Costco offers steep discounts on luxury hotels, cruises, and rental cars for members.
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Your Costco membership can get you more than just bulk packages of toilet paper and $5 rotisserie chickens.
If you're a Costco member, you can also book hotels, cruises, rental cars, and all-inclusive packages online through Costco Travel.
The Costco Travel website offers vacation packages at luxury resorts in destinations like Tahiti, Costa Rica, Cancún, and Hawaii, and cruises with companies such as Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Princess, at heavily discounted prices.
For example, a Costco Travel vacation package at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa in Maui offers five nights for the price of four and includes the flight, rental car, a room with a partial ocean view, and the hotel's daily breakfast buffet.
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The entire vacation package costs $4,851.45 when booked through Costco Travel. When booking the same room and dates directly through the Hyatt Regency's website, just the hotel reservation costs $5,331.78 — a price that doesn't even include airfare to Maui or a rental car.
For smaller-scale trips, renting a car through Costco comes with a major perk: additional driver fees are waived when booking through Alamo, Enterprise, Budget, or Avis, according to Costco Travel's rental car FAQs.
To book a journey, members need to make a profile on Costco Travel's website separate from the one they use to shop for other items.
Booking trips through any third-party website is inherently a bit riskier than booking directly. If any unforeseen circumstances come up, it can be difficult to make changes or receive refunds.
Still, Costco memberships start at $60 a year — a small price to pay for huge travel savings.
Plus, if you pay with the Costco Anywhere Visa card, you'll earn 3% cash back on purchases through Costco Travel.
