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

My youngest son is getting married in October in VEGAS!!!! Never been and I am looking forward to getting away!

1. We have wanted to travel to Vermont for our 50th wedding anniversary and will be going this summer. Our anniversary is June 10
2. we will contact AAA to help us plan our trip and we will use all available AARP discounts for hotels and events we will be visiting on our anniversary trip. 

After surviving a long battle with Covid19, I just want to enjoy life and am so grateful to be alive. My children is taking me on a seven day cruise to Puerto Rico, Grand Turke, and Amber Cove  this summer.  I am so excited that I am able to see another part of the world. 

2020 was supposed to be our year for travel. I was turning 50 (and warmly welcomed into the AARP community 😊), and it was my husband and my 25th anniversary. We planned our first cruise--with friends, of course--planned a whitewater rafting trip, and planned a trip to Disneyworld with family. I had left a long-term career for a job more local and then I was fired (which was a first-time thing for me!!) when I entered my vacation time on the calendar, which I had told them about during the interview! I was left reeling but hopeful for another job and looked forward to our year of vacations. Fast forward a few weeks to March 2020 and the world shut down. All vacation plans ended. Job prospects screeched to a halt. We did everything we could to avoid COVID. My husband eventually contracted it just before the vaccine became available and it was rough but he survived and I successfully avoided it. We spent the next 2 years keeping ourselves and others safe by staying home and staying healthy as much as possible.

Now that the pandemic is slowing a bit, we are thinking about travel again, but it will be much different. We will be scouting for our future retirement community, somewhere on the east coast instead of cruising, instead of Disney. We would like to still plan a whitewater rafting trip with family, but other than that, we will continue to keep ourselves and others safe by avoiding crowds when possible and enjoying outdoor, open space venues when we finally attend some concerts at our local Jones Beach amphitheater this summer. By Fall, we hope to travel the east coast to find our future home where we'll live a vacation lifestyle forever.

Maybe one day we'll go on our cruise and maybe someday we'll re-plan a trip to Disney, but it won't be anytime soon. 

The past few years were really rough

and, COVID, I have had enough

I have not been able to travel very far

but now its time to dust off my car.

Central Oklahoma is rife with history

and many an unsolved mystery

I will use my AARP Discounts to see

many of the museums of what used to be

and enjoy the discounted dinner.

AARP makes me a winner!!

We are taking a roadtrip to the Grand Canyon and Sedona this summer.  We plan to use the AARP discount on Hilton hotels 

We have never been able to travel much due to work and health. It's been 20 years since we went to the beach. I hope that my husband of 40 years and I can go see the ocean one more time. AARP will help me save on hotel and rental car. Thanks AARP!

  We are so excited for our trip to Italy this September! We have been waiting three years to make this happen due to COVID restrictions, and it is so reassuring  to finally see an end in sight.

    AARP is overlooked, I feel, where travel benefits are concerned. They are a  great resource even if you aren't retired! We used the discounts via AARP partner, Expedia, to get 15% off our hotel at the airport the night before we leave, as well as 15% off a nearby restaurant. We found AARP travel center, and Senior "Gettours.com" very helpful in locating affordable tours in Rome. 

As a side note: imagine my surprise when at Regal Cinema, we received 40% off on our ticket!

I loved it, and we love AARP.

Arrivederci!

Lori and Ron

I would like to do a trip to Phoenix or Boise this year.  It is good for the soul to spend time with family.  It would be fun to see how many restaurants we can use our AARP card to help save money.

We just traveled on my dream Reid to the Netherlands and Belgium on a river cruise. I use AARP Rewards to look for discounts on hotels, dining and rental cards when I travel. Out next trip will be to a wedding in Boston, then in the fall my son’s Wes sing in Texas. AARP rewards comes in handy to look for these travel discounts especially with US travel