Budget Travel
10 Countries To Travel On The Cheap
By Dean Wickham
Travelling the world can be expensive, particularly in countries like Australia, the United States, the UK or Western Europe. Hotels, food and sightseeing can quickly add up and eat up your budget in no time. Although these places are expensive, there are many other countries that you can travel on very little money. Here are 10 countries to travel on the cheap.
1. Laos
Laos is a beautiful landlocked country in South-East Asia, bordered by Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and China. Rich in culture and natural beauty, Laos has a lot to offer the budget traveller. Guest houses are cheap and it’s quite easy to find one under $10 per night. Like most Asian countries, street food is aplenty and very cheap at around $1 per meal. Even restaurant meals will only cost a couple of dollars. It’s quite easy to travel Laos on $20-$30 per day.
2. Guatemala
There are many bargains to be had in Central America, but Guatemala is a lot cheaper than the more popular Panama and Costa Rica. Beautiful beaches, rainforest, mountains and ancient ruins are all on offer, and it can be travelled on the cheap. It’s easy to get a room under $20 per night and cheap eats are available as well at only a couple of dollars per meal. It’s possible to travel Guatemala on under $35 per day.
3. Greece
It’s possible to travel on the cheap in Europe. Greece is particularly cheap now due to the recession, and it’s a great option for budget travellers. Hostel rooms can be found for $10 per night, and street food is available, with delicious gyros costing only $2-$3. Even with a few restaurant meals you can easily travel Greece for under $40 per day.
4. India
India has always been a cheap country to travel, and with such a rich culture and so much to see and do, it makes an excellent budget travel destination. Rooms can range greatly in price depending on where you go and what comfort level you want, however cheap options are almost always available. Cheap food is also always available, and tastes amazing! It’s possible to travel India on $20-$35 per day.
5. Cambodia
Like Laos, Cambodia is another country full of culture and beauty, with a lot to see and do. Rooms can be found for as little as $2 per night, however a budget of $10 per night is reasonable. Street food in Cambodia is wonderful and costs under $1 per meal, while restaurant meals cost only a couple of dollars as well. Some people have been known to travel Cambodia on as little as $10 per day, but it’s more reasonable to budget $20-$30 per day and really enjoy yourself.
6. Romania
There are many budget options in Eastern Europe and Romania is a great choice. Full of history and interesting people and places, it doesn’t receive the attention that it deserves. If you stay in hostels and eat at cheap eateries, you can travel Romania on $30-$40 per day.
7.Bolivia
Bolivia is an excellent budget destination in South America. High up in the Andes, Bolivia offers a lot to see and do. You can get a room for under $15 per night, while food can be as low as $2 per meal, depending on where you eat. A good budget for Bolivia is around $35 per day.
8. Vietnam
Like other South East Asian countries, Vietnam is perfect for budget travellers and is full of great culture and natural beauty. Comfortable rooms cost around $10 per night and street food is all under $1 per meal. Restaurant meals only cost $1-$3 per meal. It’s possible to travel on under $15 per day in Vietnam, however a more comfortable budget would be around $20-$30 per day.
9. Honduras
Another Central American bargain is the lovely little country of Honduras. You can find rooms for under $15 per night, while cheap meals only cost a few dollars. It’s quite feasible to travel in Honduras on under $35 per day.
10. Nepal
Nepal is probably the cheapest country I have been to, and possible the most beautiful. It’s a very poor country and travel costs reflect that. Budget rooms and local meals only cost a few dollars. If you wanted to, it would be possible to travel in Nepal for under $10 per day, however it largely depends on what you want to do. If you take trekking tours etc, then your budget will increase a lot. On that note, you can still easily travel Nepal for under $30 per day.
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EuroCheapo.com Launches Improved Site Design and Travel Tools
New York, NY (PRWEB) January 16, 2007 -–
Over There Interactive, Inc. announced the launch of the redesigned EuroCheapo website, (http://www.EuroCheapo.com), including a sleek look and feel, new company logo, enhanced mapping integration, and more custom site applications tailored to the needs of budget travelers.
“This represents EuroCheapo’s most significant site overhaul to date and will provide great utility and benefit to our loyal users,” said Tom Meyers, founder and editor-in-chief of EuroCheapo. “This is the first step in a series of enhancements we’re rolling out as we continue to help budget travelers have the richest possible experience while traveling in Europe without breaking the bank.”
While developing the redesign, EuroCheapo incorporated user feedback for added travel planning functionality, such as:
Providing budget travelers a filtered search capability across all of EuroCheapo’s recommended budget accommodations
Adding EuroCheapo “Editor’s Favorites” to highlight hotels that are most cherished among the * EuroCheapo editorial team
Enabling travelers to view multiple hotel photos taken by EuroCheapo’s staff writers and correspondents
Sorting hotel, pension, and B&B listings by price, currency and neighborhood location
Integration of Google mapping features with
EuroCheapo’s editor’s reviews and detailed neighborhood city guides.
