Travel – Save your possesions and your life

Cheap Travel – Safe Travel

When traveling abroad you can take advantage of all the discounts and then lose everything you have if you get robbed. So one of the ways to prevent being a victim of robbery or assault while you are traveling is to not look like a tourist. How does one do this? Mobil Communications recently surveyed its phone subscribers and came up with these suggestions. Here they are:

Ditch the white athletic shoes: White athletic shoes scream “Look at me! I’m an American tourist!”

Ditch the fanny pack: A Mobal survey participant says “I’ve never seen a non-American wearing a fanny pack.”

How To Travel Cheap

Travel For Cheap

As a columnist in our local paper so aptly put “Needing a vacation is not the same as being able to afford one.” So how do you make it affordable. She always has really good tips so here are some of her suggestions with  many cheap travel sites included:

Cheap air travel -Check low-fare airfare sites on a regular basis – Try www.airfarewatchdog.com, www.insideflyer.com, www.seatguru.com.

Be flexible with travel dates if you want to travel cheap so you can take advantage of lower prices for leaving midweek and returning on a Monday or Tuesday.

International Travel Tips Re: Sinking Dollar

Hey Cheapskaters, summer is coming and if you are thinking about international travel here are  some tips to make your dollar go further. The dollar has been falling against most of the world’s currencies which means it is going to cost you more to travel in most other countries. I read in our paper even India is avoiding dealing in dollars. They are requiring tourists to pay entrance fees to monuments in the local currency instead of dollars. So here are some tips from our local travel section: