How To Attend a Destination Wedding (On the Cheap!) Beneath the often ornate envelope is your invitation to spend upwards of a few thousand dollars to attend a friend’s destination wedding. Most of us experience that pocketbook dread when the destination...
6 Fall Vacations You Can *Actually* Afford to Take Have you heard of the off-season? It's probably the single most important season to a budgeting traveler. It's that sweet spot between September and February when tourist season is over and iconic cities are...
4 Crazy Stories of People Flying for Free (And What You Can Learn From Them) Flying for free is a dream for most people, but for some lucky folks, it’s a reality. We’ve all heard those stories of people playing the game: opening and cancelling credit card accounts, scouring the...
Most Affordable Places to Visit Each Month of the Year Need a break that doesn't bloat your budget? Have a look at our list of most affordable places to fly to each month of the year. From January to December, we've got your travel destinations covered. A few of...
Start Packing: Independence Day Travel A Whopping 10% Lower Than Last Year! Thanks to airline competition, lower fuel prices and airline capacity growth, we enter the summer of 2016 with lower airfares than we've seen in awhile - score! It's only right to start celebrating these...
Cheap Vegas Stays: 5 Affordable Hotels in Sin City Las Vegas has plenty of reasons to visit. Sure, there’s the whole lure of legalized gambling but there’s plenty of other stuff worth the trip: world-class restaurants, must-see concerts and live shows,...
How to Travel Full Time for Cheap: Part 2 – While You’re on The Road Traveling full time sounds very much like a fantasy. It's almost hard to think you can always find cheap flight deals, hitch rides or score free or affordable places to stay. Seems too good to be true, right?...
How To Travel Full-Time for Cheap: Part 1- Before You Go Okay, so we all bemoan the lack of cheap flight deals to our dream destinations, the dearth of vacation days, and full-time schedules that cause us to travel less frequently than we would like. It's easy to...
How to See the World’s Most Expensive City for Just $50 a Day The tiny Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore has just been named the world’s most expensive city in a new report. Ouch? Definitely not! It might be costly to live there, but for out-of-towners, Singapore...
How to Recreate Kate Middleton’s Royal Ski Holiday on a Budget When everyone’s favorite British royal family released photos of a recent ski holiday with their children in the French Alps, the world was abuzz. As their first documented holiday as a family — and the...
7 of the Best Budget Trips in 2016 Want the best bang for your buck while seeing as much of the world as possible? Or maybe you just want to sit on the beach and watch the tide roll in – and pay as little for the privilege as possible?...
Here’s How to Make Thanksgiving Travel Super Easy Thanksgiving is coming, and we're super excited about it. What could be better than a lovely Thursday where we feast, watch football, feast again, and then nap—all while surrounded by family and friends? A...
How to Choose the Most Cost Effective Vacation Spot—Without Sacrificing a Thing Folks, in just a few weeks, I'll be on a plane, flying to Paris to study abroad for a semester. I'm obviously super excited—but why should you care about my travel plans? Because, as a college student on a...
Go Granola! How To Have a Hippie Time in Colorado’s Bohemian Boulder For decades, Boulder has been a haven for hippie culture. If you’re in this city, being outdoorsy, liberal, and concerned about the environment is basically mandatory. Nestled in the foothills of the Front...