More Sizzling Summer Travel Deals

by Michele Cheplic | More from this Blogger

18 Jun 2007 08:39 AM

Haven't secured your summer travel plans yet? Your procrastinating may have just paid off this time. Several major airlines and some hot hotel properties are currently offering rock-bottom travel deals.

Delta Airlines is offering a fare sale they are calling "historic." Check out some of the prices for roundtrip travel and judge for yourself:

Atlanta to New York City from $193

Atlanta to Charleston, South Carolina from $112

Atlanta to Cleveland from $153

Atlanta to Denver from $274

Atlanta to Houston from $193

Atlanta to Memphis from $112

Expedia is offering major summer savings at various hotels in "Sin City." Take a look:

MGM Grand Hotel $99 a night

Luxor Hotel $79 a night

Four Queens $36 a night

Sahara $40 a night

Tropicana $47 a night

If your ideal summer vacation doesn't include frying your body parts in Las Vegas as you stroll from casino to casino, consider jumping the pond and heading over to London.

Here are some sample fares (roundtrip) from Expedia:

New York to London from $625

Washington, D.C. to London from $675

Boston to London from $685

Meanwhile, United is offering great deals on flights to Mexico.

Chicago to Mexico City for $370

Los Angeles to Mexico City for $210

If you are looking to spend part of your summer vacation relaxing in paradise a.k.a. Hawaii--United is also offering a summer special from San Francisco to Maui (non-stop, roundtrip) from $925.

Speaking of Hawaii... The Hilton Hawaiian Village" Beach Resort & Spa on the island of Oahu is offering a special summer deal and bringing new meaning to the phrase "power meals."

During the month of June any guest who enjoys five, full-priced adult entrées at any of the Village's four restaurants -- Bali by the Sea, Golden Dragon, Village Steak & Seafood and Rainbow Lanai -- will receive an exclusive penguin plush toy. (Supposedly a lost twin of "Mana," the youngest of eight African Blackfoot penguins who call the property home.) "Mana" in Hawaiian means "powerful."

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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