Budget Travel Advice

Learn to Spend Less on Travel

A number of things can help you have a cheaper trip. Some of these things have been included into a comprehensive article on this page, hopefully it will be of great use to you.

Low cost airline travel and budget travel in general have gained more terrain over the years, especially since the year 2000. Yet, not only the flight tickets and hotel rooms can cost less, because if you are smart, then you can spare on things you might not have known would help you travel cheaper!

Useful Tips for Price Reduction

Avoid weekend and main daytime flights:

Airlines spend more on the mid-day and less on night or early morning flights. This is due to the high airport-related prices and also because there are more connections during that time (more airlines fly during day and they have more clients, so they can allow to ask more for a ticket). If you choose to fly in early morning or late at night, perhaps even at night, then you might spare big!

Smart packing:
 

Airlines' policies differ from each other, but the 20 kg luggage weight limit is most common. If you exceed that limit, you will have to pay. Slight increase of luggage weight may result in you spending over 100 $ to board the airplane.

Smart packing means less weight, of course, so make sure you take only what is necessary and plus a few possibly handy items. If you need to take heavy technical items, such as a laptop, better take a small netbook, in any case opt for the smaller variant of everything.

Check the prices at the end of travel seasons:

Usually at the end of summer, early autumn, they can drop significantly. If you travel to Hawaii in September, it will be cheaper than in July. The same applies for most summer destinations.