Holidays have become dirt cheap – but only if you book them right |
Holidays have become dirt cheap – but only if you book them right
May 23, 2026 — 5:03am
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Amid all the budget and interest rate outrage, the oil and economic uncertainty, and Delta Goodrem only coming fourth in Eurovision, you may have missed a big (and getting bigger) positive.
It’s been getting cheaper and cheaper to travel.
Sure, you might expect to bag a bargain to anywhere near the war zone right now, but I’m talking many more places than that. What’s more, it’s possible to work the system and the new ways to book to engineer an experience that is way cheaper than it previously would have been.
Here are the three steps I am using.
Step 1: Collect frequent flyer points with your every purchase. Firstly, know that I have just booked my children and I to fly return to Vancouver, Canada, for less than $600 in taxes.
Again. In fact, I haven’t paid for an international ticket in more than a decade. Yet everywhere I look, I see people forgoing the opportunity to earn reward points.
The silver lining of our cash rate going up three times this year is that the Australian dollar has also surged.
You’ll probably know that FlyBuys (Coles) is the shopping scheme hooked to Velocity and Everyday Rewards (Woolworths) is the Qantas companion. And you may look out for boosted points deals across different products and across all the affiliate merchants, too. Qantas collectors can also get points at BP service stations and at Red........