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Ultimate Travel Money Guide: How to Budget and Save on Travel
Travel and money can be looked at so many ways.
We've done that. We've looked at and written about travel money - budgeting, saving and protecting travel money - in over 60 unique articles.
This is your ultimate guide to all the information we have on how to budget travel, how to save for travel and how to save while you travel.
This section of Solo Traveler is the equivalent of a book. The difference is that we update the articles regularly attempting to keep all the information current.
60 Articles on How to Budget Travel and Save Money on Travel
In our travel money section you'll find concise articles on:
- How to budget your trip.
- How to travel on a budget.
- How to save money for travel.
- How to save money as you travel whether that's luxury or budget travel.
- How to protect your money while traveling.
You can only spend a dollar once.
Do so wisely and you'll be able to travel longer, farther and more often while staying within your travel budget. This is what we'll help you achieve through the travel money articles below.
Solo Travel with Fabulous Travel Freebies
Finding great travel freebies helps your travel budget and you travel farther, longer and more often. Travel money saved is travel money to spend elsewhere!
How to Choose the Right Travel Rewards Credit Card
Here’s how to find the right travel rewards credit card for you – balancing bonuses with travel style with lifestyle.
Solo Travel on a Tight Budget: Easy as ABC
Where to go. When to go. How to go. All of this is wrapped up in these three steps to solo travel on a tight budget.
Travel Money: All Your Options For Managing Cash and Cards While Traveling
Lots of tips on how to manage your money, keep your cash and cards safe and avoid ATM and foreign exchange fees as you travel.
Exchange Rates, Destinations and Saving as You Change Money
Here are winning and losing destinations based on currency trends PLUS 5 top tips you need to know for saving as you exchange your money.
Keep Life at Home Safe While You Travel
Here are tips to protect your home, your credit rating, the validity of your house insurance and your bank account from unnecessary expenses as you travel.
Get the Best Deals on Flights: Here’s How
When, where, how and with whom you book your flights all contribute to the price you pay. Here’s how to get the best deal on flights.
Repositioning Cruises: A Good Deal for Solo Travelers?
A repositioning cruise can be a great deal. They are also different than most cruises and can be hard to find. Here’s what you need to know and how to book.
No Money to Travel? Here’s What You Do.
The desire is great but you have no money to travel. What to Do? Here’s how to think it through and links to 16 posts for greater detail.
How to Avoid Hidden Hotel Fees
Tips to avoid hotel fees and help you save money. Here’s how to plan your trip so that you return home without breaking your travel budget.
Credit Card Points: Apps for Managing & Spending Them
Credit card points are an important part of my financial picture for travel. Here’s a new app for Canadians that helps monitor and manage points better.
6 Things to Do With Leftover Currency
Oh it can mount up. Coins and bills from other countries that you’ll never return to. What do you do with leftover currency? Here are 6 ways to manage it.
6 Ways to Save at The Airport
Why spend your money on the boring, tedious part of travel – the airport. Here are 6 ways to save at the airport so you have more to spend on real travel!
Countries with the Best Deals on Flights: Knowledge to Help You Save
Sometimes going a little out of your way can save a lot. Here are the countries that have the best and deals on flights domestically and internationally.
Travel Planning: Morbid Stuff You’d Rather Not Think About
Not all travel planning is fun but it is all important. Here’s how one reader dealt with the issues of travel insurance, wills and repatriation of remains.
Save Money / Make Money: The Homestay Option
Meeting locals is wonderful but travel is expensive. Homestay helps you in both regards. You can save money and you can make money with Homestay.
Eek! I Lost My Credit Card
Lost your credit card? What to do about it is no longer the simple “cancel it” answer. Here’s your decision path for a credit card gone missing.
Travel Money: When it’s OK to Break Your Travel Budget
Opportunities arise that simply demand that you break your travel budget. Here’s how to make travel money decisions and break your budget with impunity.
17 Ways to Save on an Ocean Cruise
For some, cruising is the only way to travel. No packing and unpacking. Many ports of call. But it can be expensive. Here’s how to save on an ocean cruise.