Black Friday, the kickoff to the holiday shopping season, is best known for doorbuster deals and irresistible sales on gifts. Deals on hotels, airfare, tours and cruises may have little to do with gift-giving and more with tempting shoppers to indulge in their own wanderlust, but increasingly, travel bargains are part of the promotions around Thanksgiving, including Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Travel Tuesday and what is often called Cyber Week.

“Entire airline carriers and cruise lines will have broad sales,” said Julie Ramhold, a consumer analyst at DealNews.com, which compiles consumer deals. “The sales tend to be more generous at this time of year.”

Often, however, it’s unclear how many airline seats, hotel rooms and cruise cabins are actually on sale. Since deals can be fleeting, book as soon as you can. Additionally, the rules of budget travel apply: Many deals are in the off-season or require prepayment and are nonrefundable.

After reviewing hundreds of travel deals set to be offered around Thanksgiving — excluding airline deals, which tend to be last minute — some trends emerged, including the following eight.