Golfersmith just announced a new coupon code which is actually the best value coupon code of the year. But it’s only available until September 3rd so you will have to act fast to get in on the deals.

The coupon code EPS735LAB offers a 15% discount across the board on every single category of the site PLUS free shipping on orders of $75. I have been following Golfersmith for some time and like to take advantage of their sales but I’ve never seen them publish a coupon offering both a discount plus free shipping.

Let me know what you bought…

Here’s a site to bookmark for future use. Topmovingcompanies.com is doing to the moving business what insurance quote sites have done to the insurance sector by providing consumers and easy interface to compare and get quotes from moving companies. All you have to do is enter the type of mover you want, your current location, where you are moving to and some other basic information and you get quotes specific to your needs to choose from.

Many times I hear people talk about how they are looking for new and exciting destinations to travel and that they feel like they are just recycling the same old trips. But no one is suggesting that even our small world is not large enough for a lifetime of travels and even the most experienced traveler always has new places to discover. The problem is usually either budget or time. Since many interesting destinations require a larger budget and in many cases just can’t be crammed in the typical week long vacation.

However people with more time to spare (money to spare helps too but is not necessarily a requirement) are the ones who can enjoy the real exotic destinations and discover some true adventures. A great place to visit if you have at least three weeks to spend is China and the Far East. While the region is huge and even in several months you won’t be able to cover a fraction of what is to see you can focus on some areas and discover different cultures. If your starting point is Hong Kong, be sure to make a stop in Guangzhou, less than 100 miles away.

Besides being one of the largest metropolitans in China, Guangzhou has many tourist attractions including the Guangdong Provincial Museum, the Shishi Holy Heart Cathedral and theTemple of the Six Banyan Trees. There are many great hotels in Guangzhou you can stay in with a hotel for pretty much any budget. As traveling in China is typically a long venture and can become quite costly, be sure to check out asiahotels.com to find a huge selection of cheap asian hotels to keep your trip within your budget.

There are so many package deals that contain a flight and hotel combination which as we mentioned in the previous post can be quite convenient as there’s no planning to do and you know you are being taken care of. But if you do decide on planning your trip yourself, you can drastically enhance your experience with just a few added touches.

The one thing that can really improve your trip is combining more than one destination. Obviously you don’t want to combine two completely separate destinations and they have to be close, but if done properly you can add a lot of depth to your trip. For instance, many people are now choosing to shorten their stay at hotels in Barcelona and are choosing to spend the rest of their stay at hotels in Madrid. You can reach one from the other in just an hour’s flight and it’s well worth the extra expense.

Cheaperthanhotels.co.uk offers some great deals on both destinations and operates a local site offering deals on Hoteles en Barcelona as well as Hotels en Madrid for a Spanish speaking audience.

It has become quite popular over the past few years to book a vacation through a packaged deal which includes both fights and hotels. Typically such deals come out cheaper than booking your flight and hotels separately and they offer the convenience of a complete package deal. But the convenience of a complete package comes at the expense of flexibility. You are usually limited to specific dates and can only stay at certain hotels.

By booking online it is often possible to enjoy from both worlds and benefit from low prices while still keeping the option of choosing your own dates and hotels. With a little research you can also organize your complete itinerary including internal flights to match your schedule and at very attractive rates. For instance of you are traveling to Europe you can find some extremely cheap flights within Europe so you can enjoy more than one city during your trip.

A popular “self serve” trip that is easy to organize yourself is combining a trip to Berlin with a trip to Vienna. You can easily see both in less than one week and by booking online you can get extremely good rates on hotels in Berlin. Work with the online schedules to find a good flight before booking your hotels in Vienna for the second half of your trip. The hotel site also has a translated version of their website to make booking hotels in Berlin and hotels in Vienna easy for Europeans as well.

Being green has become quite an in thing today and it seems like everywhere you go people are talking about it. But talking the talk doesn’t impress me. However, when I see some real action being taken, especially from a large corporation – that’s impressive. That’s why I thought I should share with you this press release from British Gas:

9 August 2007: British Gas has announced it is launching two new green energy tariffs, Zero Carbon, which will be the greenest tariff available on the domestic market and Future Energy. British Gas has launched the tariffs, in response to the increasing demand for green energy products.

Householders signing up to the Zero Carbon tariff will:
• reduce their household energy carbon emissions to zero through Kyoto compliant offset schemes which will meet the new Defra requirements
• help fund a direct increase in investment in renewable energy generated in the UK
• contribute to the new British Gas green fund which will:
o invest in developing new renewable technologies such as wave power
o oversee a programme to help schools in the UK reduce their CO2 emissions

Gearóid Lane, Managing Director British Gas New Energy said,”Our new tariff responds to consumer demand for truly green energy solutions. It is essential that customers have confidence in green energy tariffs and that their credibility is not damaged by tariffs that claim to be green but in reality do not deliver any incremental environmental benefits. Green tariffs are moving from niche to mainstream products and we’re leading the industry by offering a tariff that will do more for the environment than any other product currently available.”

Under the government’s Renewables Obligation (RO), electricity suppliers in the UK are already required to produce an increasing percentage of their electricity through methods such as wind farms which, unlike traditional power plants, produce zero carbon emissions. For 2007/2008 this figure is set at 7.9%.

In a recent report, the National Consumer Council (NCC) raised concerns that some energy suppliers are packaging electricity which is produced under the RO scheme as “green”, yet it delivers no additional environmental benefits. The NCC called on energy suppliers to take steps beyond their legal requirements and offer green energy tariffs that provide genuine additional environmental benefits, in particular CO2 emissions reduction.

British Gas worked with Global Action Plan and The Climate Group’s “We’re in this Together” campaign to develop Zero Carbon which goes further than any other green tariff in meeting these requirements offering consumers the only zero carbon option on the market.

The tariff carries a premium of £84 per year, reflecting the higher cost of producing energy through lower carbon emission schemes.

Virginia Graham, Chair of Global Action Plan, said, “The British Gas Zero Carbon tariff delivers on all three of the essential requirements of a green tariff which are: additionality, transparency and verifiability. As such it is a very welcome new offering in the market. Consumers signing up to the tariff can be confident that they are getting 12 per cent more renewable energy than they would otherwise have got. The carbon emissions from their electricity and gas will also be offset with emissions reductions from projects accredited by the United Nations.”

Zero Carbon is one of the first initiatives launched through the ‘We’re in this Together’ campaign, which was launched in April 07 as an alliance of some of the UK’s biggest brands who are all working to help their customers reduce their impact on the climate.

Dr Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group and founder of ‘We’re in this Together’ said, “We’re committed to offering people ways to make a real impact on climate change through Together.com. We’ve worked with British Gas to ensure that Zero Carbon is a genuine step forward in delivering more environmental benefits than any other tariff currently available.”

British Gas’s second green energy tariff, Future Energy, offers an alternative green electricity tariff at a premium of just £20 per year. Customers signing up to this tariff will contribute to a green fund which will provide solar panels and other renewable energy technologies to UK schools. Money from the fund will also be invested in development of future renewable technologies and sources.

To sign up customers can call British Gas on 0845 604 0055 or visit www.britishgas.co.uk