How to Lie and Swindle Your Way into a Better Trip

Get a Better Room Rate

The next time you're booking a reservation with a hotel, resort, or car-rental agency and the agent asks if you have a corporate rate or discount, immediately answer yes, then provide the name of a Fortune 500 company that you "work for." If you actually do work for a company that entitles you to a corporate discount, name a higher-profile corporation and see if that gets you a sweeter deal.

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