Hot Budget Travel Tips

Hot Budget Travel Tips
Copyright © 2008 Kaye Dennan

There is absolutely no reason why you should not have a fantastic holiday if you are travelling on a budget. Budget travel can still take you to exotic destinations if that is where you wish to go.

Budget travel is more about information and planning than it is about just 'cheap travel'. Budget travel is about compromising certain parts of your travel to get a better deal, about selecting one particular offer over another, depending what the package is and similar decisions like this.

You can only make these decisions if you thoroughly research your destinations. As we all know it is a great big, big world out there and to catch the tourist, operators have to be inventive in their promotions and at certain times will lower costs or add in extras to get the customers. These are the little things that can make a difference when travelling on a budget.

Your research will help you find these facts and figures and when you have the answers you are searching for, then you can go ahead and book.

By researching everything in the area you are planning to go to, you can establish if there are any special events on at the time you are arriving, which of course will elevate the cost of accommodation and blow out any idea of budget travel. Such seasonal change can catch you unawares and cost you a lot of extra money if you are not pre-warned.

Be careful when booking ahead and read the fine print on anything that you are paying. It is often in the fine print that there are extra charges. Examples that come to mind are extra costs for parking the car, extra costs for room cleaning, and other similar services that may have always been taken for granted in the past or on previous trips.

In certain places like Aspen for example, you are going there for the snow and the fun, so you could probably have just as much fun living in cheaper accommodation, whereas if you were going to a place like Ibiza you may wish to be able to have a room with a view and cut back on other costs.

It is all relative as what sort of holiday you are looking for, and what your travel budget is at the time.

Of course, with any travel overseas always check before you book what documents, visas, duties, taxes, entry fees, etc you may need to visit certain countries. These are all costs that you need to have allowed for when making decisions.

When you are doing your research always check to see that the information you are gathering is current. This is most important because if it is a couple of years old, anything could have changed in the meantime.

Budget travel can be just as much fun for you as for someone with an open check book. In fact you will probably meet more locals and have a greater experience by mixing with them. Locals make a trip. Geographical beauty is one thing, but leaning about the locals is another. With budget travel you can experience both.

Kaye Dennan has shared tips from the 101 Tips for Travelling on a Budget ebook listed on her international lifestyle website http://www.ebooksnowonline.com Exciting travel is still possible when you know where to go. Check us out at ebooksnowonline.com/travel/budget/