Share your top 10 creative and affordable vacation ideas and get a $30 gift card!

Last year's buzz word was "staycation," when everyone was staying home and cutting back on spending instead of traveling. But we know our community of TwitterMoms has some great ideas on how to plan an affordable vacation without emptying your bank account. Vacation season is upon us and TwitterMoms and Toyota Sienna have come together to bring you a blogging program asking you to write about "Your Top 10 Creative and Affordable Vacation Ideas." Do you find awesome one-day flight and hotel deals on Twitter? Do you travel Tuesdays - Thursdays to save money on your hotel stay and airfare? Do you plan car trips instead of flying? Tell us about your top ten tips and tricks for saving money on a vacation.

How it works:

Create a post on your blog about "Your Top 10 Creative and Affordable Vacation Ideas." Post the campaign widget inside your blog post. Then, follow the rest of the requirements below. The first 50 qualified submissions will receive a $30 gift card.

Your posts will be collected and featured on http://travel.twittermoms.com, and distributed across the web for all to see. The blogging program starts on May 11, 2010 and the submission window closes at 11:59pm PST on June 9, 2010. We will contact the people whose submissions have been selected on or about June 14, 2010. Please review terms and conditions here.

Prizes:

The first 50 qualified participants will get a $30 gift card!

Requirements:

To participate, we ask that you:

1. Create an original blog post on your blog sharing "Your Top 10 Creative and Affordable Vacation Ideas."

2. Include at least one obvious link back to this discussion page (http://www.twittermoms.com/forum/topics/share-your-top-10-creative-and) in your post, so your readers can learn more, and include it in your disclosure message regarding what prompted your post.

Participants must include the following disclaimer as a footnote of their post:

“I wrote this blog post while participating in the Toyota Sienna and TwitterMoms blogging program for a chance to get a $30 gift card. For more information on how you can participate, click here.” (include this link: http://www.twittermoms.com/forum/topics/share-your-top-10-creative-and)

3. Install the campaign widget in the side bar of your blog

Get widget here

4. Log on to your Twitter account, www.twitter.com, and tweet a link to your blog posting and include the hashtag #AffordableVacations.

5. Return to www.TwitterMoms.com and post a comment on this discussion page in the comments section below, including an active link to your qualifying blog post and a link to your Twitter tweet. (You can click on the date/time link below your tweet to get the direct link to your tweet.)

Eligibility:

No purchase required to participate. You must be a legal resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia, have a personal blog and be a registered user of the www.twittermoms.com and www.twitter.com websites to participate and at least 18 years of age or older at time of submission. See Terms and Conditions.

Tags: #affordablevacations, blogging, contest, sienna, toyota, vacation