Arthur Frommer is known worldwide as the grandfather of travel guidebooks for the budget-conscious, and these days, doesn’t that description apply to most of us? Since the 1950’s. Frommer’s guidebooks have been the go-to resource for smart travelers, starting with his now legendary, Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, published in 1957.

Frommer’s New Year’s resolutions for 2008 include the following economical, environmentally correct, or just plain logical commitments:

• Limit myself to carry-ons, and never check a single bag.
• Carry sandwiches from home, and never bite into a single airline snack.
• Use public transportation from airport into town.
• Never book a connecting flight. If there’s no non-stop to my destination, I won’t go there (with some exceptions).
• Share courses with my wife, ordering a single main plate for the two of us.
• Stop patronizing “duty-free” shops.
• Never book an uncomfortable “boutique hotel” designed by a famous fashionista.
• Never use a credit card that doesn’t earn frequent flyer mileage.
• Never board a cruise ship carrying more than 700 passengers, and
• Remain calm and unperturbed by refusing to read the travel section of the New York Times.

This is all such good advice, I only wish Frommer had added a couple more equally worthwhile resolutions:

• Never book a hotel room when I can stay for less in a timeshare rental.
• Never stay in timeshare rentals leased from the timeshare resort or management company when I can rent timeshare directly from the timeshare owner at a much better rate.
• Stop spending money on hotel rooms when it makes so much more sense to buy timeshare, and
• Buy timeshare resales from the individual owner, not the timeshare development company.

It’s a brand new year and I can’t think of a better time to say, “Hey, I am tired of spending more money than I have to for great vacations and travel.” Think timeshare. There is a reason that “share” is part of the word; timeshare resales and timeshare rentals truly let you share the cost of vacation accommodations with others, and yet still enjoy the luxury and privacy of a beautiful resort vacation or holiday.

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