Wednesday, May 12, 2010

How can you reduce your travel cost?

Budget travel tips


You have plans to go on vacation. There is a cool vacation rental that you have in mind. It may fall a little outside of your budget but that is fine. You feel if you can properly budget other components in your vacation you should be able to make the entire vacation more affordable. Is this going to be as easy as it sounds? Well, it might not always be easy but it can be done provided you follow a number of simple deliberative steps. Any vacation can be brought in under budget or at least as close to such a goal as possible.

Here are a few steps:

1. Cut back on food costs - you could set a certain number of meals per week that will be made at your rental property and a certain number of meals that will be purchased at less expensive restaurants. Some may find this surprising but the amount of money you can save by planning out your meals can prove to be significant.


2. Renting a vehicle - a vehicle when you could get a decent rental for a much lower fee

Or  Select local transportation like bus or train.


3. Select a budget hotel /home stay before journey through internet.


4. Pre planed your destinations and traveling routs.


5. Plan your budget for stays, food and traveling expenses before your journey


6. Drink more water than food.


7. Keep a guide / book about the places, which you would like to travel in your journey


8. Select all-inclusive packages from a travel /tour operator- take the burden of planning off you. You know exactly what your vacation will cost when you buy it- although you do need to check the small print, because some holidays include more than others. The Curtain Bluff resort in Fiji is truly all inclusive. The price covers all food and drink, activities


Nothing provides the proper insight in how to budget a vacation that looking back on your previous vacations and noting what went wrong and what didn’t. This will better allow you to plan the process to great success. And that is what you want in the end is it not?


Of course, there are many other ways to make sure you can bring in your rental property vacation under budget. The tips presented herein can work a long way in this regard.