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I'm currently living on the Mediterranean Coast in Tarsus, Turkey. I'm a high school English teacher at a private international school.

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Luxury...coupons?

I love travel. Part of that is treating myself to nice restaurants and spa days. This is hard to do on a teacher's salary!

I've always had my little bag of cheap travel tricks, like:

  • knowing when to splurge for a nice hotel and when to sleep on the airport bench (check the website Sleeping in Airports for tips and reviews)
  • booking trips way ahead of time to get dirt cheap budget flights (like Easyjet Airlines)
  • Splurging on a nice lunch (when the prices are cheap and I have time to walk off the calories) and eating a smaller, cheaper grocery store dinner.
Now I have a new handy trick - coupons! I hope you've already found out about this if you live in a major city.

For Canadian cities: TeamBuy
For North American cities: Groupon
For London: Keynoir

Most coupons are good for 6 or 12 months after you buy them. I started looking for NYC coupons a few weeks before I left and got some great 1/2 priced meals! In Halifax, we got food and fun (sock monkey puppets kits!). Now, I'll keep an eye on Keynoir and be ready for some 1/2 price luxury on my next trip to London.

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