If you’re looking for trips, there are travel agencies, airlines, railway carriers, cruise ships, coach bus, buggy, and space ships that will literally take you into orbit. But I don’t know if those last trips are of the cheap variety, you’re more than likely to locate some kind of cheap something or other when it comes to the hard game and soft numbers of a trip anywhere worth mentioning.

If your destination is the slopes, there are cheap trips to the mountains. Depending on how close you are to the base camp there are a number of options for your transport out to it. You can take a bus, which is often the cheapest way to go (especially with Gas prices being as they are) Busses are also relatively safe and they run fairly often. If you live really far away you’ve probably got to take a plane, to get to the area. Many resorts will have shuttles that pick up guests during peak season from the airport and will take you straight away to your lodge. Often times, a ski trip will be just before or just after a big life event; wedding, death in the family, job loss; a sympathetic friend or family member will want to take the affected from the depressing state and give them something to take their mind off things. This is often a great excuse for a big road trip as an alternative to taking to the skies; road trips are often rife with adventures all their own and act as a great precursor to the actual ski trip.

If you’re looking for deals on a cheap ski lodge you should consult their website. Many times on the rates page they have asterisks which indicate when rates are more reasonable than others. There is also “contact us” links or phone numbers that can serve as a great entrée into the ski lodge and you can speak with someone either online or give them a call to talk about rates and availability.

If gambling, drinking, smoking, drugs, and other debauchery is more your thing, why not check out cheap Las Vegas trip options. Cheap trips to Las Vegas often include free wine and cheese reception or tickets to the Celine Dion show; I beg of you; if you’re going to get the cheap Las Vegas trip option, stick with the wine and cheese! Please!

If you’re off on spring break a cheap place to go that is very popular with the kids are the cheap trips to Amsterdam. Just remember, what you do in Amsterdam usually isn’t worth remembering anyway.