Don’t forget, tomorrow is the One-Day Sale at Travel CUTS and the Adventure Travel Company:
See travel sale prices in Canada
See travel sale prices in the US
Book tomorrow and get:
For example:
13 days in Cambodia: Was $670, Now $268
8 days in Egypt: Was $775, Now $310
These are some incredible prices, so mark your calendar for Tuesday!
Travelling to Europe this summer?
If you are under 26 and have a valid ISIC card, you can purchase a Eurail Select Pass, which gives you eight days of travel to be used within two months, and you’ll automatically receive an additional two free days of travel!
Passes are valid for 3, 4 or 5 adjoining Eurail Select Pass countries.
If you don’t have an ISIC, now’s a great time to pick one up. It’s valid for a year and you can use it for discounts at hostels, amusement parks, museums and other attractions all over the world.
Stop by a Travel CUTS office or give them a call to learn more about these promotions.
I want a ride in this cake hot air balloon for my birthday. (Skychariot.com)
Looks like this is a big year in travel birthdays, or anniversaries if you think that’s a little classier. (Birthday cake is usually better though, so I’ll stick with that.)
Travel CUTS turns 40 this year, and doesn’t have a single grey hair. They’ve probably managed to stay young and cool through their 50 locations near colleges and universities in Canada and the US.
Do you know what the CUTS stands for? Because they’re not just shouting at you. It’s the Canadian University Travel Services.
Travel CUTS is co-owned by the Canadian Federation of Students and
the Canadian Student Horizons Group. Student ownership means that
the money CUTS earns helps to fund new and innovative student products
and services.
Celebrate the big 4-0 with one of CUTS’ deals on a Contiki tour, rail pass or other student travel discounts.
Hostelling International is doing lots to celebrate their 100th birthday, including a contest to offer you 100 Days Down Under. The winner will get a trip to Australia, including 100 free nights in YHAs across the country.
And yes, Australia has really good birthday cake, too.
Abel Tasman: A place with an official name.
Saw this in the news today:
“Experts searching for alternative Maori names for New Zealand’s two main islands were startled to find that their commonly used English names — North Island and South Island — were never made legal, officials said Tuesday.”
How awesome is that? New Zealand is a completely modern country. They have indoor plumbing, McDonald’s, wi-fi and Oprah. And yet, they just now realized that no one ever quite got around to naming their islands in any official way.
This is the same country that, according to my tour guide at the Beehive (the capitol building in Wellington), used a sawed off pool cue for one of the government’s traditional ceremonies all through the 1920s, just because it was handy, and they hadn’t gotten around to getting an official rod made.
Adorable.
If you’re looking for a low-key, relaxing, no-pressure sort of place to travel over your student holidays, New Zealand is for you. Talk to the equally low-key travel experts at Travel CUTS to get hooked up.
Yes, I got to spend three weeks playing around New Zealand and Australia, and I wish everyone else could go and have as awesome a time as I had.
Buy maybe a trip like that’s not in the cards for you right now. That doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy some ANZAC day festivities in honor of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. In fact, why not host a party at your place? Invite some friends for a staycation and let your minds and spirits head Down Under while your bodies stay where they are.
First, hit up your local Cost Plus for some Tim Tams - Australia’s most popular biscuits (cookies). If you want to look like an Aussie expert, try a Tim Tam Slam: Bite off both ends then suck up your hot chocolate, coffee or tea, using the cookie like a straw.
Next, try your hand at baking some Lamingtons or a Pavlova, two traditional Aussie desserts. Top your Pavlova with Kiwi if you want to include New Zealand as well, and you should. It’s only fair.
If you want a main course as well, go for meat pies, or sausage rolls, or damper and billy tea. Top it off with some Bundaberg rum, or a case of VB if you can find it. If not, find anything flavored with passionfruit.
Load up your iPod or other DJ-ing device with Kylie Minogue, Men at Work, Crowded House, iOTA, Karnivool, Killing Heidi, Midnight Oil, AC/DC, Silverchair, Flight of the Conchords, Howie Day and INXS, and you’ve got an international event on your hands. (Shags in swags optional.)
