Do your own planning
Travel agencies seem like a tempting place to visit: you save so much time and energy by letting someone else plan the trip for you. Despite the convenience, these travel-agency services can be quite expensive. Take charge and plan your trip on your own, and perhaps it'll help you save even for a second trip!
Use budget airlines
Does a plane ticket seem like a serious investment to you? Well, there's no need to feel too overwhelmed, because flying can actually be cheap. The internet is full of sites that offer discounts on various flights and all you need to do is monitor them from time to time. Who knows, maybe you can reach your dream-country for quite a low price?
Couchsurf
Sounds like fun? You bet it is! With couchsurfing you save the money you could have spent on the hotel room and find new friends all around the world. Sometimes couchsurfing hosts can even become your city-guides and a walking-cultural-encyclopedia!
Supermarket, sweet supermarket
When you come to the countries, famous for their cuisine, obviously you want to enter each and every restaurant, letting each seduce you with its amazing aromas. However, if you plan to spend every meal in a lovely tourist-cafe, then plan nothing more - you'll simply run out of money! Shopping at supermarkets is much cheaper and will provide you with a lot more supplies.
Hitchhike
How to get to your destination for free? Stand on the side of the road with a thumb-up and wait till someone with a big heart picks you up! Hitchhiking might take a little more time than traveling by bus or train, but it will certainly leave many more amazing memories. And cash in your pocket! However, you do have to use judgment when it comes to safety issues.
Travel off-season
When there's a big demand on something, it usually becomes more expensive: people will get it anyway, because they need it now or never. Removing your holidays to the time when everyone else is working may be useful, as it allows pay less for plane tickets, rooms, souvenirs and meet less tourists like yourself!
Travel light
Sometimes people pack too many unnecessary things in their trip, which they have to pay for additionally. How about making your luggage lighter and weigh it at home, so you know you didn't overdo the luggage-limit? Great, because it saves your money and your back!
Smart financial operations
We live in the world of credit cards, but this lifestyle can play a trick on you while traveling. Withdrawing money abroad costs a lot - the fees from bank can be cruelly enormous. So, you can either withdraw the money at home and carry it in cash or make less withdrawals by taking larger sums of money.
Save on insurance
If you are a globetrotter type, it means you won't be able to stay at one place for the whole year waiting for a single trip in the summer. If you travel throughout the year, taking the annual multi-trip travel insurance will save some of the precious money you can spend on cocktails and souvenirs!
Hotel with an "S" in the middle
Another budget-saving accommodation idea is staying in a hostel. It is slightly less chic and comfortable then a hotel, but much cheaper and more fun! It is a great opportunity to meet new friends and perhaps even a new fellow traveler!
To bus or not to bus?
A fundamental issue for every traveler is whether he or she chooses the speed or the money. If speed, it means one should take trains and get ready to say farewell to a big part of cash. If money, then bus travel is much more convenient as it sometimes can cost 3 times less, than train.
Search the free days
Some museums are more sensitive than the others, thinking about the poor wallets of some tourists. That's why they offer free visit days, which obviously can save you a pleasant sum of money. Just google the museum schedule and prices in advance and get the chance to enjoy the exhibitiobs for free!
Keep your friends close
Traveling in a company with the number of members multiple to 4 is a great traveling idea. It is convenient for sharing the expenses on car rent, gas cost and accomodation. Besides, you always know someone's got your back - and that feels so much better than being alone!
Go gadget
Giving tribute to an old habit, you might want to buy a paper guidebook. Obviously, that will be cheaper than hiring a guide. But what if you decide to visit many countries? Buying a guide for each of them might cost you a small fortune, while you can have all of them for free. Just search the guide-apps and launch them in your device!
