Comments on: The Round-the-world Travel Budget

By: hotels in prague

hotels in prague — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:35:55 +0000

You have to leran to be practical.I agree to Brian that quickly moving will eat lot of your cash.Try to find an easy way.

By: tim

tim — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:19:12 +0000

Thanks for the tips everyone. Staying with someone can indeed help a lot in an expensive country. If you’re going to be in Nashville, find me on Hospitality Club or Global Freeloaders. If I’m in town we’ve got a bed. Good point Carolina. Seasons can make a huge difference, even between one month and the next.

By: brian from nodebtworldtravel.com

brian from nodebtworldtravel.com — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:03:16 +0000

Moving quickly does eat up alot of cash. A mad dash thru a number of countries will be more expensive than slowing down and enjoying a place as long as you want to.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:11:15 +0000

Hey Tim – Nice to catch up on your blog after an absence – we were traveling cheap in France, believe it or not. $1000 USD per month per person!

Anyway, another tip is that if you’re traveling during the holidays it pays to stay in one place for the weeks around Xmas and New Years. Prices can jump and if you’re traveling without reservations you can be stuck in the expensive hotels if the cheap ones are full.

Far and away the most expensive part of travel is accommodation. Especially in expensive countries, if you want to save money on travel, put your energy into figuring out ways to sleep cheap – hook up with the friend of a friend from home who just moved to that country and is homesick for people who speak English, find a homestay organization that doesn’t suck, use wwoof or helpx if you’re interested in seeing working life a little…. Hotels are usually last-resort for us in expensive places, and we’ll often organize our trip around going to a location where we know we have a place to stay.

If half your nights on the road are free then you can stay twice as long.

By: Carolina

Carolina — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:00:10 +0000

I hadn’t heard the term “fly to the clusters” before, but that’s exactly what we’d been planning to do on our around-the-world trip. We’ve also learned the value of timing; our initial plan had us in our two expensive areas — Australia and Western Europe — in the high seasons (late December-January and July, respectively). After seeing how much lodging prices jump during these times, we decided it’d be better to move the departure date to two months later, which would give us time to save more money pre-trip and put us in those expensive places in shoulder seasons, when the weather will still be pleasant and the crowds will be gone.