Travel is a state of mind as much as a hobby. Put your mind in multi-cultural mode and your feet will soon follow. If after the festivities you can’t stand to stay home for another single second and are ready to make a trip to Australia or New Zealand no matter what, then talk to your friendly Travel CUTS agent.
Travel CUTS has excellent student travel deals to both locations, they can get you signed up for and ISIC and a hotel membership, and they can walk you through all the hop-on, hop-off bus routes you might be interested in.
Now, pass me a Vegemite sandwich and a Chocolate Fish.
I finally saw the new Indiana Jones this weekend, and while previews are usually something to have to suffer through, I was excited to see the preview for “Australia”. It’s a big, sweeping period piece, it’s set in one of my favorite places on earth, it’s directed by Baz Luhrmann, and it has Hugh Jackman. That’s a lot of right things to be part of one film.
Check out the trailer to learn more about the movie, and then have a look at the student contest they’re running from now until October. It’s open to high school and college students and there are several different prizes, including a trip for two to Australia on Qantas Airways.
If you can’t wait to win a trip, start planning your own big trip Down Under with student fares from Travel CUTS.
Just because you’ve eaten at the Outback Steakhouse, doesn’t mean you’ve experienced Australian culture. But now you can eat steak off a proper barbie, and you might not have to pay for it.
Travel CUTS and Qantas is running a contest to send you to Australia, and to let you Go Big, because there’s no other way to do the coutry-that’s-also-a-continent. It’s massive! In just one trip you can dive the Reef, hike the Blue Mountains, have a bushtrekking adventure in the Outback, eat Vegemite and Tim Tams (although not together, ugh) and see Australia Zoo before it gets all Disneyfied. Australia is also one of the few places where the American dollar is still worth a little more than the local currency (at least for now), so your sightseeing money will go a little bit further.
The contest ends 10:00 AM (ET) on May 19, 2008 and is open to residents of Canada and America, so call your friends across the border and get them to enter too.
Read full contest details and then start practicing your “G’Day!”
Just because it’s April Fool’s Day doesn’t mean I would be cruel enough to tease you with false travel promises. Some things are sacred, and a Eurail Global Flexipass is one of them.
Enter now for a chance to win one of two trips to Europe for two. That’s two separate chances to win, each for a trip for two people. Too many twos for you? Stick with me here.
The contest is sponsored by Travel CUTS/Voyages Campus and is open to residents of Canada who are “of legal age in their province of residence as of the contest starting date”. Contest ends at 5 p.m. EDT on May 30, 2008, so run on over and give them the usual details (name, email address) and then agree to subscribe to their fantabulous travel e-newsletter, or not.
Along with transportation, you could also win a lifetime membership with Hostelling International, which is a pretty good prize in itself.
Good luck and happy travels!
If you’re planning to tour Europe this summer, take advantage of this offer and save a bundle on your flights. Contiki specializes in tours for adventurers age 30 and under, so you’re sure to meet other students and young people and create memories that will last a lifetime (unless you enjoy yourself a little too much, and then there will probably be photos on your friends’ cameras to remind you of the fun you had).
Simply book any one of the following Contiki European tours with Travel CUTS, and your flights to London are FREE!
| European Explorer – With Mykonos or Greek Island Cruising Options – 35 Days European Adventurer – 17 Countries – 39 Days Ultimate European – 17 Countries – 47 Days 32 Day Camping Tour – 11 Countries 46 Day Camping Tour – 20 Countries |
You must book your Contiki no later than April 11, 2008 and start it by May 15, 2008. so get moving!
This is the newest student travel contest from Student Traveler and Travel CUTS:
Win a $1000 airline ticket from Student Traveler and Travel CUTS! Student Traveler and Travel CUTS have teamed up to give one lucky person a $1,000 airline ticket anywhere in the world. The winner will be announced April 15, 2008.
You can enter here. Good luck!
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