Travel Tuesday: What to Know Before Booking Cheap Hotels, Flights and Cruises

• The deal: Take 30% or more off hotel stays via Hotels.com when you travel before December 15, 2025.
• Book by: December 4

Hard Rock

• The deal: All-Inclusive Resorts: Take up to 50% off at all-inclusive properties such as Hard Rock Hotel Cancun and Hard Rock Hotel Punta Cana. Hotels: Take 20%-30% off all hotels room rates.
• Book by: December 6, for stays from December 15 – August 31, 2025

• The deal: Get 20% off select hotels across the United States and Canada. In addition, the Hilton Los Cabos Resort lets you save up to 40% off.
• Book by: January 5, 2025 for Hilton hotel stays through April 30, 2025; December 6 for Hilton Los Cabos Resort stays through October 13, 2025
• What our testers loved: Los Cabos, as a destination, won a Family Travel Award for its access to charming towns off resort property, like San Jose del Cabo, which has cute shops with crafts from local artisans.

Hyatt Hotels

• The deal: Take 20% off at participating hotels and resorts with code “SAVENOW.”
• Book by: December 9, for stays through April 30, 2025

InterContinental Hotels Group

• The deal: Massive hotel chain IHG is offering 25% off for rewards members and 17% off for everyone else.
• Book by: December 3, for stays through April 30, 2025
• What our testers loved: We’re big fans of the Kimpton Santo, a centrally-located hotel in San Antonio, one of our award-winning destinations families. “There is a wide variety of activities for all tastes and ages,” said our tester.

Marriott Bonvoy

• The deal: Marriott Bonvoy is offering its largest discount ever: Members can save 25% off weekend stays at participating hotels when booked through the app. Or, book online and save 20%.
• Book by: December 3, for stays from December 1 – January 20, 2025
• What our testers loved: This deal applies to several Family Travel Award-winning and tester-favorite properties, including:

Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii

• The deal: Get 30% off 2+ night stays at all Omni properties.
• Book by: December 4, for stays through May 26, 2025
• What our testers loved: Two Omni properties won Family Travel Awards this year, both in our Mountain Getaways category — the Omni Homestead, known as “America’s oldest resort,” in Hot Springs, VA and the Omni Barton Creek in Austin, TX. Testers enjoyed the child-friendly feel and Southern charm.

Omni Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, Virginia

Priceline

• The deal: Take 20% off select hotels, as much as 20% off rental cars, and more. Just look out for the sale icon when searching for your booking. Browse all deals here.
  • Cyber Monday flash deal: Get $100 off a booking of $500 or more with stackable promo code “XTRA10.”
  • Travel Tuesday flash deal: Save 30% when you bundle your flight and hotel booking.

Resort Pass

• The deal: Get $50 off bookings of $200+ using code “BFCM2024.”
• Book by: December 3
• What our testers loved: Resort Pass is a day-guest booking service that won a Family Travel Award for its peak staycation potential. “We spent $80 for two adults and two kids to get a day pass to the resort pool with slides and a lazy river about an hour from our house,” one mom said. Beyond daycations, our testers noted that the service would come in handy when staying with relatives — prime for a family fun day this winter break!

• The deal: Take an average of 10% off stays of 7+ nights and an average of 20% of stays of 28+ nights. Discount will vary slightly based on location. Select the “weekly discount” or “monthly discount” filters on Vrbo to search for these savings.
• Book by: December 3

• The deal: Take up to 65% off bookings, plus, get up to $1,000 of resort credit + $500 of flight credit on stays of seven nights or longer.
• Book by: December 3, for stays through December 3, 2025

• The deal: At at any Wyndham property worldwide, members can get 30% off stays of two nights or more, and non-members can save 20% off two-night stays.
• Book by: November 28 – December 6, for trips through March 31, 2025

Ava Resort Cancun, Mexico

• The deal: Score $440 round-trip flights to select European destinations, including Dublin, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Barcelona and more.
• Book by: December 4, for travel from January 7 – April 9, 2025

