Product Description

Guerrilla Travel Tactics is the most comprehensive book ever written on finding travel bargains. It will help any business traveler survive the rigors of the road, optimize logistics, and get the most for every dollar spent on travel.

The individual business traveler will save thousands of dollars per year, and companies whose executives and employees fly frequently could save hundreds of thousands -- or more. The bottom line is that travelers and organizations will be spending a fraction of what they normally would, but getting much more for their money.

Guerrilla Travel Tactics is packed with travel tips, bargain strategies, and insider secrets, including how to get the VIP treatment, amenities, and upgrades -- all on a penny-pinching budget. Featuring the authors' practical, proven techniques, it's an absolute must-read whether you travel once a week or once a year.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1159346 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

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" This book has given me countless ideas for making my next trip easier and less expensive." -- Jack Covert, 800CEOREAD.com

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Jack Covert, syndicated columnist: "If you travel either for business or for pleasure, I have the perfect book for you. This book has given me countless ideas for making my next trip easier and less expensive."

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"""This book doesn’t merely save or make you money, it turns you into a travel genius.""

-- Jay Abraham, Business Growth Expert

""An indispensable resource for travelers of any kind, especially the money-saving kind. I don't have to just book the latest low-cost airline anymore. With its ten chapters devoted exclusively to saving money when flying, Guerrilla Travel Tactics shows me how to choose whichever airline I want and still get low fares.""— Randy Petersen, Editor and Publisher, InsideFlyer Magazine."

Customer Reviews

This Book Aspires To Be The Bible For Cost Conscious Travel
If there is one lesson I have discovered over my umpteen years of travelling is that you need to be very creative when coordinating your jaunts in order to glean the most advantageous deals.

Regrettably, up to recently, I did not have at my disposal the Internet or travel guides such as Guerrilla Travel Tactics authored by Jay Conrad Levinson and Theo Brandt-Sarif.
This book aspires to be the bible for the cost conscious business or leisure traveler, and it definitely has reached its objectives. Particularly, when you take into consideration that within the pages of one book you have practical replies to the how's, when's, where's, and why's of the travel industry pertaining to travel costs and more.

The authors advocate, "that guerrilla travelers achieve conventional goals using unconventional means," or as I mentioned earlier, creativity.
No matter if it be airline reservations, hotel accommodations, car rentals, frequent flyer points, or anything else related to travel, it is you alone that has to seek out the bargains and not a travel agent, who for the most part does not have your interest at heart.

A good portion of Guerrilla Travel Tactics is allotted to airlines such as: airfare savings, lounge membership, alliances, navigating the Internet to weed out great deals, getting the most out of frequent flyer points, and seating.
Are you cognizant that when it comes to flying, not all air miles are created equal? Some airlines may give fewer miles when flying at discounted rate.
Would you give up a first class seat that you may have been upgraded to for an aisle coach seat next to a vacant seat and how do you go about securing this seat?
These and many more are some of the "treats" that are delivered to the reader.
The remaining sections are devoted to hotels, car rentals, affinity cards, and even how to effectively lodge a complaint.

Of special interest are the informative sidebars of tips and alerts, as well as the appendixes.
Are you mindful that booking a deeply discounted hotel room online many sometimes be non-refundable; be sure to check over the fine print. If you are concerned about your hotel room, it is a good idea to tip the bellman before checking in and inquiring which rooms he would choose for himself, if he were with his spouse.
Here is one tip I found quite interesting- one of the biggest cons around in travel is paying $495 to become a travel agent without IATA certification. Hotels and airlines are not stupid and they will not provide discounted rooms or airfare for these "so-called" travel agents.

A helpful appendix lists the major airlines, hotels chains, car rentals companies, and hotel consolidators, indicating their web sites and telephone numbers. You also have information pertaining to the frequent flyer plans of each U.S. and International airline, as well as the credit card information pertaining to them.

The authors' breezy and enlightening style of writing make this frequently dry topic as appealing as it can ever hope to get, while at the same time imparting some super useful information.

Norm Goldman

Jam-packed with useful tips
Start thumbing through this incredible book and the simple, practical, money-saving ideas just fly off the page. Lower airline fares ... easy upgrades ... the best hotel deals ... car rentals at a fraction of the usual cost ... how to use the Internet as your personal, economical travel agent. This is usable everyday advice you can apply immediately, not off-the-wall stuff you can never use in the real world. I read through it, cover to cover, and highlighted information of particular interest, while I was traveling to Houston on a flight for which I had overpaid to stay in a hotel where I could have almost halved my bill and gotten a better room, with better service, better meals -- well, you get the idea. I missed out on that trip, but I'll never miss out again. Guerrilla Travel Tactics now has a permanent spot in my travel bag.

Easy to follow, immediately beneficial advice!
I just finished reading my copy of "Guerrilla Travel Tactics" and can't stop quoting it to my business colleagues and friends. This week, on a flight from LA to SJC, a seatmate complained of having so many frequent flyer miles and never being able to use them. I quickly opened the book to p. 148 and showed her the tips on using mileage programs. My new friend read about the low risk for booking 330 days in advance with mileage awards, even if you're not sure of your plans. She seemed really excited to have a plan on using her points and was really reluctant to give me my book back!!

The book will help you gain more affordable travel experiences, and show you how to get a luxury level of travel for the lowest possible price! I'd certainly rather stay at the Ritz Carlton than at a Hilton if the price were the same.

Additional ideas include which seats on a plane are most likely to have an empty seat next to them, and when having a coach seat trumps an available business class seat. Or when having access to an airport lounge makes sense and when you could have spent those dollars in a better way.

Each chapter is organized with an initial real-life story, clear objectives and examples, travel tips and alerts and summed up at the end with the top advice on that particular topic. This helps to scan the material for review or when you are focusing on a single area of travel; such as airfare pricing, best seats, hotel pricing, timing your travel for lowest prices, etc.

I now have so many ideas for maximizing the speed of acquiring airline frequent flyer miles and determining which mileage deals are worth it and which are a waste of my time. Dr. Brandt-Sarif's tips will become part of my standard vacation planning repertoire!! I wish I'd known all this stuff years ago.