Sunday, September 20, 2009

Restaurant Deals @ Central Coast Finest

I found another website that offers discounted gift certificates for restaurants. The restaurants are all local, either in Lompoc or Santa Maria. They have a much bigger selection of local restaurants than Restaurant.com does.

Only a certain number of certificates are available. When you view a restaurant, you can see how many certificates are left.

The Saletti's certificates don't go on sale until September 25, but you can bet I'm going to add that to my calendar! I love Friday nights there, listening to live music, sipping martinis at the bar.

Alfie's Fish & Chips and Texas Cattle Company are there too. I'm hungry just thinking about this.

Here's the link: http://ksni.centralcoastfinest.com/

Friday, September 18, 2009

Übercheap Weekend Getaway to San Francisco

The fabulous deal I got on next weeks trip happened like this. I went to United's e-fare website, where they post weekend deals every Tuesday morning. I found Santa Barbara (SBA) to San Francisco (SFO) for $74, round-trip. We'll leave Saturday around noon, and come back Monday around noon. The total price came to a little over $100 for each ticket, after taxes. Still, that's $100 for a round-trip ticket!

The hotel came through Priceline. Just like on TV, I bid a ridiculously low price for a 4-star hotel in San Francisco. The first bid was $50, which was declined. But Priceline said I could raise my bid by $14 and bid again. So I did, and it was accepted. So Saturday and Sunday night, we'll stay at the Hyatt Regency, for $64 each night. $155 after taxes.

And the rental car. I went back to United and used their offer for Hertz. A midsize car was $55 for two days, taxes and everything included. Plus we get a ton of United miles.

And then I went to Restaurant.com, typed in a zip code for San Francisco, and bought a few gift certificates for restaurants on Fisherman's Wharf.

The only thing I don't have are the Broncos/Raiders football tickets for Sunday!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Beam me up!


On Monday, I acted like a tourist in L.A. I drove down Rodeo drive, cruised around Beverly Hills, and then drove over to the take a few pictures of the Hollywood sign. But the highlight of all this was this picture. That's Nichelle Nichols handprint! And my hands fit perfectly inside. I knew she was my hero. Uhura is the fictional version of what I do. I work in Space Command, and my on-crew job was basically to repeat the computer alarms and say, "Yes, Captain."

Monday, September 7, 2009

In Lompoc? Check out this Texas Cattle Company deal.

I just found this deal for Texas Cattle Co. in Lompoc, California. It's a little reminder to you to always, always, always do a simple Google search before you go out to eat. Here's what I found.

A Google search for Texas Cattle Company Lompoc found this:

http://www.restaurant.com/microsite.asp?rid=317830&mcn=00013518

See how it says "$25 gift certificate for $10"? You read that right.

So proceeded to checkout with that, but then there was a box to enter a coupon code for Restaurant.com. So I searched for that and got this:

http://www.retailmenot.com/view/restaurant.com

Scroll down. I used the Allstate coupon, "ALL".

So in the end, I got a $25 gift certificate for (ahem) $5.