Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Budget Travel - The Travel Basics

The Basics of Budget Travel

Travelling can be awfully expensive if you book at the wrong timing or just failed to look at alternative budget travel options that are equally as good. It doesn't matter if you are travelling alone or with your whole family. Keeping costs low will allow you to spend more on souvenir shopping or even fit more budget travels in a year.

The first step in budget travel is to list what you will not compromise on and what you can cut back. Are you willing to cut back on accomodation by opting for budget accomodation? Do you prefer to spend more on sightseeing, meals or shopping? You have to find the right balance of which is important to you before you can plan your budget travel.

Secondly, you will need to create your travel budget. List down how much you are willing to spend on your budget travel for - airfare, transportation/rental, sightseeing, hotel, food, shopping and others. When you know which part of the travel should cost, you can now begin planning your cheap travels. To get a rough estimate on the costs involved, you should obtain information from various websites and travel books. Travel books from Lonely Planet, DK Publishing, Discovery, are amongst the more popular books with travellers.

If you will be visiting a location with many theme parks or museums, be on the lookout for the best admission/package deals. There should be plenty of packaged admission deals that cater to many tourists. Picking the right packages is important to make your budget travel a success. To begin this part of your budget travel, be sure to get onto the Internet to locate the attraction's website. The attraction's website will feature specials such as special discounts on particular days, 2-for-1 deals, free admission for children below 6 years old, senior citizen discounts, and many more.

The main thing to remember in planning a budget travel is to look for DISCOUNTS, DISCOUNTS & DISCOUNTS! After all, why pay the full price when you can get it at a discounted rate. All you need to do is do a little research and you will be on your way to enjoying the budget travel that you planned.

You can discover more secrets to booking hotels and airfare at 50% or more off what the normal traveler pays. You can learn how to travel smart, avoid getting scammed, and what to do when things go wrong. Here is one of the best books that I have come across on budget travel. The secrets in this book will teach you, in simple terms, how to be a very savvy traveler. Click here for more details.

Here's wishing you success in your budget travel.

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
- Robert Louis Stevenson: Travels with a donkey (1879)

Cheers to good travels,
Budget Travel

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