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LastMinuteTravel Is Back At It: Score Cheap Rooms During $10 Tuesdays

Although we're still recovering from the hectic grab-fest that was LastMinuteTravel's World For $1 Contest back in January, their new promo—"$10 Tuesdays"— sounds like something to jump on.

Their plan: to offer rooms at a selection of hotels in city and escape destinations every Tuesday for $10 a night. Our plan: to get one of these mystery rooms. You see, LastMinuteTravel won't be revealing the name of the hotel until after you book. But each Tuesday special listings will display property specifics, star rating, amenities, the hotel's neighborhood and proximity to popular attractions. Start your guesswork now in preparation for tomorrow.

How it'll work tomorrow: Visit LastMinuteTravel and click on their special "$10 deals" on the homepage. Click early, since specific stay dates within the next four weeks will be up for grabs, and only certain cities will have specials each Tuesday. Once you've settled on a $10 hotel date, book it and the property will be revealed. They will sell out quickly, so LMT advises people gung-ho on the offer to follow them on Twitter (@LMTtweets) for sold-out alerts.

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Hong Kong or Bust, Thanks to LastMinuteTravel's 'World for $1'

Warm up your fingers for some fast typing and do some breathing exercises to keep from hyperventilating, because now begins the second and final week of LastMinuteTravel's "World for $1" promotion. Last week saw some serious chatter around the net as to how to best nab these deals, available for a random 15 minutes each day, and it looks like the tip sharing helped as LMT has announced that already almost 1,000 reservations have been made. They've broken down the winnings further on their blog:

Since the beginning of The World for $1 sale, 928 reservations have been made for less than the cost of a movie ticket! And 48% of these reservations were for high-end, luxury hotels! The 2,197 people going on these vacations are headed to 224 different destinations with Orlando, Las Vegas, New York, Cancun and Honolulu topping the list!

That's quite a lot of exclamation marks, but all well-deserved as this is one contest you can actually win. In fact, we're living proof of it. All the stars aligned perfectly for us last week, and we ended up booking 7 nights in a 5-star hotel in Hong Kong. Pairing it with Cathay Pacific's airfare deal, we're amazed and delighted to say that we're doing a week in HK for under $1000, all-in. And we leave today. Good luck with all the clicking, and even though we'll be on another continent in less than 15 hours, we'll still be rooting for you from over there.

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LastMinuteTravel's 'World for a Dollar' Turning Frowns Upside Down

Have you scored a $1-a-night booking yet during LastMinuteTravel's "World for a Dollar" promotion? The reports of successful confirmations around the world are pouring in, and it seems like this is one promotion destined for a spot in the history of travel awesomeness. A friend of ours has even received a call from LastMinuteTravel to personally check on her booking and answer any questions; this dedication to customer service is surprising considering the usual facelessness of online booking sites.

In order to keep a conversation going with their site visitors and answer the most pressing questions, LMT has started a 'World for $1' Blog. In addition, a press release today confirms that the deal is up, active, and delivering on promises:

The average vacation booked during Monday’s sales were 5 nights long and valued at $1,965.69, with travelers spending less than the cost of a movie ticket on each trip. 65 percent of these reservations were for high-end, luxury properties, and consumers booked a total of 62 destinations world wide, including the following top six travel locales:
1. New York, N.Y.
2. Orlando, Fla.
3. Paris, France
4. Anaheim, Calif.
5. Chicago, Ill.
6. Nassau, Bahamas

Looks like people still love hitting Disneyworld and Disneyland! If you're in the mood for something a little more exotic, LMT does have hotels available in spots like Beijing, Bali and Buenos Aires, but brace yourselves as there's still seven more days of frantic page refreshing left.

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"The World for $1" Promo Begins Pissing Off People Today

While we're still a little sore from that whole $19.28 promotion gone wrong from the Leading Hotels of the World, LastMinuteTravel.com's "World for a Dollar" contest is too good to be ignored. The deal is, supposedly, that if you're among the first 500 people to book a hotel stay during a secret 15-minute period each weekday when they mark down all of their hotels to $1, then you've got up to seven nights in a top-notch property for $7. This will happen every weekday starting today through the end of next week. It's got to be too good to be true, right?

Right, if your time is precious and you value your sanity. You see, once LastMinuteTravel has you dreaming of "winning" a cheap escape, you get to scheming. The confusing clues they're trickling out in a zany video series are definitely not helping either; we'd come up with about eight theories for when today's countdown would begin, and all were wrong.

Taking us completely by surprise, today's 15 minutes happened from 10:39 to 10:54am, EST. We randomly caught it with four minutes to spare, and although we feverishly went to work attempting a booking, the website has three mean tricks up its sleeve to frustrate you all the more:

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Hotel Rooms For a Dolla Dolla Bill, Y'all?

Hey! Remember that one time Leading Hotels of the World tried to offer hotel rooms for $19.28 for a 90-minute period of time in the fall and the servers went down and nobody got a room and then they had to apologize and do the whole thing over?

Well, this gimmick is kind of like that gimmick, except less prone to major failure because nobody knows exactly when it's going to happen, thereby (in theory) decreasing the likelihood of a server-destroying traffic surge. The deal: LastMinuteTravel.com has launched a promotion called The World For A Dollar, which offers visitors to the website the chance to book pretty nice hotels rooms for up to seven consecutive nights for $1 per night, valid at any of the 15,000 hotels in the LastMinuteTravel's inventory.

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