Fabulously frugal Labor Day getaway ideas

One of the great things about having a blog—aside from sleeplessness, the abject humiliation of Google ads and exacerbation of pre-existing ADD—is that people send you all kinds of links to sites you didn’t know about. One of our happiest new discoveries (really) is Jauntsetter, a travel site for women—no, not womyn—published by Dorothy McGivney, a former Google employee who cashed in her stock for tens of millions and went off on a trip around the world, thus gathering material for a travel blog.

Actually we made up the tens of millions, but if you don’t believe the travel-blog part, see Jauntsetter’s guide to Labor Day weekend trips, which has deals like the $90 rooms at Roosevelt Inn in Hyde Park (above), the $116-a-night rates at the achingly chic Donovan Hotel in DC and $164 roundtrip tickets on USAir to Somesville Maine, where rooms at the stately Claremont Hotel (right, so cute we wanna keep it for ourselves) start at $125 a night. And much more! We’re bookmarking this one.

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Faye :Faye Penn is the founder of Brokelyn and publisher of the Brooklyn and Queens Beer Books, the Brooklyn Cocktail Book and other stuff you ain't seen yet. She lives in Ditmas Park. Get at her at brokelyn@gmail.com

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ridesharer says:

Aug 26, 2009 at 5:52 am

Doesnt sound too frugal to me! Frugal is more in the $10-$20 range! :-)

Faye says:

Aug 26, 2009 at 8:48 am

This issue comes up all of the time--one person's frugal is another one's splurge. I recognize that, for a lot of readers, booking any hotel at alll isn't an option right now, while others will consider these reasonable. Have you ever seen a hotel room for $10 to $20 in this country? Or one for $60 where you actually want to stay? Of course, there is Priceline...