Tips for Lowering the Cost of Conference Attendance

Jill Hurst-Wahl on her Digitization 101 blog posts tips for being a budget-smart  conference attendee. http://goo.gl/MFZns
While her perspective as a US-based employee isn't quite the same as that of the typical retired, or self-employed, genealogy conference attendee much of her advice remains valuable.
Jill  suggests using sites like skyscanner to figure out when an airline ticket is possibly at its lowest price. However, as I found out to my cost on my last trip, the lowest cost fare involving round-about routing leaves you open to extra risk of flight disruptions, extra cost ans travel fatigue.