Travel: My top tips for traveling cheaper

Travel

1 Feb

Traveling can feel like it’s a luxury, but it doesn’t have to be such a chore, and you can enjoy traveling - even if it’s just a day trip, or over overnight stay at first.

1) Accommodation: We have gotten some good deals on Airbnb places. Just look at what’s available and sign up for the promotions and sales.

2) Food: We buy food from the supermarket and aim to eat out only a couple of times a week. Planning an evening meal helps avoid buying extra food and budgeting, as well as packing a lunch for the day trips. Staying at Airbnb makes this easier than staying in hotels where they don’t have kitchen facilities - if you eat out every day it the cost adds up! (You could easily be spending £100 a day, rather than less than £100 for the entire week’s worth of food).

3) Things to do: I mix up activities from free ones and paid attractions, trying to meet everyone's needs, so we all get something out of the trip. There are many beautiful free places to visit and enjoy with a picnic. I search places like Google, TripAdvisor, and people’s blogs for recommendations.

4)Money: You can save money and collect points when using the same hotel, airline, car rental, etc. The extra points allow for freebies, which all contribute to cheaper travel.

- You can also get deals through credit cards, banks, and such like - we have gotten some great stuff! (For example, we get £150 worth of free restaurant credit twice a year, in both the UK and USA, with having an Amex card; this also covers some insurance too, and gets us into the lounge at the airport, which provides free WiFi, drinks, and snacks!).

- Look out for deals on airlines too - we got buy one, get one free tickets on flights to America in 2023, so the kids flew for free! Also, if you fly via a country, sometimes that's cheaper; hence, we flew to Ireland, then to the USA, in 2022.

Finally, spend time planning and researching, and you can travel, even if it's in the UK - We have some stunning places here too!

I hope this list helps you. Love and light, Victoria Louise.