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

I'm ready for a driving adventure along the Pacific Coast highway, from San Diego north to the top of Highway 1 - and AARP will help with hotel selection (and cost discounts) along with helping find sights and events along the way.

I'm 43 and my co-workers who are in their late 50's couldn't believe I joined AARP at my age. I was able to change their minds when they learned how much money I saved by using my AARP travel benefits on Expedia for my family's upcoming flight to Anchorage, Alaska and the money I saved on our hotel rooms. I can't wait to take my family to see the wonders of Alaska's Glaciers and ice fields.  

My first post-Covid trip will be the ACBL National Bridge Tournament to be held in Providence, RI.  Competition with experts or mere "famous persons" is a wonderful challenge and adventure.  There is also the local viewing of Newport Beach mansions and Roger Williams' First Baptist Church in America.

I am hoping on going up to New England for thre beautiful fall colors and some Lobster.

We will finally be taking our Greek Islands cruise which we have postponed twice.

We are so happy to be able to travel to Virginia for our Granddaughters high school graduation! We’ll be using our AARP discounts wherever we can! Thank you!

We will be taking an Alaskan cruise this August 

Checking off a bucket list trip!!! A 7 day river trip down the Grand Canyon:)

I'm hoping to take a road trip w/ my dog sometime this summer/fall.  We'll be traveling from FL to WI to visit friends & family and plan to take our time doing so!  I'm not quite sure what route we'll take yet, but I do plan to use the AARP Travel Site to find hotels & fun places to stop along the way.  We'll also use our AARP membership card for discounts on gas & food.  We may even purchase a few gift cards w/ our AARP reward points to give as gifts to family members that we haven't seen in a while!  Sure is sounding like a fun trip, isn't it???  🙂

After being canceled due to COVID the last two years, my husband and I will finally get to visit Amsterdam and then board a river cruise up the Rhine to Basel, Switzerland. We are capping off the trip with a couple of nights in Luzern before we fly home. We have never been to this part of the world and are so excited. I suspect the buildup of hoping to go the prior two summers has also fueled our eagerness to get back to Europe.

I don't think there are a lot of AARP discounts available in Europe, but we regularly use gift cards I buy at a discount through AARP to save money. So, we were able to make this trip more affordable in our budget with our savings from those gift cards (meaning we don't need to draw as much from retirement accounts to pay for everything).