How to save money when traveling

In your travel plan, as long as you make careful calculations, you can save costs without affecting the quality of your travel.

Take advantage of the time difference

If you don’t want to spend too much money and want to play well, then you must first be good at using the time difference to save.

First, avoid the peak tourist season. Generally speaking, an attraction has off-season and peak season. When traveling in the off-season, not only is it easier to get a bus, but because there are fewer tourists, some hotels have discounts on accommodation, which can be as high as 50% or more. When it comes to food, hotels also have different discounts. Therefore, for this alone, travel in the off-season costs at least 30% less than in the peak season.

The second is to plan the time of travel and return, and adopt the method of purchasing tickets in advance or purchasing return tickets at the same time. Nowadays, some airlines have made provisions to enjoy discounts for booking tickets in advance in order to attract customers, and the longer the booking period, the greater the discount. At the same time, there are also special preferential policies for purchasing round-trip tickets. This is true for booking air tickets, and there are also discounts for booking train and bus tickets. If you book train tickets and buy them early, you can avoid the various handling fees for temporary ticket purchases.

Third, when traveling, you must carefully plan the places you want to visit and the time required, and try to fill up the dates, because one more day in a tourist area will cost you one more day.

Choose a hotel wisely to save money

When traveling, the quality of the hotel you stay in will affect the quality of travel and the cost of travel. So how can we live well and live cheaply?

First of all, before traveling, you can ask about the place you are going to, whether there are any acquaintances who recommend it or the guest houses and resident offices of enterprises and institutions where you can stay. If there are any, guest houses and offices with better conditions are preferred, because most guest houses and offices of enterprises and institutions enjoy many "benefits" of the unit, and are generally limited to receiving people related to the unit and staying in such guest houses. And in the office, the price is cheap and the security is good. Of course, when choosing these guest houses and offices, you should also decide based on their location. If it is very inconvenient to travel, you should not stay.

Secondly, if the guest houses and offices of enterprises and institutions are not suitable for you, you should set your sights on hotels. When choosing a hotel, try to avoid staying in hotels next to bus or train stations. You should choose some hotels with convenient transportation and in less prosperous areas, because these hotels are much cheaper than hotels next to train stations and bus stations, and hotels in these areas can also be discounted. Nowadays, there are many taxis in cities and it is very convenient. It doesn’t matter if you live farther away.

Being good at fun can also reduce expenses

When traveling, fun is the main purpose, and it is necessary to save money on fun. So, how to save money?

First of all, you should have a general understanding of the scenic spot you are traveling to, and figure out from it what the most distinctive places are in this scenic spot, where are the places that must be visited, and the distinctive places must be visited. . When going to visit these places, you should also filter out some scenic spots. There is no need to go to repetitively constructed landscapes, because these scenic spots are everywhere.

Secondly, when traveling, you should take some time to go shopping and see the local customs of scenic spots and cities. This kind of wandering does not require spending money on tickets, but it can create a good mood because it can increase your knowledge and cultivate your temperament.

Don’t waste money on shopping

In the traditional concept of tourism, there is a hobby of traveling and shopping. Some people often spend a small amount of money on “touring” during travel, but spend a lot of money on shopping. Go for a fortune. So how to avoid or spend less money?

First of all, try to buy as little as possible when traveling, because it is inconvenient to travel, and the prices in tourist areas are generally higher, so it is not cost-effective to buy things. At the same time, it is worth noting that remember not to buy expensive things. Because of the high mobility of customers in some tourist areas, they often use various methods to sell counterfeit goods when selling valuables. If you buy these valuables, once you come back and find that you have been deceived, you will be unable to argue with them because of the distance, and you will have to consider yourself unlucky.

Of course, it is necessary to buy some items when traveling to a place, firstly as gifts for relatives and friends, and secondly as souvenirs. So what should you buy? Generally, you just buy some locally produced items that are better priced than where you are. These items are cheap and unique.