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Posts on the Cheapest Destinations Blog about the travel industry and how aspects of it impact how much you pay for flights, hotels, rental cars, and vacation apartments. Advice on how to buck the system and find the best deals each time you travel internationally or in your home country.
For American travelers, those earning US dollars, or those tapping a greenbacks retirement account, there’s something wrong if you’re not planning your next international vacation right now. If you’re reading a travel blog I’m assuming you don’t hate traveling. So why else would you not take advantage of this golden opportunity? The cheapest countries have …
What is it going to cost you to visit the great wonders of the world? How much will it bust your budget to check that famous attraction off your list? Sometimes not much, sometimes days’ worth of travel costs. When you travel around the world on a budget, those backpacker travel estimates of $50 a …
Many times I post pictures of a budget hotel deal I found internationally in my travels, usually somewhere between $10 and $50 per night. A few people inevitably comment, “What?! How did you find a deal like that?” The truth is, I find deals like that more often than not. To many infrequent travelers, it’s …
When I was a young budget traveler backpacking around the world, I spent a lot of time sleeping on night trains and overnight buses. The rail sleepers were often a real pleasure, the night buses not so much, but in both cases they combined lodging and transportation in one, which saved a fair bit of …
There are some major, history-making kinds of changes going on in the USA that could easily spell the decline of an empire, a major loss of human rights, and the effective end to real democracy. Yet what most Americans seem to be complaining about most are high gas prices. With their assumption that cheap fossil …