Check out the Frugal Traveler column in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com) for some suggestions on ways to save on summer travel. It's a question and answer format, and my favourite question was about travelling to destinations that are often in the news for bad reasons--Cairo, Istanbul and Baghdad.
Lucas Peterson, the columnist, said that he found some great deals on hotels in the first two cities through http://www.hotels.com. Very good hotel rooms were going for $30 a night or less. I haven't been to Baghdad and would not go now (too dangerous,) but Cairo and Istanbul both have a lot to offer. And with such low prices, how can you resist? I've stayed at excellent hotels in both cities--the Mena House right next to the Pyramids in Cairo and the Pera Palas in Istanbul--the latter was the home of Kemal Ataturk for a time, and featured in Agatha Christie's book about the Orient Express. I don't think the Pera Palas is still a hotel, but the Mena House is.
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