5 Tips for Saving Money on Travel

Vacation is one of the major yearly goals for any normal family or for that matter even singles – executives, students, etc. You slog round the year to award yourself or your family this incentive. Your wife bears with your late night office hours, children do without your attending their parent teacher meetings so that you can devote substantial amount of your day’s time to work.

Besides you yourself too need a break from the madding crowd and seek solace and enjoyment exploring exotic places and nature. But with soaring traveling expenses and economy doing summersault every now and then, it becomes imperative that you don’t end up spending every bit of your hard earned cash and return home lamenting.

Here are our best Tips For Saving Money On Travel.

1) Avoid Peak Season:

If you don’t want to end up spending almost double fare in almost everything like the airfare and hotel fare, try to avoid the peak travel season such as summer, Christmas and New Year. This way you not only avoid unnecessary rush but most of the hotels have a different set of tariff rates for different seasons and this can be easily checked out on net or over phone. The airlines offer discounted rates throughout the year and it is for you to keep up with the airline websites regarding such offers. After all, why would you like to spend extra money for the same facility just because of the vacation season?

2) Eat Shrewdly:

While traveling, don’t add on the extra luxury of eating at expensive places. Make use of the accompanying morning tea that your hotel charges might include. You can bring in breads and biscuits to make a complete breakfast out of it. Try to not to venture to typical tourist eating places and fancy restaurants,  they have a different set of price lists for outsiders and know that only tourists would come to such places. So try to eat where the locals eat, you will get better food experience and best prices that way.

3) Shopping – a Very Big No, No:

If you or your wife has the habit of shopping impulsively, this is an unforeseen expenditure that might show up in your accounts when you later take stock of things. You can buy a thing or two as souvenirs and that too after good bargaining.

4) Traveling Around Costs:

Now that you’ve arrived your destination by plane, train or car and got yourself a decent accommodation at a fine lodging place, the next big question is how you are going to get around? There are cabs, but they’re often expensive, and in some places, unsafe. So what to do? My suggestion would be to use Public Transit and mostly it is appropriate if you are in bigger metropolises like New York, Delhi, London, and Paris. Get a map of all the routes, purchase a daily or weekly pass, and be on your way.

5) That’s What Friends Are For:

You do social networking and come to know a whole lot of people well, take advantage of those contacts you may have at your destination. Also, friends and family would be glad to have you at their places once in a while.