Tips for travel on a budget
 

There goes this year's holiday, We've worked damned hard - we deserve a break, so do you have any idea about how to save money for travel?

I found an aritcle about Tips for travel on a budget...

http://www.topnewsblog.info/tblog_10221.htm

Looks useful...

If you just wanting a cheap transport idea, why not find out about the car companies who want a car taking to somewhere, or people who have re-located will pay for someone to drive the car. Only trouble is you would have to find someone who wanted their car taking to where you live.

That just looks like an ad for Travelocity.

Maybe no Suze...I have a friend who is retired and he does that car return thing all the time. He flies to Toronto and drives the car to Winnipeg that sort of thing. It gives him some pocket money and he enjoys it.

The most significant thing we do to save on travel is using our miles credit card for everything. I mean everything. If I buy an .89 cent pack of gum, I use the credit card. Electric bills, medical bills, grocery bills, gasoline, and all of our business expenses. Basically anything that CAN be paid by credit card does. People ask me "aren't you embarassed using your credit card for a pack of gum". Nope, I just keep thinking of those free tickets. Even if we have the cash, we use the credit card to get the miles. At the end of the year we always have a couple free tickets. We have a lot more expenses than most people so I realize that it doesn't work for everyone, but even if you only get enough miles for 1 free ticket that's still a savings.

The only trick is that because miles cards have horrible interest rates, upwards of 15-20%, so they HAVE to be paid off every month, or it's pointless, you'd pay more in interest than you would for the tickets.

Is the question "how to save money for travel" as in ahead of time, while you are at home?

Or how to save money WHILE you are traveling?

Two different questions ;-)

>>so do you have any idea about how to save money for travel?<<

To me it sounds like they are asking how to save for travel, to go on travel rather than during travel.

Well then, it doesn't matter WHAT you are saving money for, the tips are all the same.

Make more &/or spend less!
:-)

Do the home work. Travel to places that are more reasonably prices then others. Avoid travel to states and countries that require big bucks to stay, eat and shop.

Go to local markets for your food. you can make sandwiches buy fruit and other healthy inexpensive food items and take back to the hotel.

Bring power bars, raisins and nuts for snacks.

Search web-sites for the best buy on hotel/motels. Tripadvisor.com is a great site for that kind of info and readers share their experiences in those places as well as day trips out and tour guides almost anything question you may have.

Using the included link as a guideline, I'm guessing the question is how to reduce the cost of the major expenses for travel - i.e., how to pay less for flights and hotel rooms, etc.

For me, airfare is the toughest to figure out because it varies. As I have general ideas of where I want to visit several years before I make that trip, I casually watch airfares and see what a good fare tends to be. Then I set an amount as the "breaking point" which is the most I'd be willing to pay. When I start actually planning that trip (usually at least 8 months in advance), I spend a month or two watching fares to make sure they haven't increased or decreased horribly. If not, then the first time the fare drops below my breaking point, I purchase the tickets. Then I don't look at fares again.

For hotels, I stay in 2 and 3 star hotels instead of 4 and 5 stars. This gives me an inexpensive rate while keeping the ability to cancel and/or change my reservations. I will keep looking for a better hotel deal up until I leave for vacation since I can cancel with no penalty up to 48 hours before check in.

For car rentals, I figure out how much I'm willing to pay for a daily rate, then I check all the companies for a rate at or below. By reserving directly through the car rental company, I can cancel the reservation, so I keep looking for a better rate just like the hotels.