As regular visitors would know, I’m going to Atlantic City in May with the boyfriend for a fun-filled weekend get-away at the beautiful Harrah’s Hotel & Casino. Meeting us there will be his mother and aunt. I got lucky with my hotel reservations because I’m a Total Rewards member and my entire weekend is paid for thanks to the points on my membership card. We’re going up on Saturday and coming home on Monday and it’s VERY rare to get a FREE ROOM on a weekend, so I’m anticipating heaps of free fun before I even hit the slots.

His mother and aunt weren’t so lucky though, they had to search through websites for hotel discounts because booking directly through Harrah’s was going to cost around $400 a night. They’re only going for an over-night but $400 is still very steep for a hotel room. The issue is really that the booking is based on a weekend and considering it’s getting warmer and everyone is wanting to take trips down to the Jersey Shore, it’s obviously going to cost more money to stay overnight during a weekend than it would during the week. If they decided to make the reservation on a Tuesday, the room would be around $90. Absurd…no?

A good resource for vacation go-ers is hotel reservations .com because they offer quite a bit of information from hotels, motels, resorts and even vacation rentals. They’ve got excellent competitive rates and pricing. They also offer discounts on destinations WORLD WIDE. No matter what kind of commercials you see on television, only a handful search world-wide, so you’re really getting a deal here. Doing a quick search for rooms (located IN the casino) I found that their pricing was pretty darn good. A two night stay at Trump Marina is only about $300, which is a lot better than the ONE night stay that cost $400. That’s about $150 a night, something you can’t really complain about…It’s safe to say I’m keeping this site bookmarked for my next vacation.