Disney On Ice: Mickey & Minnie’s Magical Journey is coming soon to San Jose (October 20-24, 2010). If you’re harboring little Disney darlings, check out this ticket discount straight from HP Pavilion. Bay Area On The Cheap readers can get $5 off tickets for the best lower or upper level seats available at the time [...]
The next fee-free days at U.S. National Parks will be September 25, 2010, 2010. More than 100 national parks will waive entrance fees for certain Free Days this year, including several in the San Francisco Bay Area, like Muir Woods, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, and some of our California favs like Yosemite National [...]
If you own a Bank of America credit card, you can get in free to several San Francisco Bay Area museums the first weekend of every month. The B of A “Museums On Us” promo entitles one person per BofA card to free museum admission during the first full weekend of every month for 2010. [...]
Pre-Season Hockey: Phoenix Coyotes vs. San Jose Sharks Discount Tickets — Bay Area hockey fans love their Sharks. We adore them even more when we can get discount tickets to upcoming 2010-2011 games. Check back often for the latest SJ Sharks ticket deals, starting with a $20 off ticket discount for the September pre-season game: [...]
Want to get $4 tickets to see Toy Story 3, Inception, The Kids Are Alright, Eat Pray Love … ? If you like to go to the movies but don’t like how the ticket prices add up, this AMC Theaters $4 movie ticket deal will save you up to $8.50 per ticket (although a surcharge [...]
On Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day (September 25, 2010) you can get in FREE to hundreds of participating museums. San Francisco Bay Area museums on the list include Cal Academy, CJM, Chabot Space & Science Center, Hiller Aviation, Coyote Point Museum, and several others. Don’t just show up at a museum, though. You need to fill [...]
The 2010 Mountain View Art & Wine Festival (September 11-12, 2010) is a free event expected to draw more than 200,000 arts lovers to Silicon Valley’s epicenter. The multicultural celebration features the work of 600 professional artists and craft makers, live music, festival food and premium wines, microbrews and margaritas, an organic and green products [...]
The deals are growing at Restaurant.com with tons of new dining establishments added in Bay Area cities. So I thought I’d give you an extra heads up about this great opportunity to save. Dining out in Bay Area cities can take a bite out of your budget, but who wants to give it up? Not [...]
The 2010 Santa Clara Art & Wine Festival (September 18-19, 2010), at Santa Clara’s 52-acre Central Park, will feature local artists, fine wines and mico-brews, international foods, and live entertainment on three stages. More than 50,000 people are expected to attend this free annual event. Central Park offers a spectacular setting for the community festival, [...]
Mountain Winery’s spectacular view and fine acoustics make these concerts under the stars a good value, as long as you can get ticket discounts. But you might want to dinner ahead of time. And carpooling will save you $5 on parking (3 to a car qualifies). Check out the current line-up of concerts with discounts [...]
UPDATE 8/17/10: You can still get the Gilroy Gardens $15 off coupon good on any day through November 28 2010. You may have missed the other discounts, but check back for end of summer deals. Gilroy Gardens is a unique theme park featuring more than 40 family rides, attractions, and exhibits set among six colorful [...]
UPDATED 7/26/10: California’s Great America Theme Park, in Santa Clara, I just updated the current offers with several deals and discounts available on the California’s Great America website. Act like a kid again at California’s Great America Theme Park (aka Paramount’s Great America) and get in at a discount. I haven’t seen the new Planet [...]
Shakespeare in the Park performances will take place from July through September 2010, in three locations, starting in Pleasanton, continuing in Cupertino, and wrapping up in San Francisco in September. No tickets or reservations are required. No seating is provided, so arrive early for the best patch of grass and bring a blanket and picnic [...]
The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is open for Summers 2010. Admission is always free to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. It’s the fees for rides and food that can break you. Fortunately there are a few ways to save on the experience. (Also see the 2010 free Bands On The Beach, and the free Circus Brazil [...]
The Los Gatos Music In the Park summer series begins on Sunday, June 2 and runs through August 29. The events are produced by Los Gatos Music & Arts, who also produce Jazz on the Plazz on Wednesday nights from June 23 through August 25, 2010, at the Los Gatos Town Plaza. WHAT’S THE DEAL: [...]
The Los Gatos free Wednesday night summer music series, Jazz on the Plazz, will begin June 23, 2010 and run through August 25, 2010, and the line-up of jazz performers has been announced. The events are produced by Los Gatos Music & Arts, producers of Music In the Park, a series of concerts on Sunday [...]
Just a reminder: Bay Area On The Cheap includes separate category pages so you can find all the deals, discounts, free events, and special offers currently available in each part of the SF Bay. If you RSS us and haven’t been to the site lately, we’re now rich in content. As this website grows, we’ll [...]
The 2010 Santa Cruz Boardwalk “Bands On The Beach” free summer concert line-up sounds like fun. On Fridays, June 18, 2010 through September 3, 2010, two free shows are planned from 6:30pm and 8:30pm on the Beach Bandstand. (Also see this post for info on Santa Cruz Boardwalk coupons and discount.) July 2: NAKED EYES - ”Always [...]
Daily deal sites are springing up in San Francisco like spring daisies. Some are cropping up in the East Bay and San Jose, too. Starting with Groupon, LivingSocial, JuiceInTheCity, SpecialDeals, Groopswoop, SocialBuy, Liquor, Zozi, HomeRun, PlumDistrict, BuyWithMe, Mamapedia, and a bunch of others (with more coming soon), these websites offer a deal or two a [...]
Where else but in Silicon Valley would you find a museum devoted solely to tech innovation? San José’s Tech Museum of Innovation presents over 240 hands-on science and technology exhibits and themed galleries, including a new exhibit called the Virtual Test Zone, the world’s first virtual-world-to-real-world gallery. The hands-on, interactive exhibit was developed in the [...]
