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Budget-Friendly Travel Tips for Fall
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Orbitz.com Senior Editor Jeanenne Tomatore on the best deals for fall travel.
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- Date Sep 24, 2012
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Don't let the term Nazis in full you according to our next guest now is the perfect -- -- plan a budget currently get away -- -- -- Taurus -- senior editor Orbitz dot com.
Ask you first and foremost to need it looks hike 68% according to you do.
Of consumers are planning a vacation.
-- wrong -- thinking that's actually a big boost right now.
-- that number does seem very high considering this is the shoulder season for a lot of these destinations and interestingly.
Two out of three respondents to our survey told us that they're planning on using a week or more a vacation.
To travel less -- a lot of people have vacation days that they -- -- -- before the end of the year with a reason I ask is that kind of plays in the consumer confidence it looks like consumers according orbits -- warmer competent also -- spending 500 to a thousand that's about the average amount of money that they plan to spend.
Is that a higher number than what you seen in years past.
You know I don't necessarily think that's -- higher number than what we've seen in years past I think what we're seeing it as you speak to consumer confidence.
Is also that this idea of this fall shoulder season.
That you.
More and more people are taking advantage of that okay so where are they going and that's the next big question where people planning to go -- -- the hot -- -- now.
Well when we look at that destinations that have some of the best deals this time -- here you're looking at places like.
Rocky Mountains -- collar rat -- those ski town is that when they opened.
Come late November they're going to be pretty expensive but right now places like -- you can get for 56%.
Cheaper.
Then their regular season asked spend 45% cheaper so those mountain towns are -- option.
Also the Caribbean the great option -- read about for example.
33% cheaper than they are during their high season so that's nice option in Aruba is also considered outside the hurricane belt -- well let's take a group so that when it got careless -- assure viewers -- -- -- -- San Diego DC.
And then also crews in the Caribbean I think that's going it seemed to go ahead San Diego.
-- -- Diego we're seeing prices in Orange County for example hotels on average is -- 103 dollars and ninety.
Washington DC we're seeing that most vacationers are looking to take city escapes this fall.
DC's one of our cheapest cities average hotel rates -- -- just a 144 dollars -- the only city that -- that out in terms of price.
Is Las Vegas just over a hundred dollars an -- on average.
And then taking a cruise is a great option in the fall on again for the Caribbean and -- this ships can avoid some of those storms when they come into play.
And you can -- -- -- night cruises out of Miami port Canaveral firm and a 199 dollars a person and you're not concerned at all we we that we have this discussion every year -- outward about hurricane season well.
Well certainly you have to be aware that it's hurricane season in the Caribbean -- our survey respondents told us that 13 of travelers -- actually planning to travel to -- prime destinations have something to be aware that keep your eye on -- they deals are so hot that people are willing to.
You know -- -- the chance of some of those storms to take advantage of the great deals in Neenah Paper prices right.
Why not go forward you know that the -- went right -- findings from you guys Jeanne thank you very much.
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