We’re a small editorial team obsessed with finding travel deals worth booking.
Best Vacation Deals started with a simple frustration: every “deal site” we read felt like a glorified affiliate dump. Sponsored posts dressed up as recommendations. Recycled press releases. The same ten hotels in the same ten cities. We thought travelers deserved better, so we built it.
Our mission
We curate trips. We don’t catalogue them. There are thousands of travel sites that will happily show you every hotel in every city — we’re not interested in being one of them. Instead, we partner with more than 100 travel brands (Booking.com, Viator, GetYourGuide, Hotellook, DiscoverCars, Agoda, Stay22 and many more) and pull the deals that are actually worth your time. If a price doesn’t beat what you’d find on your own, we don’t write about it.
That filter — “would I book this myself?” — is the only one that matters to us. It’s also why our editorial mix skews toward shoulder-season finds, all-inclusive resort drops, hidden city tickets, last-minute Caribbean blocks and tour operators most travelers have never heard of. The obvious stuff is everywhere. We’re after the deals you’d otherwise miss.
How we make money
We earn affiliate commissions when readers book through our partner links. That’s it. We do not accept paid placements, sponsored “best of” inclusions, or pay-to-play reviews. A hotel cannot buy its way onto our recommendation list, and a tour operator cannot pay us to bump them above a better competitor.
When a partner pays us a higher commission than another, we don’t change the order. The deal that wins is the deal that’s actually better for the traveler. If we ever feel a conflict between revenue and editorial integrity, editorial wins — every time. It’s the only way this business works long term.
You can read our full Affiliate Disclosure for the FTC details.
Editorial standards
Every deal we publish goes through the same checks:
- Real pricing data. We pull live rates from partner APIs and compare them against historical baselines. A “deal” has to actually be a deal — not just a normal price with a discount sticker on it.
- No recycled press releases. If a hotel chain sends us a generic “limited time offer” email, it doesn’t get published. We only feature offers we can independently verify.
- Honest tradeoffs. Every deal has fine print. We surface it instead of hiding it — date restrictions, blackout periods, resort fees, refund policies, the works.
- Corrections matter. If we get something wrong, we fix it fast and note the change. Travelers are making real financial decisions based on our work; we treat that seriously.
Meet the editors
Alex Carter — Travel Research Editor
Alex leads our research desk and is responsible for the methodology behind every deal we publish. Before Best Vacation Deals, Alex spent years writing about destination data, pricing patterns, and how the travel booking ecosystem actually works under the hood. If you’ve ever wondered why hotel prices on the same room can swing 40% in 48 hours, Alex has probably written about it.
Jordan Reeves — Deals Editor
Jordan runs deal sourcing — the daily grind of monitoring partner inventory, watching for flash sales, and pulling the listings that make it into our newsletter and feed. Jordan’s background is in distribution and revenue management, which means they can spot a fake “limited time” offer from across the room. Most of the all-inclusive Caribbean and Mexico finds you’ll see on the site came across Jordan’s desk first.
Want to work with us?
If you run a hotel, tour, or travel brand and you genuinely have a great deal for our readers, get in touch. We’ll never charge you to be featured — but if your offer is real, we want to hear about it. The flip side: if a deal we’ve written about doesn’t deliver on its promise, we want to hear that too. Travelers come first, always.