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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.

For auto travel consult AAA’s fuelcostcalculater.com to get an estimated fuel cost for your trip based on the distance you are traveling and the make, model and year of your vehicle. Then you can locate cheap gas by ZIP code at GasBuddy.com

Go to the cheap places - You can actually get a pretty good idea of what you will spend on daily basis by going to www.gsa.gov and looking at per diem rates. If you are going overseas check with U.S. State Department’s Office of Allowances  at www.aoprals.state.gov. For instance, the rate for Washington D.C., between July 1 and Aug. 31 is $64.00 per day for meals and incidentals and $154.00 for hotel before taxes. While the rate for Buenos Aires, the so called Paris of South America has a per day for meals of $81.00 and a lodging rate of $182.00.



Search for discounts on hotel rates - Use www.orbitz.com, www.travelocity.com, www.expedia.com, www.hotwire.com and www.travelzoo.com as well as web sites of hotel chains.

Save on souveniers - Either promise yourself to only buy souveniers for the people on the trip OR buy souveniers and wait until the intended receipient has a birthday or it is a holiday. Someone did this for my daughter and she was thrilled to receive a gift from a foreign country.

Research events in the area you plan to visit - Newspapers in the areas you are planning to visit should maintain a web site listing events (both FREE and $). This will help you develop your entertainment budget.

Finally and I think this is best advice of the whole column, be flexible and spontaneous during your vacation. If everyone is too tired to do another walking tour - let them rest. There is nothing worse than coming back from vacation exhausted. That truly is a waste of money.

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