“We are always seeking ways to improve as we continue our mission of making our customers’ time in Europe memorable and affordable,” Meyers continued. “We feel this new launch is a significant step toward fulfilling that goal.”
About Over There Interactive, Inc.
Founded in 1999, Over There Interactive, Inc. is the parent company of EuroCheapo.com, EuropeanHostels.com, BookItCheap.com and other budget travel websites. Over There Interactive’s flagship property, EuroCheapo.com, is a free Internet guide to budget travel in Europe led by a team of travel experts whom show up unannounced at inexpensive hotels all over Europe, check out the rooms, and get a feel for the place. If they like it, they write a review and list the hotel on their site and provide full, up to date information, so that users can book a room immediately. EuroCheapo also provides users with detailed city guides written by their staff of experienced industry experts with detailed information on rail passes, budget airlines, bus networks and alternative accommodations to allow users to be well prepared and make the most of their travels. EuroCheapo has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and Budget Travel Magazine, among others.
The world is out there, and it’s less expensive than you think. For more information, please visit www.EuroCheapo.com
Media Contact:
Pete Meyers
Over There Interactive, Inc.
611 Broadway, Suite 407
New York, NY 10012
(212) 674-2612
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YooTravel Becoming Top Budget Travel Site In UK
London (PRWEB) August 25, 2009
YooTravel sorts through the information that they obtain on other sites such as Expedia, Travelzoo and others, and then allows visitors to take a look at the different information for comparison. This can allow anyone who is considering traveling a chance to find out which is the best travel site for them. YooTravel is not a service site but offers visitors a chance to get discount holiday voucher codes and recommendations for traveling.
“Those who live in the UK and are interested in traveling can use YooTravel as a way to discover the different discount codes and vouchers that are on the various discount travel sites,” said Jiemin Gu, CEO of YooTravel. Instead of having to go to various travel sites to figure out what type of discount they are offering, a traveller can go to our site and get all of the information right away.”
Many people today are seeking ways to travel on a budget. The current state of the economy worldwide is making it necessary for everyone to check their budgets before making any plans to travel anywhere. There are many budget travel websites online that offer discount vouchers and codes. It can be very time consuming for anyone to visit all of these sites and figure out which is the best deal for them when they are planning to travel anywhere.
“YooTravel provides three levels that meet different budget travel for users,” said Jiemin. “This includes a search engine, discount travel voucher codes and recommendations. Travellers can get all of the information that they need to make a good decision when it comes to budget travel. “
Those who are seeking a way to save money when they book their travel plans, no matter how big or small, can find all of the information that they need in order to get budget travel when they use YooTravel. This website compiles all of the budget information that is needed to make sure that those who want to travel can afford to do so. This informational website provides everything that a traveller needs in order to make an informed decision about travel.
For more information as to how using YooTravel can help you with travel plans, go to www.yootravel.com.
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Travelpost.Com Announces New ?Top Rated Hotels? Feature; Reveals Travelpost Members? Favorites
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (PRWEB) February 15, 2006
TravelPost.com, the premier source for personalized hotel ratings and travel advisory services, today revealed its first “Top Rated Hotels,” a new regular feature that will uncover which hotels are the highest rated by TravelPost.com members. In addition, TravelPost.com will share why the winning hotels were highly rated. The first “Top Rated Hotels” will spotlight the highest rated hotels in Las Vegas among women under 30 traveling for leisure on an average budget, but the city and reviewer demographics will change with each future announcement.
And the February winners in Las Vegas are the Bellagio, Mandalay Bay and Paris hotels. When rated by females under 30 on a leisure trip with an average budget, each hotel received a cumulative rating of nine-and-a-half out of 10. The Bellagio won out for its outstanding service and “pampering,” while the Mandalay Bay edged other hotels for its vast array of entertainment options. The Paris hotel was given high marks for its comfortable and relaxing atmosphere.
A 27-year-old female from Stoneham, Mass. wrote of the Bellagio: “Everyone was sincere and happy to see us and more than willing to do anything necessary to make us happy.”
“There was a wealth of things to do,” wrote a 24-year-old woman from Attica, NY of the Mandalay Bay, where she stayed for four nights. “I never had a chance to get bored, and I never really had to leave the premises.”
Of the Paris hotel, a 26-year-old female from Gainesville, Florida wrote: “It was a great experience and I can’t wait to go back! The room was terrific. The furniture was comfortable and the people were friendly.”
