Want to know how I stayed at fine hotels on a shoestring budget? -- and even got to stay for free?

Introducing: Discount Hotel Rooms Up To 75% Off When You Book With Agoda

This is absolutely true. I am NOT a rich tycoon. Not even close. Whenever I travel I HAVE TO find bargain basement prices or I just can't go? Fortunately, I find always find ways to travel on a shoe string budget.

(Hint: I wear shoes without shoelaces. So what I save from not having to buy shoelaces every few months, I use for travel. Can you believe that? Don't. But it really is close to the truth.)

Whenever I need to book a hotel, especially in Thailand and other Asian countries, I use this page. All you have to do is find the country you're traveling to, and click on it. The next thing you know, you're looking at a search page where you fill in your dates of travel and the city you want to be in. Submit that information, and Agoda finds hotels for you to choose from.

I suppose many people do this real fast. But I spend time looking at the hotels in my budget, reading the reviews, and making sure the hotel is what I'm looking for. Once I've decided, I just "Book It."

If you read the reviews, you'll see that I'm not the only one who gets in way below the walk-in rates. In fact, I've gotten some free hotel stays.

Agoda Rewards is probably the most generous reward system in the travel and hospitality industry. I not only stayed in fantastic hotels for cheap, I got reward points for every hotel stay and those reward points add up pretty fast. At least twice that I remember, I stayed in excellent hotels for free.

Agoda Rewards pops up the first time you book a hotel through Agoda. You get an account, and your account gets updated automatically every time you book through Agoda. Gain enough points and you're good to go for free.

I have personally used Agoda I-don't-know-how-many times, and I have gotten bad hotels only a couple times. (I should have paid better attention to the reviews.) All you have to do to get started is click the mouse on the country you're going to.

Good Luck, and Have a Great Trip!

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