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Target Circle Members: 1-Year Tripadvisor Plus Membership

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Target offers Circle Members (free to join): 1-Year Tripadvisor Plus Membership for Free.

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About Tripadvisor Plus:
  • Member-only savings on 100,000 hotels worldwide
  • 10% Off All Experiences
  • Perks and benefits from our partners
  • Expert Travel Advice via Text

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  • About this Offer:
    • Offer available to redeem March 5 through September 5, 2023
    • Can cancel anytime if you don't need/want
    • This subscription normally costs $99/Year.

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Update: This popular deal is still available.

Target offers Circle Members (free to join): 1-Year Tripadvisor Plus Membership for Free.

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About Tripadvisor Plus:
  • Member-only savings on 100,000 hotels worldwide
  • 10% Off All Experiences
  • Perks and benefits from our partners
  • Expert Travel Advice via Text

Editor's Notes

Written by SlickDealio | Staff
  • About this Offer:
    • Offer available to redeem March 5 through September 5, 2023
    • Can cancel anytime if you don't need/want
    • This subscription normally costs $99/Year.

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Here's a review by one person on their forum. I hope they don't require a payment method or you can just cancel right away, but keep the membership. Guess we'll see next week how good the membership is.

"137. Re: Is TripAdvisor Plus Worth It?
Feb 4, 2023, 9:03 AM

Definitely NOT worth it. I've had for a yr and the perks and discounts are almost non existent. No good deals on hotels outside of the US. I'm cancelling"
So now Trip Advisor wants us to pay $99 to be able to read "expert reviews" that Trip Advisor has begged from people to write for free for the last 10+ years. What started out as a friendly "community of travelers to help and advise each other in their journey" has now been monetized, with the additional carrot of a 10% discount on a hotel stay.

Puuuleeze. I've left many Trip Advisor reviews through the years, and had a pretty high traveler rating at one point, but I've naturally moved away from using Trip Advisor in recent years after their promotional (paid) reviews started taking over. With all the options available online now, TA just doesn't seem to be as honest and relevant anymore.

I refuse to believe $99 will pay for itself more than joining a hotel chain loyalty program (for free). ...in fact, a $45 annual AAA membership will provide better benefits, and will be guaranteed to work in more places, hotels, attractions, etc, for at least a 10% discount. Plus all the protection benefits for your car, like free towing, emergency gas, flat tire fixes, etc - plus you can actually call a toll free number to talk to a AAA person who can help you plan travel and find deals.

If the incentive for saving 10% on hotels and attractions is what is drawing your interest, I would stay very far away from this one.
There is actually already a subscription service to monitor your subscription services.

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Wow, nice find. I'll set a reminder for that one.

Don't forget about the Target Circle Apple TV+ 3-months free and other Apple service trials too.

https://www.target.com/circle/partners
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Need to book a flight for late may, do they actually provide cheaper airfare or are they similar to all of the other travel sites
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Here's a review by one person on their forum. I hope they don't require a payment method or you can just cancel right away, but keep the membership. Guess we'll see next week how good the membership is.

"137. Re: Is TripAdvisor Plus Worth It?
Feb 4, 2023, 9:03 AM

Definitely NOT worth it. I've had for a yr and the perks and discounts are almost non existent. No good deals on hotels outside of the US. I'm cancelling"
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From some Google hotel searches in the past I seen tripadvisor plus offer a rate much cheaper than others options at least a couple times.
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Quote from himeko123 :
Here's a review by one person on their forum. I hope they don't require a payment method or you can just cancel right away, but keep the membership. Guess we'll see next week how good the membership is.

"137. Re: Is TripAdvisor Plus Worth It?
Feb 4, 2023, 9:03 AM

Definitely NOT worth it. I've had for a yr and the perks and discounts are almost non existent. No good deals on hotels outside of the US. I'm cancelling"
I don't think I would base my decision off only ONE person's review.
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Good grief, everyone and their mom wants you to join their subscription these days

EDIT: I'd like to formally announce my own brand new subscription service, called "You Idiot", where for $10/mo I will degrade you for signing up for unnecessary subscription services. Guaranteed to pay for itself within 12 months.
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Quote from westermac :
Good grief, everyone and their mom wants you to join their subscription these days
Can I interest you in a free 1-month trial of SubscriptCeption? It's a subscription service for subscription services. You won't believe the savings!
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Quote from westermac :
Good grief, everyone and their mom wants you to join their subscription these days

EDIT: I'd like to formally announce my own brand new subscription service, called "You Idiot", where for $10/mo I will degrade you for signing up for unnecessary subscription services. Guaranteed to pay for itself within 12 months.
There is actually already a subscription service to monitor your subscription services.
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Quote from Stryder5 :
"We're sorry but Tripadvisor Plus isn't available for you yet."

Guess they don't want my money
Did you read the bold red letters in the post?
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Quote from Wavy-Nife :
Did you read the bold red letters in the post?
Sorry, edited my post to clarify that was direct from TripAdivsor site. I was clicking the tripadvisor details [tripadvisor.com]link to see what "plus" includes and it says not available. Unless it means that TripAdvisor Plus is not available to anyone until Target says so?
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Quote from westermac :
Good grief, everyone and their mom wants you to join their subscription these days

EDIT: I'd like to formally announce my own brand new subscription service, called "You Idiot", where for $10/mo I will degrade you for signing up for unnecessary subscription services. Guaranteed to pay for itself within 12 months.
How about free? Simply comment on any Walmart or home Depot clearance ymmv thread that you called the store to check inventory ... Smilie
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So now Trip Advisor wants us to pay $99 to be able to read "expert reviews" that Trip Advisor has begged from people to write for free for the last 10+ years. What started out as a friendly "community of travelers to help and advise each other in their journey" has now been monetized, with the additional carrot of a 10% discount on a hotel stay.

Puuuleeze. I've left many Trip Advisor reviews through the years, and had a pretty high traveler rating at one point, but I've naturally moved away from using Trip Advisor in recent years after their promotional (paid) reviews started taking over. With all the options available online now, TA just doesn't seem to be as honest and relevant anymore.

I refuse to believe $99 will pay for itself more than joining a hotel chain loyalty program (for free). ...in fact, a $45 annual AAA membership will provide better benefits, and will be guaranteed to work in more places, hotels, attractions, etc, for at least a 10% discount. Plus all the protection benefits for your car, like free towing, emergency gas, flat tire fixes, etc - plus you can actually call a toll free number to talk to a AAA person who can help you plan travel and find deals.

If the incentive for saving 10% on hotels and attractions is what is drawing your interest, I would stay very far away from this one.
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Quote from bluekiwi :
Need to book a flight for late may, do they actually provide cheaper airfare or are they similar to all of the other travel sites
Wondering the same for a trip late March to Las Vegas
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my subscription just ended in January, and I paid for it last year. It does work out to be cheaper SOMETIMES but not all the time. We mainly got it because we were looking for resorts in Vegas over spring break and the cost of Trip+ and booking through them was a few hundred cheaper than other choices. We thought we'd use it once and let it be. So for us, it worked.

When we booked excursions for traveling to Hawaii, we saved a little there ($20-$30 each time )but we already had the subscription. That alone would not be worth it.

We would have paid for it again but with it being free...why not?

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