Three cheap travel tips

Cheap travel means you'll go more often, go on longer tours, or just save some of your money for other things. Fortunately, this means low quality travel. If you find a way to get a cheaper air ticket, for example, you may fly at the same level as with the more expensive tickets.

Of course, sometimes you can save money by traveling in a different way, and it is also okay. Why pay the extra $ 40 for a hotel, if you like the idea of staying in a hostel with visitors from all over the world? Why rent a car in countries where good bus and train systems make cheaper and more interesting trips?

You can mainly cheap travel in two ways. First, you can find cheaper ways to get the same thing. Other, perhaps more powerful way is to change your expectations and plans to create a more interesting trip, which also is cheap. Tips, follow will help you do both.

1. See If you can book two flights cheaper than one.

My wife and I am thinking go to Ecuador this year (2007). Check for our approximate dates, I found that it would cost $ 950 each round trip from Colorado Springs or $ 1.900 total. Then checked in from Colorado Springs to Miami. It would be $ 215 round trip. From Miami to Guayaquil Ecuador costs $ 350 round trip. It makes it only $ 565 to Ecuador or $ 1,130 total-a savings of $ 770.

If you want to do this, you naturally find flights that have enough lag time them. you get probably e refund if you overlook the other flight because of a delay on the first. In our case, we have friends near Miami, so we just get arrange flights to be a day or two from each other and go visit. Even after the cost of renting a car in a few days we will still be hundreds of dollars ahead.

2. living in a new place for a while.

One way to do a less rushed, vacation is cheaper and in many ways more interesting, to stop going from hotel to hotel. Why not hire stay in a place, and even a condo or apartment? We did this for a couple of years back in Tucson, Arizona. It was nice to escape winter for a few months, and it was fun to explore and get to know a new city. Often you can save hundreds of dollars this way versus pay at night in hotel rooms.

3. Be an opportunist traveler.

This is the most valuable of these cheap travel tips. There are so many things to do out there and so many places to see, so why get stuck on just the ones you've already thought of? With a little luck you can find a more interesting place to go for half price. With a little shopping, you can find a bed and breakfast in whatever country you are visiting, and pay less for a more interesting experience.

First look for all the possible alternatives that are less expensive. This is not about something you don't want to do. But among these cheaper choice may be a perfect trip for you. Why not find out? You can start with live any of your friends in interesting places? Visit the friends is a great way to save on travel expenses and have a load for fun (with the right friends).

Here is a good example is an opportunist. We were in the mountain resort city of Banos, Ecuador, and asked about the cost of the taxi ride to some waterfall. It was $ 15. It was apparently a popular attraction with tourists. We kept that in mind, as we came around. Then we saw a chiva (an Open-sided bus with seating on the roof) go by the playback of music. We asked.

Chiva took us on a tour of the city (I Red on the tag), then up in the mountains for a view of the city from above. We watched then volcano Tungurahua erupt and spit out a little lava. They served us hot Rum drinks (included in the price), and there was fire-juggling world-class entertainers. Passengers had to push to get it started chiva for the trip back to the city. Costs of all this? $ 3 each. Cheap travel means not uninteresting travel.

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