The author’s kids on vacation in the Dominican Republic.

Holly Johnson

Costco Travel offers hotel stays, vacation packages, and rental cars, often at highly discounted rates.
However, you have to be a member. So even though I rarely shop there, I paid $120 to sign up.
The cost was more than worth it: I saved over $1,000 on a trip to the Dominican Republic.

With prices for hotels skyrocketing and the cost of plane tickets up as much as 28% when compared to pre-pandemic pricing, comparison shopping for travel is more important now than ever before. High prices or not, there’s no reason to pay more than you have to for a getaway with friends or a family vacation, especially when some basic price shopping can help you find a better deal based on your destination and dates.

Fortunately, I am very much accustomed to shopping for deals whether I am planning to book a trip with cash or paying fully or partially with credit card rewards. Depending on the trip, I usually compare similar options in three or four comparable destinations for several sets of dates that work with our schedule.

That’s exactly what I was doing earlier this year when I was shopping for our summer family vacation for June of 2022. And that’s when I started digging deeply into Costco Travel and all this portal has to offer.

Joining Costco saved me $1,000 on a trip to the Dominican Republic

I was not a Costco member at the time, but my work as a travel writer means I was acquainted with checking the portal for various vacation packages and car rental deals. Once I started looking at all-inclusive resort deals on Costco Travel, however, I was hooked.

Several Costco searches for different destinations and dates yielded results …read more

Source:: Businessinsider