Zipcar Promotion

For those of you without a car, Zipcar will save the day. Just before the holidays we bought a used Toyota (more on this soon) so we no longer have a Zipcar membership but boy, was it handy when we needed it. For more about Zipcars, read this old post. When you're ready, sign up for Gilt City via this referral link which will give you $15 off your first purchase, then buy this voucher which basically waives the application & annual membership fees ($85). Trust me, this is an excellent deal (better than any promo/referral codes you'll find out there) and I would get right on it before the promotion ends!

FREE rides to/from campus on the BruinBus

From Monday through Friday, UCLA offers three free BruinBus routes to/from/around the campus. I tried it for the first time yesterday and it was great, especially considering it's FREE. They come around every 8-10 minutes so if there's people waiting at the stop, chances are the bus is coming soon, and if there's no one, then the bus probably just left so you can either wait or start walking. You can get real-time information on when the next bus is coming (online or via text). You can also sign up for alerts. Here's how.

Check out the routes below or download the PDF map:

They also offer a bus to/from the University Village apartments, a grocery shuttle on Saturdays, a rooter bus to/from the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena for football games, and BruinCars which is a car-sharing rental service, similar to Zipcar (more on this later).