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Santa Fe Opera Free Insider Days

Free Santa Fe Opera talks and backstage tours this summer, and they even throw in the coffee and muffins!

Visit Santa Fe Opera on Saturday mornings until August 28, 2010, and be welcomed with a free coffee and muffins reception hosted by Opera Guild members, followed by a talk by an Opera staff member, then a backstage tour.

Yes it means an early start, but it’ll be worth it for the free Santa Fe Opera Insider Day experience, and of course the views from the beautiful building high on the hill are just gorgeous.

  • When: Saturday mornings till August 28, 2010
  • Time: 8:30 am coffee and muffins, 9 am talk then tour
  • Where: Meet at The Santa Fe Opera Box Office
  • Price: FREE!

If you’d rather go on a weekday, regular Santa Fe Opera backstage tours take place each day at 9 am Monday to Saturday until August 28, 2010, with a walk around the costume shop, scene shop and other areas to learn how they put this season’s opera productions together. These tours cost $5, children 17 and under go free. No advance booking needed, just turn up at the box office.

Santa Fe Opera directions: it’s located at Exit 168 of US Highway 84/285 seven miles north of Santa Fe.

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Free DiGiorno Pizza or $1 off Coupon

Get a free DiGiorno Pizza if you’re a Facebook member: sign in and insert a photo of your face into one of their cut-out pix, and then you get a coupon for a FREE Deep Dish pizza!

If you’re not on Facebook, you can still get a coupon for $1 off a DiGiorno Deep Dish Pizza.

Can’t see a time limit, but probably best not to wait too long!

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Half Price Wine at the Trading Post Cafe

Trading Post Cafe is offering a half price special on bottles of house wine. There’s no web link for the offer, but I saw it when I was in there this week eating a yummy grilled sandwich and deliciously cooling chilled zucchini soup. (Boy, do we need chilling right now!).

Here are the details on this 50% off wine special:

  • Half Price bottle of house red or white wine
  • Tuesday to Saturday from 11:30 am – 6 pm
  • Sunday 5 – 6 pm
  • Only valid when ordering food.

Hmm, as if we’d go into the Trading Post and NOT order food! It’s one of my favorite Taos restaurants.

Although this deal is currently running at date of posting, if you read this in a future time + space warp continuum, best contact the Trading Post Cafe to see if it’s still good!

Trading Post Cafe is located just up the hill from the Saint Francis de Assisi Church and Plaza in Ranchos de Taos. Or, less picturesquely, pass the Ranchos de Taos Post Office on your right as you enter Taos from the south, cross the lights straight ahead, it’s up the hill on the right. Note that the restaurant is closed on Mondays.

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$25 Ticket to Taste of Santa Fe with Wine & Food Samples

Groupon hits the jackpot again with this $25 ticket to Taste of Santa Fe on July 17, 2010. But you must buy this deal before midnight, Sunday June 27.

Your Taste of Santa Fe ticket gives you:

  • Admission with 25 tastes from the 50-plus Santa Fe restaurants at the event
  • Two glasses of wine
  • Free admission to the SITE Santa Fe art museum on the same day

This package is worth $45. Regular admission at $25 a ticket only gives you 12 tastes and no wine!

To get the limited time offer, buy your $25 Ticket to Taste of Santa Fe by midnight Sunday June 27, 2010.

Taste of Santa Fe is the foodie annual fundraiser for the New Mexico History Museum. Held at the Santa Fe Railyard Park the event offers family-friendly entertainment, food samples from Santa Fe restaurants, and a wine garden.

FYI: I’ve given you my Groupon.com referral link. If you buy your first Groupon, I’ll receive a small credit toward a future one. I tell you this because a) This site’s rules require it. and b) The FTC requires it. If you feel like sending a little love this way to support the Taos on the Cheap site, thank you for using the link!

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Albuquerque Airfares – Time Limited Sales June 2010

Whether you’re flying into Albuquerque to visit Taos, or you live here and want a getaway, these flight deals save $$$ – but they’re time limited, so book fast!

Southwest Airlines Sale from $39, closes tonight, June 24, 2010

Southwest Airlines celebrates 39 years in business with fares from $39 one way (plus some fees) on fall travel.

  • Book on Thursday June 24 (until 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time)
  • Travel between September 8 and November 17, 2010.
  • Fly any day in that fall period EXCEPT Fridays and Sundays.
  • Pay $39 for flights up to 450 miles
  • Pay $79 for flights between 451 – 1000 miles
  • Pay $119 for flights over 1001 miles

Frontier Airlines 4th of July Holiday Sale.

  • Book flights by July 1, 2010 (11:59 pm Eastern time)
  • Fly between July 2 and July 6, 2010
  • Frontier flies direct between Albuquerque and Denver, with lowest sale fares now showing as $66.20 or $67.70 one way, including taxes and fees
  • Connect in the Denver hub to other US cities on the Frontier route map 
  • Tickets quantities are limited

If you’re on Twitter, US Airways will start posting "giveaways and once-in-a-lifetime deals" to its Twitter followers from June 28. For the latest updates, follow them @USAirways.

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David Barsamian Talk

David Barsamian of Alternative Radio appears in Taos on Thursday June 24, 2010, to give a talk on Nepal and India, based on his own travel and research.

Tickets are $5 – an excellent deal to hear this popular presenter, journalist, and author, who founded the independent weekly Alternative Radio series, broadcast across the US and overseas. PLUS you’ll be supporting a good cause – the event is a benefit for Cultural Energy and their new radio and TV stations.

The David Barsamian talk is at 7 pm on Thursday June 24, at the Taos Community Auditorium.

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