What's The Deal?

The week's best travel bargains around the globe, by land, sea and air.

LAND

• Santa Barbara (Calif.) Conference & Visitors Bureau is celebrating its 50th anniversary by offering " Score With 54" specials at hotels, restaurants and activities. For example, book a Sunday and Monday night at the rack rate at any of several hotels, including the four-diamond Inn at Petersen Village, and get a third night for $19.54. Rates start at $220 at the Inn at Petersen Village, and two dinners for two are included. Info: 800-676-1266, www.santabarbaracelebrates.com.

• Couples Resorts in Negril and Ocho Rios, Jamaica, has two-for-the-price-of-one deals -- $250 per night per couple -- for stays of at least six nights between Aug. 21 and Sept. 30. Rates typically start at $500 a night per couple and include all food, beverages and taxes. Reserve by June 11. Info: 800-COUPLES, www.couples.com.

• Renault Eurodrive is offering free upgrades from the five-passenger Scenic to the seven-passenger Grand Scenic on leases throughout Europe. Rates start at $999, including taxes, for the minimum 17-day lease. The Grand Scenic usually rents for $1,199 for 17 days. Info: 800-221-1052, www.renaultusa.com.

SEA

• All Ways Travel in Bethesda is offering an 11-night cruise on Royal Caribbean's Legend of the Seas starting at $1,469 per person double. The cruise, which travels from Ensenada, Mexico, to Honolulu, departs Nov. 21. The deal includes airfare from BWI to San Diego, transfer to Ensenada, return flight from Honolulu and taxes. Priced separately, the cruise starts at $1,019, and airfare is $808. Info: 301-571-0400.

• A repositioning cruise on SeaDream Yacht Club's Sea Dream I from Malaga, Spain, to San Juan, Puerto Rico, this fall is less than half-price. The 11-night cruise on the 55-cabin yacht, departing Oct. 27, starts at $2,400 per person double; brochure rate starts at $5,900. Port charges are $176 more. Info: 305-631-6100, www.seadreamyachtclub.com.

• Lake Powell Resorts & Marinas in Utah/Arizona is providing free gas this summer on deluxe houseboat rentals. Rent a 53-foot Adventurer or a 54-foot Adventurer XL for at least five days and receive a $500 fuel credit; five-day rental is $4,777. Rent a 59-foot Discovery for five or more days and get $700 worth of free fuel; five-day rental starts at $5,592. Taxes are 6.75 percent extra. Book by June 30; complete trip by Aug. 15. Info: 800-528- 6154, www.lakepowell.com.

AIR

• Discount airline USA3000 will start service between BWI and Fort Myers, Fla., beginning Oct. 2 with fares of $59 each way. The round-trip fare, including taxes, is $138. Fares on other airlines start at $244. Info: 877-USA-3000, www.usa3000.com.

• US Airways has sale fares to the Caribbean. The fare from Reagan National or Dulles to Aruba, for example, is $540 round trip, including taxes. Fare on other airlines is $759. Purchase by June 4; travel by Aug. 28. Cheapest fares are for Monday-Thursday travel. Info: 800-622-1015, www.usairways.com.

• Discount airline Independence Air will start flying out of Dulles June 16 and will initially offer service to five cities, with one-way fares starting at $49 to Newark and Raleigh, N.C. The carrier will add service to 29 more cities by the end of summer, with fares starting at $39 each way to Charleston, W.Va., Norfolk and Pittsburgh. Find the lowest fares at www.flyi.com. United is matching most prices.

PACKAGES

• Can't make it to the Olympics? Instead, take mindbodytravel's "Mediterranean Culinary Excursion to Greece" tour. The Aug. 3-10 trip is being discounted by $800 to $1,849 per person double. It includes round-trip air from New York to Athens on Lufthansa, lodging at the three-star Glyfada Hotel outside Athens, meals, land transportation, a cooking demonstration by Chef Jim Botsacos of Molyvos Restaurant in Manhattan, gourmet picnic in an olive grove, wine tasting and other sightseeing excursions. Book before June 9 to qualify for discount. Info: 800-874-1996, www.mindbodytravel.com.

• If you can travel on short notice, Nordique Tours has a last-minute deal to Germany good for travel through June 15. The $649 per person double package includes airfare from Dulles, four nights' lodging in Frankfurt, Munich, Nuremberg or Stuttgart, and breakfasts. Taxes are an extra $135. Air alone for travel during the next two weeks starts at $1,150 round trip. Info: 800-995-7997, www.nordiquetours.com.

-- Carol Sottili