Contrary to the common belief that the Mecca of shopping Costco only provided you with amazing pizzas, choicest alcoholic beverages and gas stations at convenient localities, very few are aware that their favorite wholesaler also offers yet another membership prerequisite - Costco Travel.
Costco Travel not only provides members to rent cars, purchase vacation packages, book cruises and help in booking tickets for theme parks but offers these at prices that suit your wallet. In fact, Costco Travel is incorporated in the $55 membership. Once you go through the site thoroughly, you will realize that you can get much more from your membership with only one booking, according to Finance Yahoo.
Incidentally, Costco apparently applies the same technique it employs in its retail business to travel planning also - it takes bulk orders, which is known as group rates in the travel industry. There are occasions when Costco offers group rates for members who actually wouldn't be eligible for the rates in case they made the bookings on their own.
Costco offers deals like Costco cash cards, which can be used by the members use on board the ship. In case the cruise line is also offering a shipboard credit for passengers, Costco Travel members can merge the two for additional cash to spend on board.
Costco Travel offers its customers the facility to book cruises with prominent companies like Disney Cruise Line, Viking River Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and more. In fact, an 8-day Kirkland Signature Wine Cruise offered by the company around Burgundy and Provence aboard a Uniworld River Cruise is especially exciting.
The packages offered by Costco to its members are extremely affordable. A vacation package from New York to Jamaica, including a six-night all-inclusive stay at the Iberostar Grand Hotel, with Delta airfare, and ground transportation, costs just $3,738 for two people. In addition, the package offers a $500 resort credit, which members can use at the spa, hotel shop or restaurants, Huffington Post reported.
On the other hand, if you book the same trip through Orbitz, it will cost much more, anything between $4,125. Moreover, the Orbitz trip doesn't include ground transportation or offer the $500 resort credit.
Aside from tour packages, Costco allows its members to book rental cars using the travel tool with minimal work. Once you submit your rental parameters, the site will compare rates from Alamo, Avis, Budget and Enterprise. The company will use a low price finder to search the Web for all valid coupons, codes and discounts to ensure that the members get the best deal possible.
