You might think you’d find the best student deals around back to school. But this holiday season you’d be wrong. Amazon is offering a limited number of $25 flight tickets home for the holidays. Read on for details. And Amazon isn’t the only one offering student bargains. Retail giants Best Buy, Target and Walmart all have student deals intended to help you save money on groceries, tech, furnishings and other college essentials.
To take advantage of the deals, you’ll need to verify you’re a student, but that extra step is worth it if it means you get free grocery delivery, say, or a free subscription to a streaming service.
Here’s where to find the student deals giant retailers have this year in the run-up to the start of school. For more, here are our favorite student deals this year and our picks for best student laptops.
Amazon Prime Student budget-friendly $25 plane tickets for holiday travel
If you’re a college student and do any shopping on Amazon, it’s not hard to make a case for signing up for Prime Student. The first six months are free and then $69 a year for four years. (A regular Prime membership is $139 per year.) To join, you need to be a college student enrolled in at least one course at a college located in one of the 50 US states, Washington DC or Puerto Rico.
This holiday season, a Prime Student subscription could be even more valuable. Amazon said it is joining with StudentUniverse to offer several thousand $25 flights to and from home between mid-December and early January.Â
Amazon said it’s making available 1,000 tickets each day to Prime Student subscribers, starting at 6 at 12 a.m. PT on Dec. 6 and 7. (It already offered 1,000 on Dec. 5.) After Dec. 7 StudentUniverse said it will offer Prime Student members $25 off flights with a limited promotional code. Head to this StudentUniverse page at midnight PT to see if you can score a cheap flight. Be sure you’ve logged in with your Student Prime account. You can also sign up for a Student Prime…
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