AARP Rewards Travel Contest 2022 - 5/9-5/27/22

I am hoping to take 2 small ones. For the one, I am staying close to home and going to see some sites at Lancaster, PA. I love the area. I am using Hilton points for a free room, and I will probably print out coupons from AARP for cheaper food. Every now and then I get one of the $5 ones too, that I have been saving. I also do the ones where you can pay $10 and get the gc for $7. Gas will probably be discounted from a gas rewards program from a Grocery store. I try hard to save where I can.

Then I hope to visit my daughter in West Virginia this year. I have never visited there before.

We will be traveling to the Outer Banks in NC to see the Wright Brother Memorial and other points of interest in the area. We will use our AARP benefits to reduce some of the costs.

We plan a road trip to visit our son and his family. We always ask for an AARP discount at motels and restaurants. We believe that even if a discount is not currently offered, our request lets the business owner or manager know that AARP is important and they should explore the possibility of offering discounts in the future.

My husband & I are planning a trip OUT WEST with our 2 grandgirls - ages 11 & 14. We hope to visit Utah's Grand Circle of National Parks: Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Arches, Canyonlands & the Grand Canyon. We love driving & sight-seeing with these kids. We all loved our trip to South Dakota before the pandemic. 

I like saving on meals with our AARP discount at Denny's. Kids love pancakes/burgers there! We always use our AARP discount at motels like Holiday Inn Express. Their beds are the best! We keep our speed down to 60 mph, even if the limit is 75 to save on gasoline, as recommended by AARP. 

I will continue reading my daily online newsletters from AARP for more travel tips & discount offers, such as Panera gift cards. 

We are all vaxed & boosted, so after 2 years of staying home, this will be a grand adventure! 

Now that Covid is waning my wife and I are going to take an airplane to Hawaii. Enough of this isolation from humanity. We will use the rewards card to help us with gas for a rental car. Unless of course we get an electric car then will use the rewards card to help pay for the car rental. Aloha everyone!

Going to Virginia to see my sister and neices that I haven't seen since the start of COVID. Will use rewards to save on restaurants. Trying to win sweepstakes that will help with cost of trip.

My husband and I will be traveling to AZ and visiting many small towns/cities while we are there.  The Grand Canyon and staying on the Rim is however the highlight of our trip.  We will take the train from Williams where we will then spend three days walking and touring the Caynon. I first visited as a freshman at ASU in the fall of 1965, so this has MANY wonderful memories for me.  It opened up a whole new look at the world for a 17 year old girl from a small New England city.  I got the bug of travel right then and there. Alhtough I have been back several times to see the Caynon and AZ, I fondly remember the first trip there and the college friends I traveled with.  Fortunately, I am still in touch with several of these wonderful women even after all these years. We will use mileage, free hotels and anyhthng else we can to pay for part of this trip.  We leave the 21st and cannot wait. 

Traveling from Arizona to South Dakota to volunteer as camp host at South Dakota State Park. I will use AARP discounts at restaurants such as Denney’s along the route.

Janet is traveling to Fishkill, NY to visit her 96 year old mother who she has not seen for 3 years.  She will use AAA Rewards for travel expenses.

In anticipation of COVID-19 impacting travel for a while, and that we have multiple ( potentially) disabling health challenges between us,  we bought a 32’ RV to “glamp” our way on the dream road trip. We leave 5/15 for a 6 month, 10K mile trip around the country. Our plans include about 50 national parks , starting at Cape Cod Seashore, up to Acadia, across to IN, SD, WY, WA,OR, CA (LOTS of parks there!) , the SW& back through TX, AR, FL and up the East Coast. Next trip: cruise to the Caribbean late February, then head out in the RV again to see Canada from the maritimes to BC, back Southeast at a leisurely pace & check out NOLA, Cape Hatteras & Myrtle Beach, and finally Assateague Island.

pups, maps, apps galore: look out, USA, we just might be coming to your town !

Well be using AARP discounts to rent cars where the parks are very crowded and to save on gas : RVs can be notoriously bad in the gas mileage department! We’ll also take occasional advantage of hotel/motel discounts . We’re hoping our granddaughters (12 & 14) will join us for part of this adventure: hungry tween & teen eat A LOT!