I love to travel.
I love to explore.
I love to share that with the kids.
Look at you in the pineapple.
One thing I'm really proud of is I've been able to take my kids on a lot of really great
vacations, very cheaply.
Our vacations can be.
Pretty, pretty cheap. And we rarely fly and we always bring our own food and we only buy
something if you absolutely, positively need it.
Can Megan go on a trip with us again this year?
Her parents are going to pay, right?
Of course.
Mom.
Sam and Liz are two college best friends on the road to New Jersey for an off season
beach vacation.
The cheapest hotel in a beach town, even in the off season, is still going to run you
like $70 a night to avoid the cost.
It just makes way more sense for us to sleep in our car.
We have done this before on several of our trips.
We are looking for people who are checking out.
We're going to try and sweep in there and get to their room before the maids do.
It's all about timing.
All about timing.
Somebody is coming out.
Yes.
Good morning. How are you?
How are you? Good.
So good. So here's.
The question.
You spend the night on the road and now you're looking to score a shower.
So we're thinking like we could just go into one of the rooms, which hasn't been cleaned
yet. Just take a quick shower.
Um, unfortunately, I can't allow that.
What can we do?
Well, usually day rate.
If you were to use the room, it would be 50 to $75.
So how would we do this?
We're using about one sixth of the room with the shower pay about a sixth of the price.
$10 in and out, 20 minutes.
Um.
How am I sure that you guys aren't going to just snag breakfast and leave?
We'll leave a license.
And leave our credit card.
Okay. We'll head upstairs.
We'll use the room for 20 minutes, and we'll come back down.
And if we're down here in 20 minutes, you can charge us $10.
All right.
I guess I can do that.
Nice. Give me the towel.
I would never use a hotel shower after a guest had previously used it.
It's not clean.
Yeah, we got to go like 30 minutes.
I got to.
Bathe. Sam, we got two minutes left or our card will get charged.
Let's go, Let's go, Let's roll.
We not only got a free shower, we.
We scored a few freebies.
The average cost for three to visit Las Vegas is $720 a day before adding extras.
And for Angela, that is too much of a gamble.
I know the girls really want to go try the best restaurants in Las Vegas, but I refuse
to spend a lot of money doing it.
Airline regulations allow people to bring food on the plane as long as it is dry.
Wet food and liquids must be stored in 3.4oz bottles.
I just hope they don't steal my applesauce.
Hey, girls. Mom, what are you doing?
We need to pack as much food as we can in our carry on.
So the only real way to get our clothes to Las Vegas is to wear them all.
Oh, yeah. Checking bags is $25 per bag, which means $75 for the three of us.
And that's money I do not want to spend.
There's still not quite enough room in here.
Katrina, someone need you to put on a few more clothes.
I've never had to travel with all my clothes on.
I really thought that's what the purpose of suitcases were.
But I guess today I'm learning a new purpose for them.
You wanted to go, huh?
We try to make our car more fuel efficient for our trips by weighing our luggage £2,020.
We never want the total weight of us and our luggage to exceed £620.
All right.
Every £100 of weight added to your car decreases fuel efficiency by 1 to 2%.
When you take out £25 of weight, that actually saves you $1 for every 100 miles
that you drive. It's 30.
Yes. So what's our total?
So between the.
Four of us and then plus the weight of the bags, it's a total of £630.
So we're have to go through here, get rid of some stuff, see what we can get rid of.
Yep.
When my dad weighs the bags when we travel to save on gas costs, it's kind of weird.
Hey, we're only going, like, three hours away.
So what does it really matter?
It's going to be like one thing.
Gas, no matter what.
This time, a total of 618 are.
Ready to go.
The whole O'Brien family together weighs £520, so they don't spend a penny more on gas
than they have to.
They always keep their luggage under £100 to maximize their jeeps fuel efficiency.
If they keep the load under £620, they can travel 130 miles to the dude ranch on one
single tank of gas.
When I pull up to a gas pump, I actually don't turn off my ignition.
I leave it on. You actually do waste more gas by turning your car on and off.
You leave it on like they do in the races.
You fill it up.
You don't waste gas, you save money.
When Shaun is pumping the gas as fast as we can, we go into the gas station, go to the
bathroom, fill up the water bottles with water.