• The deals:
• Book by: December 3

• The deal: Low-cost airline Breeze just got even cheaper for Cyber Monday: use code “EPIC” for up to 60% off base fares.
• Book by: December 2, through September 2, 2025

• The deal: Delta is offering special prices on select domestic and international itineraries. (Take note: Last year, Delta’s only offer was on Premium Cabin seating.)
• Book by: December 4, for travel from January 7 – February 28, 2025, or March 18, 2025 for Europe

Hawaiian Airlines

• The deal: If you’ve been dreaming of a tropical escape to Hawaii, you can book for as little as $99 one-way from San Diego or $229 one-way from New York (see full list of fares here).
• Book by: December 3

Jet Blue

• The deal: During the Cyber Fundays sale, select domestic travel starts at $49. See full list of fares here.
• Book by: December 4, for travel from December 9 – April 8, 2025

PLAY

• The deal: Take 30% off flights to Iceland, Copenhagen, Paris, London, Amsterdam and Berlin.
• Book by: November 27 – December 3, for travel between December – May 2025 and September – October 2025 (in other words, summer bookings are excluded)

• The deal: Take up to 30% off base fares with code “CYBERSALE.”
• Book by: December 5, for travel from January 7 – March 5, 2025 (domestic) or May 22, 2025 (international).

• The deal: United members get exclusive access to special milage pricing for 25 destinations.
• Book by: December 6

Celebrity Cruises

• The deal: During Celebrity Cruises’ Cyber Monday sale, take 75% off your second guest’s fare, plus up to $800 off per stateroom (this will come in handy if you’re traveling with a group and booking multiple staterooms!).
• Book by: December 2, for sailings through May 10, 2027

Holland America

• The deal: Take up to 25% off cruise fares, plus, book with a $25 deposit, get prepaid gratuity and get free fares for your third and fourth guests on 800+ select itineraries.
• Book by: December 5
  

Norwegian Cruise Line

• The deal: Take up to 50% off select cruises. See list of itineraries here. Plus, get $500 in on-board credit for $250 at time of booking.
• Book by: December 2

• The deal: Save up to 40% off all MSC cruise fares, inclusive of Wi-Fi and a basic drinks package, plus get up to $500 in onboard credit. The best part about this deal: it applies to cruise sailings through 2026.
• Book by: December 2
• What our testers loved: The MSC Seascape ship is our favorite in MSC’s fleet for a family vacation, winning a Family Travel Award for its expanded kid and teen offerings.

Princess Cruises

• The deal: Take up to 50% off cruise fares on select itineraries, plus 50% off deposits and up to $500 of onboard credit.
• Book by: December 2
• What our testers loved: “All the staterooms on the Sun Princess feel more luxe than those on older Princess ships,” said our tester, who celebrated her daughter’s graduation with a sailing from Athens to Barcelona.

• The deal: Book select cruises for $99 per person, per night.
• Book by: December 3, for sailings through November 2026

Heath Owens is a Senior Commerce Editor at Hearst Magazines. He has contributed commerce content to Hearst’s portfolio for the past four years; first, as a writer, now, as editor for the Lifestyle vertical, which includes Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, House Beautiful, Country Living, Prevention, and more. He specializes in product testing (having started his magazine career as an intern at the Good Housekeeping Institute) and sales and deals coverage, with the ultimate goal of helping readers shop smarter. When he’s not at his desk or running around New York City to preview the latest product launches, he’s probably catching up on the Real Housewives of Everywhere™ and tending to his plant children, or, as of late, training for a marathon.

Karen is a seasoned journalist who specializes in travel, book, lifestyle and food coverage. Cicero has visited almost every state with her family (look out Wyoming, she’s coming for you next!). She has spoken at several travel industry conferences, including PRSA and the Mid-Atlantic Tourism Alliance and was previously the senior editor at Parents. A mom who goes overboard for all the holidays, Cicero lives in the Christmas city itself: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.