Using tools on the left sidebar, you can filter results by hotel star rating, specific area, price, and certain features (like beach-front or family-friendly). Some packages are marked with a little yellow flag that says “included extras.” Typically, these are benefits included for people with the higher-tier Executive Membership: usually a one-time hotel/resort credit or a Costco gift card. It shows a brief preview of each package including the name of the hotel, general things the package includes (like flight, hotel, and airport transfer), as well as room type and rating. The results page sorts vacation packages by price, based on the cheapest available flights on the days you selected (you can change your flight on the next screen, but that may add to the total price). Image Credit: Costco TravelĪfter picking your destination, you can choose the specific city or region, travel dates, and whether or not you want to include flights if so, select the departure city or airport.įor a sample trip, I searched for packages to Puerto Rico for a week in February 2018, including round-trip flights from New York for 2 adults. The Costco Travel homepage and search screen. You can also select a general “theme parks” search, fully-guided trips, or “Lion World Travel” (an African safari service). The service only offers these vacation packages to a few places, including Florida, the Caribbean, Europe, Hawaii, and Fiji. To start a search, select your destination area from the drop-down menu. The default option is vacation packages, which include the hotel, transportation to and from airports, and flights if you need one. On the home page, you can choose between a few different tabs depending on what you’re searching for. Instead, you can only book them as part of a larger vacation package, which can include hotels, airport transportation, activities, tours, transportation between cities, or more. Unlike many other travel agencies and booking portals, Costco Travel doesn’t let you book flights individually. If you’re a small business owner, check out some of the best business credit cards for rewards when making purchases at Costco Travel. To maximize rewards and travel benefits, use a Visa card like the Chase Sapphire Preferred ® Card. Hot Tip: Costco only accepts Visa cards, although it’s unclear if this extends to Costco Travel.
Gold Star membership costs $60/year and gives you access to stores as well as travel services.To use their travel services, you’ll need to have a Costco membership. They even have their own co-branded cards, the Costco Anywhere Visa ® Card by Citi as well as the Costco Anywhere Visa ® Business Card by Citi.Ī lesser-known service offered by Costco - one you may have noticed advertised in a store - is Costco Travel, an in-house travel agency designed to offer members good deals on vacation packages, hotel rooms, cruises, and more.īy taking advantage of the same bulk-purchasing power that it uses in retail, Costco can secure group rates when putting together vacation packages and bundles.īut can they compete with the bigger names in discounted travel booking, like Priceline? Keep reading to find out.
You need a membership to shop at Costco, but for families, small business owners, and others, the annual price of the membership easily pays for itself after just a few visits. When you hear “Costco,” chances are the first thing that comes to mind is the big-box warehouse, a gigantic market where you can get wholesale prices on groceries, cheap home goods, affordable gifts, clothing and alcohol!
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