Category: Traveling on a Budget

Beyond the beaches and theme parks, there are a quite a few places in Orlando where fashionistas get to snuggle up with Gucci, Prada, Michael Kors, Tiffany, Versace, Valentino, Kenneth Cole and so many more high-end fashion stores while their hubbies or life partners play a round of golf or spend a day doing something they love. Though some men dig it it, too, especially when they get bargain priced Nike shoes and a pair of Rayban glasses. The one problem between you and that coveted Dooney & Bourke bag or a Chanel dress are the big-ticket prices. Luckily, while on your Best Vacations Ever (BVE) (bestvactionsever.com) adventure trip to

Vacation is a time for relaxing, forgetting your worries, and leaving your stresses behind. Unfortunately, pre-vacation ends up being a time of high-stress and last-minute panic attacks. You have to go to the bank, stop by the bookstore, buy a new swim suit, print out your boarding passes, and then go back to the store because you forgot to buy sunscreen. Oh, and then there’s packing. We can’t help with your errands, but we can help you pack.

Try these packing tips for travel to lighten your load and hopefully lessen your stress.

• First and foremost, start packing a few days before your trip. Rush packing lends itself to the overstuffing of unnecessary items.
• Check the weather so you’re not tempted to bring your whole closet “just in case” it gets hot or cold.
• Call the hotel to see if they provide towels, blow dryers, and other toiletries. No need to double up.
• Find out if the resort has a laundry room on site. If they do, put half of your outfits back in their drawers.
• Choose a comfortable outfit to travel in that you can wear again during your trip.
• Roll your clothes, don’t fold them.
• Bring a multi-purpose electronic. No need to bring your iPod, laptop, and your Kindle if you have a device that serves all three purposes.
• Color coordinate. If your tops and bottoms are in the same color family or they at least complement each other, you can mix and match your way through your vacation.
• Wear your walking shoes and pack your flip flops. Flats and sandals take up less room in your bag.
• Use your beach bag as a carry on.
• And don’t forget to leave room for souvenirs!

Best Vacations Ever! by Preferred Guest Resorts wants you to have the best vacation ever, and part of that includes giving you all of the information you need to make the best of it.  These packing tips for travel are meant to do just that.

Affordable family vacations… an oxymoron? Not according to Best Vacations Ever! by Preferred Guest Resorts.

Turns out, the secret behind affordable family vacations is private-branded resorts. Choose to stay at private-branded resorts, like those offered by Preferred Guest Resorts’ Best Vacations Ever!, and it’s possible for you, your family, and your friends to enjoy an affordable vacation that is free from stress, worry, and inflated costs due to marketing.

When you choose to stay at major hotel brands, you are not just paying for food and shelter; you are paying for their brand recognition. What if you could get the quality and the comfort without the high costs? Major hotel brands pump up their prices because they know they can, and you pay them because you don’t know there is an alternative.

Most vacation membership clubs cater to major names which have a lot to offer, but they tend to be commercial and formulaic. The small, private-label hotels and resorts, like Orlando’s Calypso Cay Resort and Bahama Bay Resort are hidden gems. They offer sincere service, unique features and better prices.

Best Vacations Ever! by Preferred Guest Resorts delivers memorable vacation experiences to all of its guests by offering:

• A simplistic approach
• Flexibility
• Endless possibilities
• Creative freedom

To give travel-lovers a taste of what these resorts have to offer, Best Vacations Ever! offers free promotional vacation packages that blow other vacation membership clubs out of the water, or should we say, off of the resort.

