Hotel Bargains

Julie's cousin, Andrea, told us about booklets we could pick up at tourist sites along the way that contained coupons for hotels along our route.   Up to this point, we had been for the most part following the advice in the AAA/BCAA books and using their discounts for hotels and restaurants. 

We used the coupon for the Quality Inn on the first night out of New Jersey and got a much better discount that AAA offered.  We still relied on the AAA books for quality, but if there was a coupon in the flyers we picked up and the hotel was recommended by AAA, we booked it with the coupon.  

The second night we also scored with a reasonably priced Red Roofs Hotel.  It even had a flat screen TV with movies available - We watched Knight and Day with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.  We had all this plus a lot of excitement.  As we were coming back from eating - a salad at the pub next door - several police cars were in the parking lot and surrounding a unit a few doors down from us.  They were looking for a mother who had abducted her child.  She was foreign and could possibly plan to take the child out of the country.  They even knocked at our door to ask if we were harbouring her. 

In all, we used these coupons four times and probably saved about $40.00.  Unfortunately, hotels do not honour them on the weekends.