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About BookingBuddy: When making travel plans for your next vacation, you won’t want to miss the valuable information and services provided at Booking Buddy. The company specializes in helping customers locate the best rates on airline flights both within the U.S. and abroad. In addition to low airline rates, Booking Buddy can also help you save on other travel needs such as rental cars, hotel rooms, and cruise packages. For business or personal travel, visit their website for some of the best deals around. Best of all, the services provided by Booking Buddy are completely free of charge.

The big pitch: While vacation or travel time should be an enjoyable event, often the preparation for such a trip can be both stressful and a headache. Sure you’d like to save money on your personal vacation or business trip, but locating the lowest rates on travel services can be quite a task. With all of the different companies and websites to browse through, finding a good deal can take up hours of your valuable time. Why not save yourself the hassle and worry associated with making travel plans and let Booking Buddy do all of the work for you?
To start saving on your next getaway, all you need to do is visit their website. The process is both simple and fast. Finding the lowest rates on airline tickets no longer need take up a great deal of your time. Simply type in your destination and travel dates and Booking Buddy will do the rest. There’s no need to browse several different websites to compare rates and price quotes. At Booking Buddy, all the information you need can be found in one location.

Even if you’re not currently planning to travel in the near future, stop by the Booking Buddy website for an update on some of the current travel deals available. Once you see the savings offered for airline tickets and other travel accommodations, you’ll probably be tempted to travel more often.

For those who desire more travel information, Booking Buddy offers free weekly travel newsletters. Customers can get frequent updates to some of the lowest travel rates around. All you need to do to sign up for the service is enter your email address in the form provided. In no time at all, you can learn how to save money on a wealth of travel services.

Product Trends Rating: Booking Buddy provides customers with a valuable service by offering some of the lowest rates on airfare, hotels, and car rental fees. Not only can they save you money but time as well. Instead of spending hours browsing the Web, travel customers can now find the best deals in a matter of minutes. In addition to great service, all information located at their website is completely free of charge. Five stars.

Online Moving Boxes

About Online Moving Boxes: Online Moving Boxes is a company that offers everything you need to make your next move as easy and painless as possible. Realizing that moving from your house or office is one of the most stressful, disruptive processes we have to endure, the founders of Online Moving Boxes saw an opportunity to make the experience a little easier to handle.

The big pitch: Did you know that, when it comes to stress levels, moving house is right up there alongside divorce, weddings and coping with teenage kids? Moving office is no picnic either. And it’s no mystery why – when you move house or office, your life is turned upside down. Your possessions are all over the place, and you feel displaced and disordered. Online Moving Boxes can’t do magic, but they can make the process just a little bit easier.

Online Moving Boxes offer a huge selection of moving products so that – at the very least – you have an efficient and complete selection of boxes, cartons and other materials to make sure that you can get through the move as quickly as possible.

In fact, people are often surprised when they come to move house or office that the one thing they haven’t thought of is how to store their goods while they are in transit. Too often, people are left rummaging around the local supermarket or begging shop owners for discarded boxes – a frustrating exercise that simply wastes the time and energy you need for the move itself. Save yourself the bother by viewing Online Moving Boxes selection over the internet, and buying online. With overnight delivery to almost all locations in the USA,  you will be ready to start your move within 24 hours. As well as an extensive selection of easy-to-assemble boxes of all dimensions, as well as bubble wrap, packing tape and dispensers and other handy accessories, your move will become streamlined and hassle-free.

Indeed, Online Moving Boxes even offer moving kits, making shopping for moving goods even easier. So don’t worry about forgetting the tape or the all-important marker to label your boxes – with a moving kit, all the basics are there. Products Trends Rating: Some customers may be frustrated if they are not in a 24 hour-delivery area. That said, Online Moving Boxes is literally a godsend for people going through the stress of moving. Their boxes are durable and strong, and they have all the easy-to-forget accessories that make moving a bit easier to bear. Three stars.

About the company: Travel Guard International is the industry’s leading travel insurance provider - covering more than 6 million travelers worldwide each year. Their travel insurance plans offer coverage for vacation and trip cancellation, travel interruptions and delays, emergency medical and health expenses, lost baggage and more. Plus, every Travel Guard insurance plan includes a 24-hour "911" travel emergency service for urgent medical assistance, last-minute or emergency travel and flight changes, lost luggage tracking, pre-trip travel advice, and more.

The big pitch: With every Travel Guard insurance plan you will also receive 24-hour travel assistance.

When I was six months pregnant, my husband and I were celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary when we decided to take what we thought would be our last trip together as a couple before our baby. Hours before we were supposed to leave, I started having contractions, forcing us to cancel our airline tickets, our hotel reservations, and in the end, it cost us a lot of money. Little did I know that had we held a travel insurance policy, we could have been protected from loss.

Travel Guard offers policies catered to your needs as a traveler. They sell coverage for cruises, international travel, single trips, flights, students, travel medical insurance, and annual policies. The company also offers 24-hour protection and assistance for a number of problems that can occur while traveling.

The two biggest risks that travelers can incur are the costs of canceling or changing travel plans and medical care during your trip. Travel Guard not only covers these issue, but they seem to have the broadest scope of coverage in the industry.

The Wall Street Journal recently said, “In the future, you might consider buying insurance to cover the cost of canceling hotel or rental accommodations because the property is uninhabitable. Travel Guard of Stevens Point, Wis., offers such insurance at a cost between 5% and 7% of the trip’s total value.”

Moreover, the 24-hour hotline, with live people answering, is a real plus. While other companies offer similar plans, they don’t all offer this nifty extra. One problem with the policy, however, is that they have a strike list posted on their web site. The policy does not offer coverage if an airline on their list goes on strike during your vacation time. As much as this is annoying, it is, however, a standard practice in the industry.

It is important, when purchasing this travel insurance, to decide how much coverage you truly need. Consider all possibilities, then decide if the cost of the policy is actually worth it if those issues crop up during your vacation. And when you decide that travel insurance is for you, Travel Guard International should be your first stop.

The Product Trends rating: Four stars. This company offers very reliable customer service and fast claims. If you’re interested in travel insurance, this is certainly the way to go. –- Reviewed by Mindy Matter

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