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Everyone needs – and wants – a vacation. Money is what usually gets in the way or limits what you can do on vacation. Well it’s time to close up that computer and plug into a much-needed, low-cost, low-stress vacation. The glory of Best Vacations Ever (BVE) promotional vacation packages provided by Preferred Guest Resorts (PGR) is that you can save hundreds of dollars off your travel budget with typically included complimentary accommodations (minus taxes, resort fees, incidentals and any other extraneous expenses; see BVE’s terms and conditions on bestvacationsever.com). Imagine seeing places and experiencing phenomenal destinations, traveling at your own pace with

Oh, the glory and true cultural experiences of traveling! There’s really not words to truly describe the personal feelings and emotions of experiencing dream-come-true adventures , though as a write,r I can often find too many, as with this blog. Let me tell yo,u every place I have visited is way better than its pictures or an amateur  video on many social outlets.  though between the bestvacationsever.com website and You Tube, it can find that it really gets the juices and desires to travel flowinl. As mentioned in Part 1 of the two-part series, Cheap Tricks Part 1; A Dream Vacation on a Fixed Travel Budget, money is the biggest issue when traveling and just how fast they

It’s practically summer year round in Florida, which is always color-coated with casts of characters, travelers from all over the world, and of all travel types for a variety of reasons. The sun rises every morning over the Central Florida region, baking the pavements and beaches, and firing up the theme parks, spas, attractions and restaurant grills for locals and visiting guests. What may seem like an ordinary day in Orlando actually finds the surprises of new and undiscovered adventures every day, during every visit to the Sunshine State. This summer 2014, Orlando is not only kicking up its extra adventures and attractions list, its full of special events, grand openings and anniversaries that are drawing out even more locals and traveling visitors. Summer, of course includes Independence Day for the U.S. and brilliant July 4^th fireworks displays at the theme parks and all over Central Florida so check out one of my personal, legendary alternative favorites below in a short list of outstanding Orlando summer 2014 events.

A fury has been simmering, sizzling and nesting in Central Florida for a long time has now hit the area, and it’s not for the faint of heart. Now preying on Central Florida theme-park visitors is Falcon’s Fury™: The Ride at Busch Gardens^® Tampa, and it’s creating quite a buzz amid the current theme-park wars, attraction lovers, thrill riders and Central Florida visitors, with daytrippers heading 90 minutes away from Orlando to Tampa to enjoy Bush Gardens, the sister parks at SeaWorld Orlando®. One thing’s for sure: This fury is bound to scare the hats, shorts and sandals off nervous riders and super thrill

Napa Valley is the largest, most beautiful and most copious wine-producing regions in the United States. Wine Country, as Napa Valley, California is dubiously known. It has a reputation as being an adult or couple’s destination, but it could not be further than the truth. Napa Valley is family friendly with plentiful attractions, activities and both family and adult

There’s no place like home, especially when it is the ever-growing Orlando, Florida. My 43-year-old friend Jay grew up in suburb of Orlando, graduating from local public schools with high honors and also from the University of Florida where he met and eventually married his wife, Carrie, many years ago. It wasn’t long before incredible work options drove them off to live amid the west coast of United States. Jay and Carrie have always been avid travelers, even with their eventual two kids in tow since your ages but who are now teenagers – a bubbly girl, Abby, and bottle-of-lightening tween boy named Jonah, both of which share their parents joy of travel and adventure. Growing up in the Orlando area, with family still here, Jay and Carrie and are well versed with Orlando and Walt Disney World® Resort, knowing and experiencing the parks many times since near inception as young ones and as adults with their children since they were all but 2 years old – their last visit to the theme parks being 5 years ago.

Get out your birthday hats, horns and balloons because one of Orlando’s big three theme parks, SeaWorld Orlando®, turned 50 in March 2014. One thing’s for sure, Orlando theme parks really know how to throw a party in grand style, and SeaWorld Orlando has already begun its whale-sized event. SeaWorld debuted 5 decades ago in San Diego, California followed by SeaWorld Orlando and SeaWorld San Antonio, which all have already begun SeaWorld’s 18-month “Sea of Surprises” celebration for visitors. You and your family (up to four) can visit Orlando and join all the birthday special events without all the high-cost retail travel expenses when you book one of Best Vacations Ever’s (BVE) low-cost, traveler-