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Guerrilla Travel Tactics: Hundreds of Simple Strategies Guaranteed to Save Road Warriors Time and Money | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jay Conrad Levinson, Theo Brandt-sarif
Publisher: AMACOM
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 791503
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0814471706
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.202
EAN: 9780814471708
ASIN: 0814471706
Publication Date: June 25, 2004
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Book Description
Guerrilla Travel Tactics is the most comprehensive book ever written on finding travel bargains. It will help any business traveler survive the rigors of the road, optimize logistics, and get the most for every dollar spent on travel. The individual business traveler will save thousands of dollars per year, and companies whose executives and employees fly frequently could save hundreds of thousands -- or more. The bottom line is that travelers and organizations will be spending a fraction of what they normally would, but getting much more for their money. Guerrilla Travel Tactics is packed with travel tips, bargain strategies, and insider secrets, including how to get the VIP treatment, amenities, and upgrades -- all on a penny-pinching budget. Featuring the authors' practical, proven techniques, it's an absolute must-read whether you travel once a week or once a year.
Book Description
"Guerrilla Marketing” master Jay Conrad Levinson has done it again! Guerrilla Travel Tactics is the most comprehensive book ever written on finding travel bargains. It’s absolutely packed with savvy travel tips, bargain-finding strategies, and insider secrets. You’ll discover how to: Get upgraded to First Class, every time—guaranteed. Know the quality of any hotel before you make a reservation. Find the best price on a car rental in five minutes or less. Maximize your frequent flyer miles—and fly free whenever you want. Guerrilla Travel Tactics offers the inside scoop on every aspect of travel -- the kind of tips you learn only by being on a first-name basis with the world's top concierges, getting flight attendants to speak off the record, and logging millions of air miles. This is the information hotels, airlines, and travel agents don't want you to know!"
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 You need this book February 22, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Guerilla Travel Tactics is an amazing book! It is chock full of wonderful tips which are seldom -- if ever -- found in other travel advice books. It is easy to read, clear, and well-organized. And it is very, very useful. The tips in this book can do much to make your trips less expensive, more comfortable and more fun. This book is a thousand times better than other other travel advice book. I have read this book from cover to cover at least 3 or 4 times. If you travel, you need this book. In any case, it's fun to read. A lot of fun, you'll see.
 This Book Aspires To Be The Bible For Cost Conscious Travel December 9, 2004
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
If there is one lesson I have discovered over my umpteen years of travelling is that you need to be very creative when coordinating your jaunts in order to glean the most advantageous deals.
Regrettably, up to recently, I did not have at my disposal the Internet or travel guides such as Guerrilla Travel Tactics authored by Jay Conrad Levinson and Theo Brandt-Sarif.
This book aspires to be the bible for the cost conscious business or leisure traveler, and it definitely has reached its objectives. Particularly, when you take into consideration that within the pages of one book you have practical replies to the how's, when's, where's, and why's of the travel industry pertaining to travel costs and more.
The authors advocate, "that guerrilla travelers achieve conventional goals using unconventional means," or as I mentioned earlier, creativity.
No matter if it be airline reservations, hotel accommodations, car rentals, frequent flyer points, or anything else related to travel, it is you alone that has to seek out the bargains and not a travel agent, who for the most part does not have your interest at heart.
A good portion of Guerrilla Travel Tactics is allotted to airlines such as: airfare savings, lounge membership, alliances, navigating the Internet to weed out great deals, getting the most out of frequent flyer points, and seating.
Are you cognizant that when it comes to flying, not all air miles are created equal? Some airlines may give fewer miles when flying at discounted rate.
Would you give up a first class seat that you may have been upgraded to for an aisle coach seat next to a vacant seat and how do you go about securing this seat?
These and many more are some of the "treats" that are delivered to the reader.
The remaining sections are devoted to hotels, car rentals, affinity cards, and even how to effectively lodge a complaint.
Of special interest are the informative sidebars of tips and alerts, as well as the appendixes.
Are you mindful that booking a deeply discounted hotel room online many sometimes be non-refundable; be sure to check over the fine print. If you are concerned about your hotel room, it is a good idea to tip the bellman before checking in and inquiring which rooms he would choose for himself, if he were with his spouse.
Here is one tip I found quite interesting- one of the biggest cons around in travel is paying $495 to become a travel agent without IATA certification. Hotels and airlines are not stupid and they will not provide discounted rooms or airfare for these "so-called" travel agents.
A helpful appendix lists the major airlines, hotels chains, car rentals companies, and hotel consolidators, indicating their web sites and telephone numbers. You also have information pertaining to the frequent flyer plans of each U.S. and International airline, as well as the credit card information pertaining to them.
The authors' breezy and enlightening style of writing make this frequently dry topic as appealing as it can ever hope to get, while at the same time imparting some super useful information.
Norm Goldman
The first truly valuable book for all travellers November 16, 2004
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
As someone who has been travelling for business for the last 15 years (cost constraints but a low level of tolerance for poor quality or service) and someone who has been travelling more often for fun (5 star taste but on a 2 or 3 star budget), I have found that most "travel tips" books are either too'dumbed down" with obvious tips that make little difference, or are so arcane with regard to specific locales that they are not realistic for me, as to be useless. This is the first book that is comprised entirely of real and useful information for travellers of all types and budgets. Kudos to Theo Brandt-Sarif who did the research and to the publisher that ventured to bring yet another travel book onto the scene. I have used the information in this book on my last few trips and it has really made a difference. Skeptical friends of mine who borrowed this book and used it have since purchased it and recommend it to their friends.
 Nothing New September 11, 2004
16 out of 23 found this review helpful
The title of this book grab my attention...but that is about it. I did not find anything new in this book and much of the information is hype and not relevant to real travel. For example the back cover of the book says that you can upgrade to first class every time. Anyone who was traveled before knows this is not the case. (...)
Good tips July 27, 2004
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
The author has given some great tips on how to save money while traveling, even helpful things that would not have ever crossed my mind. The book is informative and fun to read -- a must for the new world traveler or the seasoned traveler.
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