KSL investigative producer Sloan Schrage and I searched for travel deals on two separate computers using the same searches, same websites but with one key difference.
I am not using a VPN on my computer, so the internet knows my computer is in Salt Lake City as I browse around for accommodations. Sloan, on the other hand, can use a VPN to tell the internet that he's nearly anywhere in the world. By doing so, a few things are immediately noticeable. For example: the default language is no longer American English, and the default currency switches to the country where the server is located.
"From our own personal experiences, we noticed that obviously, with a change in location, a lot of times you get a different price," Gerald Kasulis said about this inflation-busting life hack. "American travelers when they are traveling abroad, often they overpay for their holidays compared to the people booking the same holiday from different locations outside the United States," he said.