All right. All right. Here's the other one.
Take the top off.
That's another huge cost of vacation.
I always fill up my tank when I get to half because it's actually the last few you have
in your car.
The more inefficient it is.
All right, here's the cap. Tie it on.
Quick.
Tight. Not only do I look for the cheapest gas station, I look for the cheapest pump.
The cheapest pump is the one that is coolest.
It has to have cover.
When gas is cooler, it's more dense and you actually end up getting more gas per gallon.
Go, go, go.
It's heavy.
It's heavy. Run, run.
Run, run, run, run! When you're traveling and you're on the.
Road, food can cost upwards of 50, up to maybe $75 a day between two people.
That's a lot. So for our road trip down to the beach, we mapped out many different food
deals.
Okay. What have we got?
You want wings? We have stopped at Mulligan's because they've got a free buffet
with their happy hour.
You girls.
How are we doing down here? Okay.
So good.
Can I get you anything to drink?
Cocktail. We have $1.50 drafts tonight.
I think we're doing all right.
We're doing pretty good.
You know, the idea with the free buffet is, you know, maybe buy a drink to go along with
it.
How did the pints?
$1.50. Okay, that's pretty fair.
Yeah, sure. Can we have one pint?
Two glasses?
One pint. Two glasses.
Huh? I've met my share of cheap customers, but that one, I think, took the cake.
That one definitely took the cake.
Many dude ranches offer all inclusive packages.
The O'Briens chose a dude ranch that features a la carte recreations and have
allowed their kids only free activities.
Saving an additional $100 a day.
But at the heart of every dude ranch experience is a horse ride.
Most dude ranches offer trail rides that cost 50 to $75 an hour per person.
Hi, sir. How are you doing?
Sean is looking for the family plan.
You have gorgeous horses, though.
Yeah, they're.
Beautiful.
We're hoping to come see about a group discount if we all share a ride.
You mean all on one horse? No, we can't do that.
No, no, no. Not at the same time.
But, you know, maybe just for one horse.
One hour.
Is that going to be enough for you? That's really not a lot of riding.
I mean, I think it's fine.
Well, that's not something we normally do, but it is late and the horses are kind of
ready to go. I could probably do that, but it would be so for one horse.
For one hour, it'll be about ten minute ride by the time you figure it out and change
riders or whatever, it'd be about ten minute ride.
Okay. I have never split a trail ride on one horse between multiple people before.
That was a that was a first.
One, two, three. All right, we're off.
We'll be back in ten minutes.
You guys be ready.
You Joy, sweetie.
Have fun.
Horseback riding was definitely a very big hit.
Get that cowboy boot in there and follow me.
My horse riding experience.
It was. It was pretty fun.
I wish you could have gotten to ride on it a little longer, but I guess my dad just wanted
to get a good deal. And as long as he's happy for getting a good deal, I guess I'm
happy, too. Well, you guys.
Have a nice rest of your stay. Thank you very much.
Thank you. So much.
Even though we brought our own food, I did promise the girls a really great buffet.
The only problem with the buffets out here is while they are awesome, they can be really
expensive.
Las Vegas is famous for its buffet meals, which range in price anywhere from 7 to $70.
Hi. Hi. How are you?
Good, How are you? Yeah, I'm so much for the buffet.
It's 1299 per person.
Including drinks.
Per person.
Per person? Yes.
Okay. Is it possible for us to just share one?
No. That's no sharing for Buffet.
Okay.
So what can we do then?
Oh.
You can do to go.
You buying one to go box and you can share.
Can you show me the box?
Yeah, sure. See how big that is?
This is the box so you can fit it in.
And so whatever you like, we try to per box is 1299 per box.
We just picked out just like 1 or 2 things over there.
Can we buy them like individually.
If you like, just get three items, then I can go with the 599.
Okay, so if we each get one item in two egg rolls.
599.
Yes, I guess I can do that.
Okay.
Okay, great. Thanks.
I was not expecting any negotiations to go down at the buffet.
Okay, girls.
One item each. So choose wisely.
Buffet was pretty good.
I think we went to a nice Vegas buffet.
It might have been better, but it was okay.
Better than our snacks.
Okay.
Ready to check out?
Yeah. Okay.
Can we get some fortune cookies?
Okay.