Great Value Vacation Ideas for Your Next Getaway

Lasting travel memories are surprisingly affordable with trusted AAA partner Costsaver. Enjoy carefully crafted value vacations that include all the essentials—transportation, accommodations, sightseeing highlights, expert travel directors and many meals on over 76 trips around the world.

These trips also come packed with fun and the ability to tailor your experience so you can indulge in your interests through optional experience add-ons or time spent exploring on your own. Another bonus: Your AAA Membership adds even more value, plus access to travel advisors who can help guide you.

Find out what sets a Costsaver trip, the ultimate in flexibility, apart as we spotlight four of our favorite vacations.

Costsaver makes it easy so you can make the most of it

Enjoying your vacation is easier when you know that your essentials have been vetted and organized by Costsaver travel experts. With over 100 years of experience in travel, Costsaver’s destination expertise ensures that you have the very best highlights to create an adventure that is uniquely you. Here’s what to expect on every trip:

An air-conditioned luxury motorcoach will transport you to each destination, with baggage handling, hotel charges and local taxes included. Transportation to and from the airport on the first and last day of the tour is also included.

Stay at hand-picked three- and four-star hotels, with the perfect mix of having many meals included and indulging as you wish at restaurants you’ve been wanting to try. When it comes to sightseeing, enjoy a tour in all major cities—your dedicated travel director and local specialists will bring the destinations to life. You can even upgrade most tours to travel exclusively with just your friends and family.

Book with confidence, knowing that if for any reason you change your mind up until 30 days before your trip, you can choose new dates and/or a new destination without penalty on the land portion of your trip. And while you’re on your journey, a dedicated wellness director helps ensure your safety and well-being.

Travels that inspire

Costsaver offers trips to more than 55 countries—with options available for 2021, 2022 and even 2023. The choice is yours: Select the value vacation that matches your desires and then fine-tune it with the many options you can choose from. Here’s a taste of what you can enjoy on Costsaver’s most popular journeys.

Fall Colors of New England

If the thought of New England brings to mind images of picture-perfect villages, sleepy fishing towns, vast swathes of beaches and distinguished summer homes, this trip will not disappoint.

Trip highlights:

• Set out along Boston’s Freedom Trail to see the historic sites; visit the Cape Cod seashore with its massive sand dunes and long sandy beaches.

• Stop at Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks in Montpelier, Vermont, and taste “sugar on snow,” that is, hot maple sugar that turns to taffy when it’s drizzled over shaved ice (and served with a fresh doughnut or pickle).

• Discover the quintessential New England town of North Conway, New Hampshire, full of historic buildings, quaint antique shops, bookstores and bakeries. Then go on to Portsmouth, near the mouth of the Piscataqua River, which runs along part of the New Hampshire-Maine state line.

Options that make it even more special:

• Nature enthusiasts can hit the waters surrounding Plymouth, Massachusetts, to seek the humpback, minke and pilot whales that migrate here.
• Visit The Breakers, a summer home in Newport, Rhode Island, once owned by the Vanderbilt family.

Spectacular Canyons and National Parks

Journey from Las Vegas to the granite faces of Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Along the way, visit the mighty Grand Canyon, the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon, the geysers of Yellowstone National Park and much more.

Trip highlights:

• Gaze in awe at Mount Rushmore, the massive sculpture depicting the faces of four U.S. presidents, and at Crazy Horse Memorial, the world’s largest mountain carving.

• See the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn; Lake Powell, the second largest human-made lake in the U.S.; and Monument Valley, an area sacred to the Navajo people.

• If you love the wide-open outdoors, you’re in luck. Visit the wonders of Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Zion national parks.

Options that make it even more special:

• For a real cowboy cookout experience, travel by horse-drawn wagon to beautiful Cache Creek Canyon, where you’re treated to a delicious Dutch oven dinner.

• Gently float along a 10-mile stretch of the Snake River through Grand Teton National Park, accompanied by an experienced guide who shares stories and points out wildlife.

Costa Rica Adventure

Rainforests teeming with wildlife plus golden beaches and an active volcano are all yours to experience on this adventure.

Trip highlights:

• Enjoy the trails and suspension bridges of Arenal Volcano National Park, take a scenic float trip safari, and hike along lava trails through a nearby private reserve.

• Hike in Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve as your local specialist offers insight into the region’s unique bird and wildlife ecosystems.

• Tour San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica, and explore Sarchi, famed for its intricately painted ox carts.

Options that make it even more special:

• Admire views of the Gulf of Nicoya as you ride through coffee and sugarcane plantations, keeping an eye out for monkeys and toucans.

• Look for wildlife as you ride a gondola through the trees, and then feel the thrill as you zip line 650 feet above the rainforest floor.

Spanish Experience

Life in Spain is the fiesta you’ve been looking for: Afternoon siestas give way to the fiery rhythms of the flamenco, late-night tapas bars and illuminated plazas filled with patrons ready for a night on the town.

Trip highlights:

• Spain offers a perfect intersection of architecture and history: In Barcelona, see Antoni Gaudi’s Gothic basilica, La Sagrada Familia; in Madrid, take in the Royal Palace; in Seville, enjoy views of a cathedral, the Plaza de Espana and La Giralda tower; and in Toledo, see a synagogue and a cathedral.

• Want even more history? Learn about sword-making at a steel workshop and see the inn where the fictional Don Quixote is said to have been dubbed a knight.

• Enjoy a beauty that is uniquely Spain with a visit to Peniscola’s ancient castle that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea and Madrid’s El Retiro Park.

Options that make it even more special:

• Visit Segovia’s fairy-tale castle Alcazar, a soaring ancient Roman aqueduct and ornate esgrafiado facades.

• Embrace the passion and rhythm of a mesmerizing Andalusian flamenco in Seville.