When traveling as a couple, it’s always great to have plenty of extra money. However, if you want to travel on a budget, it's smart to utilise some strategies that can stretch your hard earned cash. Make the most of your travel budget by applying these simple strategies:
1. Choose 3 or 4 travel destinations you both like. Look into pricing of each destination to determine which one offers the least expensive travel.
- Once you agree on a few destinations, investigate them online. Look for package deals and make some comparisons. Which place(s) offer the best pricing?
2. Plan to visit a travel destination during the off-season. Take into account that visiting a location when it’s not the tourist season will save you quite a bit of cash.
- Accommodations and many attractions cost less when you go during the off-season. Depending on the destination, even traveling to your preferred location is discounted in the off-season when the demand is less. For example, in the winter, airfare to Europe is about half the cost of summer fares – by hundreds of pounds per ticket!
- For many summer tourist destinations, the date they switch to off-season rates is in early September when the kids go back to school. Taking a trip with your partner the first few weeks in September will save you money and you can still enjoy the warm weather attractions. Plus, you won’t have to fight the crowds.
3. Save as a couple and individually before the trip. An important part of planning a trip is putting aside money in advance to pay for the trip. A way to pump up your savings and make it fun is for each of you to formulate not only your joint savings plan, but also your own plans to save a few extra pounds for the trip. Have a contest to see who can save more!
- Cut out those expensive coffee beverages, lunches out at work and other less-necessary expenditures in your daily lives to bank those dollars for your trip.
4. Book a hotel that offers free breakfast. Nothing will start off a day of exploration on your holiday like two free meals. Many hotels offer continental breakfasts to lure in travelers. While you’re at it, grab a few of those granola bars and a few pieces of fresh fruit for your purse or car, just in case you get hungry before or after lunch.
- Holidays take a lot of energy and can work up quite an appetite. Free snacks will serve to stretch your budget even further.
5. Split dinners in restaurants. If you both like some of the same foods, consider ordering an entrée and dividing it between the two of you. Even if you each order soup or a salad, your dinner bill will still be less expensive.
- Some restaurants will charge £2.00 or £3.00 for a plate fee when you let them know you plan to split the entrée. However, getting into the habit of sharing dinners when you travel shows you have real budget-savvy.
6. Carry re-usable individual water containers. When you arrive at the hotel, find the nearest grocery store or supermarket nearby where you can buy inexpensive bottled water by the gallon. Take the water to your hotel room and fill your individual containers in the evening.
- If your hotel room has a refrigerator, chill your water overnight. The next morning before you head off to see the sites, grab your bottles of water. Since bottled water, when purchased separately, can cost up to £4.00+ per bottle, you can save £20 or more per day between the two of you by furnishing your own water this way.
OUR BEST HINTS AND TIPS TO SAVE MONEY:
Book Cheap Overseas Holidays:
We tend to use lastminute.com, they constantly return some of the cheapest holidays abroad and they don't have to be made at the last minute either!
Book Cheap UK Holidays:
We use TravelSupermarket for UK breaks for some really cheap deals for hotels and B&B's around the country.
Travel insurance:
Holiday Extras can be difficult to beat, you can also book your airport parking from them too. Never leave home without your travel insurance to protect yourself from illness, injury, theft, and cancellations.
If you are looking for other areas to save money when booking holidays check out our Discounts and Deals page. We list all the ones we use to save money when we travel – and that will save you time and money too!
Book Cheap Overseas Holidays:
We tend to use lastminute.com, they constantly return some of the cheapest holidays abroad and they don't have to be made at the last minute either!
Book Cheap UK Holidays:
We use TravelSupermarket for UK breaks for some really cheap deals for hotels and B&B's around the country.
Travel insurance:
Holiday Extras can be difficult to beat, you can also book your airport parking from them too. Never leave home without your travel insurance to protect yourself from illness, injury, theft, and cancellations.
If you are looking for other areas to save money when booking holidays check out our Discounts and Deals page. We list all the ones we use to save money when we travel – and that will save you time and money too!
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