There has never been a better time to visit U.S. cities for international travelers. With the low dollar, it’s a great time to take advantage of affordable travel to the United States. These best value travel destinations in the U.S. are easy to reach from international airports because of the abundance of direct flights, which makes getting there less expensive and time-consuming. On top of that, these best value travel destinations have the widest range of accommodation options, affordable entertainment choices, package vacations, and great discounts for travelers on airfare, flights, hotels, and car rentals. These are Tripbase’s best value travel destinations in the U.S. for international tourists that live up to their iconic statuses as incredible, “must-see” urban landscapes. Best of all, they offer a great range of entertainment, nightlife, shopping, dining, urban parks, attractions and a plethora of choice when it comes to lodging.

Best Value Travel Destinations 2008 for International Travelers:

1. Los Angeles travel recommendations
With everything from white, sandy beaches where volleyball nets abound to urban spaces like the Griffith Park that overlooks the entire city and the Hollywood Walk of Fame to free art museums, Los Angeles has plenty of affordable entertainment, a wide range of accommodations, and plenty of flights to choose from.

2. Las Vegas travel recommendations
All-inclusive packages in Sin City offer excellent deals on upscale resorts to entice gamblers, but you can also enjoy a wide range of street entertainment along ‘the strip’ without ever spending a dime.

3. Chicago travel recommendations
With music festivals, parks, museums and even beaches, Chicago offers visitors a wealth of inexpensive entertainment options as well as plenty of accommodation choices.

4. New York travel recommendations
Central Park, cathedrals, ferries and plenty of museums as well as a huge number of accommodations and inexpensive, ethnic dining make New York a great choice for value.

5. Miami travel recommendations
Sizzling with beautiful people on stunning beaches by day and in top-notch nightclubs by night, Miami is jam-packed with entertainment options, restaurants, and accommodations. Enjoy historic art-deco buildings and monuments as well as gorgeous beach parks.

Happy Travels,
The Tripbase Team

In our upcoming blogs, we’ll be sharing with you Tripbase’s top Best Value Travel to International Destinations.

Top Best Value U.S. Destinations for 2008
i.e., where to get the best bang for your buck in u.s. tourism destinations

We’ve gotten a huge number of questions from Tripbase users lately about how to find the best value destinations. And getting more for your money appeals to just about everyone—especially when it comes to travel. Nobody wants to pay more for their next vacation when they can get everything they want for less.
In order to find the best value destinations in the United States, we looked at many parameters in thousands of locations, including accommodation options, affordable entertainment choices, what kind of discounts are offered to travelers, the number of free venues, flight discounts, package tours available and the average costs to travel (per day averages include hotel costs) in these destinations—to name just a few. Of the best value destinations, we focused on the tourism destinations that got the highest scores for overall quality versus costs to travel there.
To make the results even more useful, we decided to break down the top best value destinations for 2008 into two separate blogs 1. Best Value U.S. Destinations for Americans 2. Best Value U.S. Destinations for International Travelers
These categories were separated based on overall configurations as well as the range and cost of international and domestic flights.

Best Value U.S. Destinations 2008:
Travel within the United States right now has added value for Americans because of the low dollar, and staying closer to home means lower transportation costs and being more environmentally friendly. These five cities scored in the top ranks for overall travel value. They’re all places that really live up to the cliché ‘something for everyone.’ No matter what you’re looking for—from urban parks, top-notch museums and funky festivals or uber-chic bars, exquisite dining, great attractions and shopping galore, you’ll find it in these cities.

1. Orlando travel recommendations
It’s hard to beat Orlando when it comes to affordable entertainment—from the range of all-inclusive packages to world-class theme parks and beach outings as well as free concerts, inexpensive tours and high-quality activities.

2. Phoenix travel recommendations
From outdoor adventures in stunning natural landscapes to gorgeous golf vacations, Phoenix has great deals on top-notch accommodations and weather that’s close to perfect all year round—not to mention the art, history and culture.

3. Denver travel recommendations
Take advantage of free tours at the Coors Brewery and the U.S. Mint or go for a hike along stunning trails that wind along the Cherry Creek River without paying a dime.

4. Portland travel recommendations
Enjoy a picnic in Laurelhurst Park or tour the Bridgeport Brewing Company, enjoy a hike among the wildlife at the Portland Wildlife Center and enjoy river activities—all for free.

5. Washington, D.C. travel recommendations
With its plethora of free museums and walking tours, sprawling urban parks, historical monuments, great transportation and wealth of accommodation and restaurant options, it’s no surprise that Washington, D.C. is one of the best value destinations.

Happy Travels,
The Tripbase Team

Welcome to the Tripbase.com blog,

We’d like to thank all of our dedicated users for all the fantastic feedback we have received since our launch.  We are hard at work making improvements and changes to make sure this product gives you the user what you really want.

In the meantime, our computers have been crunching and processing the plethora of travel information available from travel industry databases, travel websites, and travel blogs, and we wanted to share with you some of our exciting findings here in our blog.  All of these findings and much more will be integrated into Tripbase.com in the near future, but we wanted to give our dedicated users a sneak peak at some of the more interesting results.

We’re going to tell you about destinations you’ve never heard about, and we’ll share with you some exciting things about destinations that you have heard about… we’re also going to share some industry information, including a few things that I’m sure nobody wants you to know.

Tripbase.com is still in alpha because we really want to publicly launch only once we are satisfied that the product it truly excellent, so please give us feedback… the more the better.   We know that we’re missing some stuff and we’ll be publishing information about places that are not yet up on the live site… but we just couldn’t keep all the good secrets to ourselves.  We feel the need to share what we’ve got.

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Reuven Levitt
CEO / Co-founder
Tripbase.com