Now this is a great way to help your young child sleep on vacations: the PeaPod Plus Travel Bed from Kidco. Lightweight and compact, the PeaPod Plus is easy to carry through airports and hotels, even for kids. And it unfolds into a self-contained sleeping tent, complete with an inflatable air mattress! Kids love how secure they feel in their own little sleeping tent, and it’s as comfortable as their bed

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It’s that time of year again when rental car companies have too many cars in Arizona and Florida, and start offering big discounts for one way rentals up north. Are you going to try and take advantage? In the right situation you can save big money! Here are the deals we are currently seeing:

Budget: Pick up a car at participating Arizona Budget locations and drop it off at participating locations in the Western U.S. Rates start at $16 per day, the deals expire on May 31, 2012.

Alamo: The one-way deal with Alamo is for $19.99/day from Florida only, but you can return the vehicle anywhere in the continental U.S. outside Florida. This deal is valid between Mar. 23 and May 31, 2012.

Avis: Avis is offering one-way deals from both Arizona and Florida, starting at $16/day and $112/week.

National: The same as Alamo – one way rentals from Florida for $19.99/day, and the car be returned virtually anywhere outside Florida. The deal runs from March 23 through May 31, 2012.

The other major car rental companies will likely come out with deals of their own in the coming weeks – we’ll keep you updated. Good luck saving money!

The new ScanGauge II Automotive Computer helps take some of the stress out of roadtrips and weekend getaways. Just plug in the ScanGauge and you can read you car’s engine trouble codes, track various bits of your trip, extended gauges for tracking fuel economy, batter voltage, etc., and even use it to turn off the “check engine” light! It’s a great tool for road trippers and car geeks of all stripes!

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Just check out this hotel pool. It’s at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and is amazing. The pool is 200m up, perched overlooking the amazing Singapore skyline, and at 150m long it is the world’s longest infinity pool. I must go. Now.

What do you think? Would you go for a swim in that pool?

The eponymous road trip family game, this Travel Bingo works great with littler kids because they just have to match up pictures with what they see. And it’s actually fun, too!

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Keeps your dirty clothes separate from your clean stuff, and keeps the TSA’s even dirtier hands out of your underwear!

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Less than $100 for a waterproof, dustproof, drop-proof digital HD video camera, with full 1080p HD videos as 5 MP HD stills? Awesome. It almost seems silly to go on vacation and not have one of these.

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We love maps, and we confidently believe that maps help teach children about the wonders and joy of travel. And this is one heck of a pretty map. Beautifully colored, it’ll be gazed at for hours on end by the budding travelers in your family!

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This is from TEDxDanubia, a TED Conference that takes place in Budapest. The presentation is by Andrew Evens, the National Geographic Digital Nomad author. How did he achieve his travel dream of traveling to Antarctica? Listen and find out – it’s totally worth it.

We’ve updated out car rental coupons pages for 2012 with some new features that will make them much easier to use, and will make it easier to save money.

1. Coupon Testing: We now have tools that test the coupons we post! Every day we check each and every code on the site, ensuring that they are valid, unexpired, and provide the savings that we say they do.

2. Date Checking: When every page gets updated, they get a date stamp. That way you know how fresh the coupons are on every page.

View the dozens of coupons we have every day on our exclusive pages:

Budget Car Rental Coupons
Avis Car Rental Coupons
Alamo Car Rental Coupons
National Car Rental Coupons
Enterprise Car Rental Coupons
Thrifty Car Rental Coupons
Dollar Car Rental Coupons
Advantage Car Rental Coupons
Hertz Car Rental Coupons

And as always, if you come across a coupon code that we don’t have, let us know! We get many of our codes thanks to the wonderful efforts of our users, let’s all save some money on travel this year!

3. New Relationships: We have coupon code sharing relationships with several dozen websites, including most of the major car rental companies. We absolutely have the most rental car coupons and discounts, all of which are valid and accurate, and it’s been that way for over 10 years!