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'Free' travel can be a real gotcha. Here's when to say yes and when to run away. - USA Today
Free travel: if those two words aren't enough to make you do just about anything, then nothing will.
The promise of free travel makes travelers run up enormous credit card bills, book airline tickets to nowhere, and ignore reason and logic. In short, the promise of free travel makes us lose our minds.
Fortunately, spring cleaning season is right around the corner, and maybe this should also apply to doing a financial inventory. It's time for a little straight talk about free travel. Actually, there are three flavors of "free" in travel. There's dangerous, there's benign – and there's truly free. The first two are fairly common; the last is not.
Free travel: if those two words aren't enough to make you do just about anything, then nothing will.
The promise of free travel makes travelers run up enormous credit card bills, book airline tickets to nowhere, and ignore reason and logic. In short, the promise of free travel makes us lose our minds.
Fortunately, spring cleaning season is right around the corner, and maybe this should also apply to doing a financial inventory. It's time for a little straight talk about free travel. Actually, there are three flavors of "free" in travel. There's dangerous, there's benign – and there's truly free. The first two are fairly common; the last is not.