Fun Freetime: Summer Travel Planning - Hot Tips to Help You Keep Your Cool

Sunny skies, barbeques, sight-seeing, and beach trips. What more can we ask for? The warm weather has finally settled in and it’s time to start planning that long-anticipated summer trip. Maybe this is the year you decide to steer clear of the typical beach trip and decide to go somewhere historical to sightsee. Wherever it may be, this is the perfect time to get your travel planning started.

Travel Expert, Amy Goodman, is in this nterview to help you jumpstart your summer travel planning and share some of her most important tips for taking on travel. 

Some of Amy’s tips will include:

• PLAN TO SAVE: Planning your summer travel ahead of time will result in better accommodations for a great price. No need to stress, it’s summer time!
• ROAD TRIP PREP: If you’re hitting the open road, make sure your vehicle is ready for the trip whether it’s a tire check, enough luggage room or updating your technology to help pass the long drive.
• LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: You want your trip to be a success and that starts with a right-fit destination. Pick a place that suits your travel style whether a solo trip or one with family and friends.
• REWARD YOURSELF: Take the sting out of vacation price tags with travel rewards credit cards. They can help you stretch your budget by helping you earn free hotel stays, airfare, and more! 

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MORE ABOUT AMY GOODMAN:

Amy E. Goodman is a nationally recognized media maven and frequent lifestyle contributor on the airwaves including the Today show, Rachael Ray, Wendy Williams, The Talk, The View, ET! to name but a few. She’s deftly tackled travel reportage, whether celebrity hot spots for In Style magazine and destination weddings and honeymoon reporting for In Style Weddings, to the best of regional and coastal destinations for Southern Living and Coastal Living respectively. She was the host for Washington Flyer TV, where she created monthly installments about regional and worldly travel for a metropolitan D.C. audience and its global visitors. On air, she continues to share everything from the best deals on cruises, to the most desired hotel escapes and even the hottest trends in resort wear, with tips for business and budget travelers and family vacationers alike. In 2013, she received the Savor the Success TV Personality of the Year Award and The Women’s Center Leadership Award in that same year. She is a proud member of the Asian-American Journalists Association and Distinguished Young Women’s Alumnae Council, and a past board member for bothHealthyWomen.org and her local Mom’s Club.