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College Students, Check Out These Holiday Travel Deals ASAP

There is one silver lining for college students with finals season approaching: being able to take a break from school and relax during the holiday season. A perfect way to end your semester on a high note is to travel back home or abroad to celebrate the end of the year with family and friends — with the aid of holiday travel deals for 2023, of course.

Whether your journey will take minutes, hours, or days to arrive at your holiday destination, we all should have access to affordable flights to see our family and friends. After a semester — or even for some of us, a year — of all those long hours filled with sweat, tears, and studying, we deserve to be compensated in some form. What better way to be rewarded than by being able to guarantee a seat on a flight, whether that may be back to your hometown or to a vacation destination?

Despite Cyber Monday and Travel Tuesday discounts coming to an end, you still have an opportunity to save money and avoid holiday travel surges through numerous travel deals. With school ending, you should have no reason to stress. Rather, through these seasonal promotions, you can spend more time sleeping and sharing the holiday season with your loved ones.

So whether you plan to travel home or book a flight for an all-inclusive resort experience, here are some winter holiday travel deals you should look into.

Amazon Prime Student’s $25 Flight Deal

For the first time, Amazon will be assisting students across the nation by making holiday travel more accessible. Between Dec. 5 and midnight Pacific time on Dec. 7, a total of 3,000 Prime Student members will have the opportunity to book $25 domestic flights. To participate in this deal, you can visit the Prime Student x StudentUniverse page. The flight deal is eligible on domestic flights for travel from Dec. 8, 2023, to Dec. 25, 2023, with return flights being between Dec. 8, 2023, and Jan. 14, 2024. If you’re not already signed up for Prime Student, sign up today to snag this deal.

Delta Airlines’ “Fly Into A Winter Wonderland”

Missed Travel Tuesday deals? Delta Airlines got you covered!  Delta recently released a  “Fly Into A Winter Wonderland” discount list on their website, offering seasonal fares to numerous locations including Mexico and Florida. So whether you want to wander in an actual winter wonderland or be swept away in a tropical paradise, Delta Airlines offers various discounts in cash and Delta SkyMiles. This promotion is available from December 2023 to January 2024.

Sandals and Beaches

Ditch the snowboards and puffers by spending time with your family and friends in a Sandals and Beaches all-inclusive resort. From Nov. 13 through Dec. 21, you and your loved ones can receive up to $750 in flight credits and $250 in resort credits by using the code GOB2023. Some of the eligible resorts for this discount include the Sandals Dunn’s River in Jamaica.

Fasten your seatbelt and watch the deals skyrocket as you fly to your next destination. Whether it be sunny southwest Florida or the concrete jungle of New York City, you deserve to travel affordably.

Eliana Jacobs is a National Contributing Writer for Her Campus. Born and raised in Southwest Florida, Eliana writes articles about lifestyle, Her 20s, and career-related goals/activities. Before becoming a national writer, Eliana wrote under the UCF Her Campus Chapter,where she wrote about health and wellness. Additionally, she has a passion for social justice, advocacy, and race-related news. Beyond Her Campus, Eliana also writes flash fiction and poetry for the nation’s largest student-run organization, Strike Magazine. Some of her most recent publications include Life In Plastic: It’s “Fantastic”. Eliana also was awarded multiple honorable mentions for her writing during her undergraduate career in her school’s Tutors’ Choice Flash Fiction Contest. Lastly, she recently graduated from the University of Central Florida, earning a dual degree in Sociology and Interdisciplinary Studies on a Pre-Medical Track. Ultimately, Eliana aspires to pursue an MD/MPH to specialize in Pediatric Endocrinology while intersecting her passion for public health through medical research, poetry, and journalism. In her free time, Eliana enjoys shopping, working out, and traveling. Lastly, Eliana loves exploring local cuisines and documenting restaurants she tried (Orlando and beyond) on her food Instagram.