40 Best bargain vacations
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, September, 2003
Except in areas of the fall foliage, the autumn is generally an off-season period both within the U.S. and to nearly every other location. To Europe and Asia in the fall, tourism slows; to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Latin America in the fall tourism slumps; to Florida and California, to the national parks and the major tourist cities, to the theme parks and beach resorts, the mountain hotels and dude ranches, travel comes off the summer rush. And how do airlines, tour operators, lodgings, and government tour offices respond to that pattern? In September, October, and November, they offer sharp reductions for packages of air and land arrangements.
In the five pages ahead, Budget Travel presents what we regard as the best-priced of those offers. And every package we choose, with minor exceptions, is one that involves no group movements, no regimentation, no restrictions on your ability to ...