”Travelers often complain that hotel reviews can’t be trusted because they don’t know if they are written by people like them or not. Our unique and exclusive reviews filtering feature allows travelers to narrow down reviews so that they get only those written by people with their gender, in their same age range, and traveling for the same reasons on the same budget,” said Sam Shank, CEO of TravelPost.com. “This gives peace of mind that the recommendations are more relevant, and helps travelers to make more informed travel decisions.”
With nearly 200,000 hotel reviews, TravelPost.com is one of the fastest growing travel resources on the Web and the largest independent and impartial site for relevant hotel reviews. The site offers superior travel planning by matching travelers with the hotels that best meet their needs by providing travel advice from people truly like them. TravelPost.com delivers a set of comprehensive, consistent, and easy-to-use hotel reviews with a filtering feature that allows travelers to customize the site to find millions of combinations of reviews segmented by authors’ age, gender, purpose of stay, and travel budget, to get recommendations from travelers truly like them. The reviews are integrated with a travel blogging community in which travelers are able write about their experiences, post photos from their trips, and keep track of where they’ve been on a world map.
About TravelPost.com
Founded in January of 2004, TravelPost.com develops and markets online applications that collect and organize user-generated travel information in order to fundamentally improve the way people research and shop for travel. The site provides personalized hotel reviews, blogging, and tools to help people research, plan, record and share their travels. The TravelPost.com mission is to build the most trusted resource for researching, planning, and reserving hotels and travel. The company is based in San Francisco. For more information please visit www.travelpost.com.
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Travel Cheap – Travel Well
(PRWEB) November 4, 2004
Travel Cheap! Travel Well!
Finally traveling around the world is affordable for average income person.
Victor K. Pryles revealed all the travel secrets that we must know on his latest book.
There are thousands of books on travel, but a book devoted purely for budget travel rarely available.
In his new e-book “Travel Cheap! Travel Well!” Victor presents a variety of ways to travel for the Â?economically challengedÂ? individual. He use his skills as a researcher and consultant to unearth ways to travel cheaply.
Through his e-book he is hoping that the reader will takes great joy in developing wise, crafty and savvy traveling knowledge.
ThatÂ?s the purpose of his e-book to guide the reader find the secrets and tricks of the trade he has learned to discover ways to travel that are unique and cost-effective. An electronic book that every traveler should put on their laptop and carry around the world with them!
All the travel hot spots, the unknown secrets, the special deals and comprehensive travel savvy, knowledge that would take years to learn on the reader own hard drive, in PDF document!
Some of the knowledge he shared: Discover exactly how the airlines are vulnerable with 6 types of published airfares and ways to take advantage of them, 20 ways to outsmart the multi billion dollar travel industry, ‘repositioning cruisesÂ? to save money on first class cruise lines every month of the year, hotels are some of the most ridiculously expensive items on travel itinerary – a 15-minute tour of your hotel can save you a lot of money, Over 200 link of online sites of travel magic and travel bargains and make plans on the spot to travel like the rich and famous.
Would you like to save a lot on your next travel? Ask Victor author of “Travel Cheap! Travel Well! a book devoted purely for budget travel. There are 265 pages full of travel savvy knowledge to go!
For find more information visit:
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RealTravel Partners with Frommer’s?
RealTravel Partners with Frommer’s®
Los Altos, CA (PRWEB) September 26, 2006
RealTravel (http://realtravel.com), a travel blogging and information web site, today announced a partnership with Frommer’s (www.frommers.com), the market leader in travel guides, to provide authoritative travel information alongside user-contributed travel blogs on the RealTravel web site.
Combining the two primary sources of travel information — one from travel experts, the other from the traveling public — gives travelers planning and researching their trips online the most comprehensive and relevant travel information available today.
RealTravel is a travel blogging and information site that helps people plan trips with insights and recommendations from like-minded travelers. All of the content contributed to RealTravel is rated by an editorial team to ensure the quality of information made available to people who are researching, planning and booking trips on RealTravel.
The Frommer’s guide content adds expert travel information to over 3,500 destinations worldwide on the RealTravel site.
“We believe that complete travel information includes both authoritative travel information and insights from real travelers,” says Ken Leeder, CEO, of RealTravel. “The breadth and quality of Frommer’s travel guides makes them an ideal partner for RealTravel.”
One of the most trusted names in travel, Frommer’s provides travel guide information that meets the full range of traveler’s needs — from the value-conscious to the four-star traveler.
“We are very excited about bringing Frommer’s information to the users of RealTravel,” said Michael Spring, publisher of Frommer’s Travel Guides. “We like that RealTravel’s editorial team rates all the user contributions to the site, helping travelers make the wisest, most informed decisions, whatever their needs.”
“Combining our in-depth travel information with the best of RealTravel’s user-generated content provides people planning their trips with a fantastic source of comprehensive, top quality information to plan that perfect trip.”
