling about McDonald’s and Apple, but occasionally it can be used for good instead of evil – like when the Travelzoo New York office tells the Sydney office about some amazing Broadway deals that we can then share with you via the interweb. It’s globalisation at work, people! Tickets start from just $38 a pop, much to the dismay of my friend who recently paid much, much more than this to see a Broadway show. The offer includes classics like Phantom of the Opera, Hair and Chicago and a few random ones as well. Click here http://au.deals.travelzoo.com/holidays/783590 for more info.