Pictures from Budget Travel Blog
I receive a lot of offers for discount travel deals. This is due in part to the fact that I’ve signed up with some of my favorite websites to receive special offers. It’s also due to the fact that I’ve taken advantage of special offers so the hotels and airlines I’ve done so with are [...]
I understand that not everyone is into budget travel. In fact, although I definitely love to travel frugally, I am not necessarily into the kind of extreme frugal travel that others are into. So I can respect people who would choose to pay more for their hotels or flights than I would because I realize [...]
Last month I wrote a post here on the blog about the hotel safety rules that I don’t always follow. However, I didn’t mean to imply that we should be neglectful when it comes to staying at hotels. We do need to make sure that we make smart safety decisions when we’re on vacation. This [...]
I tend to be fairly adventurous. However, I have gotten more cautious with age. Whereas I used to stay recklessly at any hotel that I came across in my travels, I now choose my hotels in advance so that I stay at places that seem safe. Still, there are some hotel safety and health rules [...]
I love it when I get to upgrade to a nice hotel room at a low cost. However, nice rooms come with their drawbacks. One of my pet peeves when it comes to nice hotel rooms is that they often come with mini bars. There are two reasons that I don’t like this:
I’m tempted to [...]
These days we all have so many options other than staying at a hotel when we travel. We can choose from a range of different alternatives including camping out, staying at a hostel, doing a house swap, renting a short-term apartment or taking a cruise. I do think that these things have their place. These [...]
After I wrote my recent post about ghost towns, I started thinking a little bit about ghosts. There are a lot of places in the country that are supposed to be haunted. There are also a lot of people who choose to visit these haunted locations. In fact, a lot of people like to stay [...]
Last month I wrote a post about 5 super-cool hotel types that I would like to try staying at some day. (For example, I’d love to find an affordable underwater hotel to stay at for a night!) However I am not one of those adventurous people who wants to try staying at all of the [...]
I’m still working on my list of travel goals and aspirations for 2010. I think I’ve decided that I also want to try to stay in a really unusual hotel. I’m not sure how to do this in an affordable way since niche hotels are usually pricy. I’m going to look into it though because [...]