Hot Deals (hotels from all over)

Turks & Caicos low as $169

Turks & Caicos’ The Sands at Grace Bay luxury resort is offering a 4th Night Free summer travel offer plus four ways that travelers can have fun in Providenciales for free with the resort’s added-value offerings. Discounted rates can be as low as $169 per night (including hotel taxes/service charges) for booking four nights in a Studio Courtyard accommodation. Plus – the resort offers guests free bicycles for island exploration, free use of watersports equipment and snorkeling gear, a weekly poolside cocktail party, free rum punch welcome cocktails and more. The offer is good now through Dec. 22.

Central Holidays offers air-inclusive deals up to 40% off

Central Holidays is offering a new series of "Friends and Family" travel specials that offer up to 40% off for small groups of 15 or more travelers to Europe. Each "Friends and Family" package includes round-trip international air from NYC; stays at a selection of hotels in some of the most popular cities of Italy; buffet breakfast daily; round trip airport transfers by private motor coach; Central Holidays local representative’s assistance; guided tours per; hotel porterage; as well as all taxes and fees. Examples include a 9-day, 7-night Florence and Rome trip for $1729 for groups of minimum 15 passengers traveling together or $1,539 for groups of 20. The deals are for travel between Nov. 1 and March 31 of next year. Founded in 1972, Central Holidays offers superior travel programs, value and service to destinations throughout Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, plus dozens of Mediterranean and European River Cruise itineraries and worldwide Ski programs.

  Virgin Islands discounted hotels

The U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism is offering travelers a savings of $350 on a summer getaway with its "Sizzlin’ Sampler" package.  The offer includes a $200 instant credit towards any booking for a minimum five-night stay at participating hotels, along with $50 in shopping certificates, $50 in attractions certificates, $50 in dining certificates and  the fifth night free.  The promotion can be booked now through June 15 for travel between June 1 and September 30.  Participating hotels include: Anchorage, Best Western Carib Beach, Best Western Emerald Beach, Bolongo Bay Beach Resort, Crystal Cove, Marriott Frenchman’s Reef, McLaughlin Anderson Luxury Villas, Pavilions and Pools, Point Pleasant, The Ritz Carlton, St. Thomas, Sapphire Beach Resort, Sapphire Village, Sugar Bay Resort & Spa, Virgin Islands Campground (Water Island), Windward Passage, The Buccaneer, Chenay Bay, Club Comanche Hotel, Club St. Croix, Colony Cove, Divi Carina Bay All-Inclusive Resort & Casino, Hibiscus Beach Resort, Holger Danske Hotel, Hotel Caravelle, The Palms at Pelican Cove, Renaissance Carambola Beach Resort & Spa, Sand Castle on the Beach, Sugar Beach Condo Resort, Tamarind Reef Resort, Gallows Point Resort, Maho Bay Camps and The Westin, St. John Resort & Villas. The Sizzlin’ Sampler applies to new bookings only.  Reservations for this promotion can be made through a number of tour operators using the booking code VISS12, including: Apple Vacations, BookIt.com, CheapCaribbean.com (Inter Island Tours), Classic Vacations, Costco Travel, Enjoy Vacations, Expedia, Funjet Vacations, Hotelbeds, JetBlue Getaways, Libgo Travel, MLT Vacations, Pleasant Holidays, LLC, Travel Impressions, Travelocity, US Airways Vacations, Vacation Express and World Travel Holdings.

IHG offers $75 prepaid cards

IHG is offering up travelers up to $300 back in its "Vacation Pay" promotion. Between May 14th and September 3rd, any traveler staying two consecutive weekend nights (Friday, Saturday or Sunday) at any of IHG’s 4,400 hotels, will receive a $75 prepaid card to spend however they’d like.  IHG hotels include InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites. 

By David Wilkening