Travel Gifts

  Sooo, not to toot my own horn, but I just got some stellar (well, I like them) new "freebies" in the mail! I don't know 'bout you, but I'm gonna be swag, with a capital "S" toting these around. I got a free travel luggage tag for writing a review on TripAdvisor about a less than pleasant hotel stay. Usually luggage tags of this size are pretty pricey, which I don't want to pay. I used to have an amazingly awesome Hard Rock Cafe luggage tag that was rubber like this one and crazy big, but sadly, it must have been so amazingly awesome that the baggage handlers on my cruise wanted it too. Now, I normally just stick with using the airline paper tags and putting a tag on both the inside and outside of my bags, but now I have this great Free tag. Woo Hoo.

Savings: approx. $7 (free)

  What's the other stellar gift I got, you ask? Well, my friends, it is this Free gift from STA travel, just for filling out my Eurail train pass with each train trip we took. We had to fill it out anyway, to be "train-cred" and all & when I got home, I just folded, taped, and sent. Yep, the lovely STA people even paid for postage. STA uses this form as a survey to help keep Eurail being cheap and sweet, and as a "thanks" they send the pass back for "keepsake memories" along with a gift. I must say: I'm liking the gift. It will come in super handy when I backpack again!

Savings: Free