About RealTravel
Recently named “One of the Twelve Essential Travel Websites” and “Best of the Web” by Forbes, RealTravel is a travel blogging and information site that helps people plan trips through the insights and recommendations of like-minded travelers, while also enabling marketers to appeal to people who are in the process of researching and planning a trip. Visit us at http://realtravel.com.
About Frommer’s
The market leader in travel guides, Frommer’s has a guide for every type of traveler — from the sophisticated world traveler to the first-time student traveler on a tight budget. Frommer’s publishes more than 320 guides and sells 2.5 million guides annually, reaching more than 7 million travelers who count on Frommer’s for exact prices, savvy trip-planning, sightseeing advice, dozens of detailed maps, and candid reviews of hotels and restaurants in every price range. Frommer’s — the best trips start here. Frommers.com is a comprehensive, opinionated travel resource featuring more than 3,500 world destinations. For more information, visit www.frommers.com. Frommer’s is a registered trademark of Arthur Frommer. Frommer’s is a branded imprint of Wiley.
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RealTravel, Inc.
650.694.4970
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Wiley
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Travel Leaders Unveil Top
Business Travel Trends for 2010
Minneapolis, MN (Vocus) January 27, 2010
Today, Travel Leaders unveiled the top business travel trends for 2010 based on findings from their annual Travel Trends Survey. The survey shows 67% of Travel Leaders’ business-focused travel agents are forecasting that business travel for 2010 will match or exceed their total bookings for last year. Conducted November 30-December 18, 2009, these business travel trends are based on responses from 227 Travel Leaders owners, managers and frontline travel experts throughout the United States and comparables to the overall national results of 521 Travel Leaders experts are included. To view the results from the 2010 Travel Leaders Travel Trends Survey, click here.
“Because business travelers make up a very significant segment of Travel Leaders’ overall mix of bookings, we dived deeper into our annual roll-up results for both corporate and leisure travelers to specifically examine what 2010 has in store for business travel in particular,” stated Roger E. Block, CTC, president of Travel Leaders Franchise Group, which includes hundreds of locations nationwide. “We’re seeing that business travel clients continue to book the same level of hotel accommodations as in the past, but we’re also seeing a noteworthy percentage of Travel Leaders business travel experts indicating a fair number of their clients are now starting to fly in business or in first class, signifying that some business clients are starting to loosen their travel policies. That being said, many clients are still opting for economy class airline tickets as they seek to maximize value at every turn.”
Anticipated level of business travel in 2010
When Travel Leaders business travel experts were asked, “What have your business travel clients indicated in terms of either actual bookings and/or client feedback as to the amount of travel they anticipate for 2010 compared to 2009?” 38.3% said booking levels would remain on par with 2009, 28.6% said that booking levels would increase in 2010, and only 11.9% indicated that they expected a further decline.
First/Business Class vs. Coach
When asked to provide the percentage of business clients who are purchasing first class tickets, over a third (35.2%) of Travel Leaders business travel experts indicated that 11% or more of their bookings are in first or business class. Another 53.7% indicated that 1-10% of their clientele is flying “up front.”
Hotel accommodations
When asked if business travel clients were trading up on hotel reservations to take advantage of the great values/deals available, trading down because of budget constraints or bookings the same hotel category, the vast majority indicated that their clients were booking the same category of hotel accommodations (71.8%), while 17.2% indicated that business travel clients were actually trading up.
Domestic travel
Over 90% of Travel Leaders’ business travel experts indicated their clients make reservations two weeks or less prior to their travel date for domestic trips (the top response was one week at 44.5%, followed by two weeks at 24.2% and less than one week at 21.6%). That compares with the 54.5% of Travel Leaders leisure travel experts who said their clients make reservations eight or more weeks prior to their travel date for domestic trips.
International travel
Nearly 73% of Travel Leaders’ business travel experts said their clients make reservations 1-3 weeks prior to their travel date (the top response was two weeks at 31.3%, followed by three weeks at 22.5% and one week at 18.9%). That contrasts with 90.8% of Travel Leaders’ leisure agents, who say their customers make reservations eight or more weeks in advance of their trip.
When your journey includes us, you travel better. To find the Travel Leaders location nearest you, go to www.TravelLeaders.com or call 1.888.206.TRIP (8747).
Travel Leaders is transforming travel with a name that boldly embodies our commitment to our vacation and business travel clients via a progressive approach toward each unique travel experience. As one of America’s top ten-ranked travel companies, Travel Leaders has assisted millions of travelers through our strong roots – the former Carlson Wagonlit Travel Associates, TraveLeaders and Tzell Travel Group joined together in 2008 to form one of the industry’s fastest-growing and robust networks of travel agents. Travel Leaders Franchise Group can trace its beginnings to 1984 as the franchise system “Ask Mr. Foster Travel,” which itself was North America’s first travel agency chain established in 1888.
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