The Sydney Traveler

Here’s another discount accommodation website to add to your favourites list. If someone has cancelled their accommodation at the last minute, chances are you’ll find it on cancellations.com.au. Of course, the owners are desperate to fill the rooms, you reap the rewards!
If you’d rather book your accommodation in advance, that’s alright too. Cancellations.com.au also offers discounts of more than 60% from the rack rate for rooms booked up to a year in advance.
Cancellations.com.au offers accommodation for all tastes and budgets, including bed and breakfasts, houseboats, chartered yachts, caravan parks, and five-star hotels.
The site is updated daily, so make sure you …read more

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Want to save cash while you’re getting around Sydney? Of course you do! Europcar makes it easy with some fantastic Green Light specials.
Until September you can take advantage of a range of deals, starting with small car hire from just $29 a day! You can also drive a compact four-wheel drive from $49 a day, or if you’ve got a crowd how about a people mover from $59?
Getting about the city can be tricky, but it’s a lot easier with a GPS system. Europcar is also offering customers 30% of the hire of a GPS system when they rent any …read more

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Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi! Yes the Beijing Olympics are just around the corner, and we’re all keen to get behind our local heroes and grab some gold!
And you’ll love those medals even more if you’re staying at the Mercure Sydney. The hotel will take $10 off the room rate for every gold Australia wins! Considering how good our Aussie athletes are, it looks like some travellers are going to get some bargains!
The discount applies for every event in which we win gold, but each team gold only counts as one medal (and quite rightly so!). The deal applies …read more

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Fancy a Sydney getaway this winter? If you’ve been toying with the idea, you might like to act on it this weekend. Why this weekend? Well that just happens to be when Crowne Plaza launch their massive three-day sale.
From Saturday 31 May to midnight on Monday 2 June rooms in luxurious Crowne Plaza rooms in NSW and the ACT start from just $99. This offer includes accommodation at the gorgeous Crowne Plaza Darling Harbour and Crowne Plaza Coogee Beach.
Point your browser to the Crowne Plaza website to take advantage of the savings!
Image source: Intercontinental Hotels Group Digital Library

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Is it just me, or does no one pay the rack room rate for a hotel stay anymore? With all those discount sites around, I admit it’s been a really long time since I’ve paid full price.
I’ve found another couple of discount websites that may just give the big boys at Wotif and Last Minute a run for their money. Firstly there’s Rates to Go, a great site that offers significant discounts at luxury digs like the Mercure, Radisson, and Star City. Often the accommodation comes complete with enticing extras like room upgrades, breakfast, and bubbly on arrival.
That sort of …read more

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