We all love travelling, don’t we? But what to do when you are tight on your pockets? Should you compromise on your travel? No, Never! Here, we are here to help you with few tried and tested recommendations on how to travel when you are on a budget so that you don’t have to compromise on your travel and can continue exploring.
- Plan it well in advance:
Planning the trip in well advance will always work in your favour especially if you are on a budget. Travelling impromptu is costlier as compared to pre booked travel, for its obvious reasons of expensive last-minute flight costs. You need not make an hour by hour itinerary of your travel but you sure can plan the stay and rest of the aspects in advance in order to cut down on expense and last moment hassle.
- Book in advance:
Make sure all the bookings from your travel to stay to in city travel everything is pre booked. At least like 3 months prior to your travel. There can be major cost cut if you do so.
- Travel cost.
If you are on a budget prefer travelling via public transport like trains or buses during your local commute with thin the destined city or location.
For short distances prefer walking and exploring the city on your feet with give you insight perspective of the city with also helping you in cost cut. If you have enough time during travel. Prefer train over flight within the country to travel from one state to another. It will sure increase the time take to travel but with help you with your goal of budget travelling.
Opt for a Tuesday flight as it costs cheaper. If you choose to fly via flight choose economy as compared to business class.
- Change in Luxurious hotel rooms for hostel dorms:
Naturally, sharing a room separates the prices, and shared bunk rooms provide the ability to encounter individuals who might be willing to experiment with you. Websites like Airbnb and Couchsurfing, where you literally book a spare space in the house or apartment of a nearby user, are other excellent alternatives. It will slash the price by half and send you an immersive snapshot of real city life.
You can also contact a friend or a relative or someone you know in your destination to reach out for help for accommodation.
- Off season travel:
Off season travel is basically travelling to the place when there is lesser tourist than usual at the point of time. Like, Goa is fully packed with tourist from November to March. So off season travel means travelling between march to November, since there is lesser tourist at that time your stay and travel (which comprises of most of your cost of travel) will be much reduced.
- Pack well:
Make sure you pack everything you are going to need well. You can also pack non perishable home cooked food in order to reduce your travel cost. Carry extra clothes in case of emergency. And also make sure you have warm hoodie, umbrella in case of weather change. Pack well so that you don’t have to shop unnecessary.
- Eat local:
Choose a local food stall or lunch centres over an over priced cafes and restaurants. Packing your own food also helps reduce cost. And hostels also provide space to cook for yourself. Eating local not only helps you with cost cutting but also will help you explore the local authentic cuisine with is also a win-win situation for an explorer.
- Earn while you travel:
Working vacations are a great way to make it easy to spend while living your dream travel life. Like in case you know surfing or swimming or scuba diving while you are on your vacation you can teach it as a freelancer which will let you have fun while doing the activity you love and also helping you make some cash out of it. There are practically infinite options.