Your road map to affordable family travel
The pillars of affordable family travel are ten important steps to take to make your family travel less expensive.
If you plan your lodging wisely, you’ll save money and have a more enjoyable trip. Although it’s entirely possible to spend crazy amounts of money to stay in places, it isn’t necessary. People sometimes spend a thousand dollars a night—or more—to stay in some hotels and resorts. If you see places like that and think […]
Saving money on airfare is critical. If you’re trying to travel as inexpensively as possible, and of course that’s the whole point of this site, we have to address the 800 pound gorilla—airfares. Especially with international travel, airfare can be the largest component of your trip expenses. Round trip tickets to Europe can top $2000 […]
Hooray! You’ve decided where you’re going on your affordable family trip. Now the fun begins. Researching your destination has multiple benefits, not the least of which is giving you more time to think about your trip. A really interesting study in the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life found that vacationers were happier than […]
When you’re planning a trip, choosing when and where to travel are the most important decisions you’ll make. They will determine every future decision about the trip. No pressure! Sometimes the decision is easy. Several years ago, when we took the kids to Disney World and Disneyland, we didn’t really have to make the choice. […]
Say it with me. There are no once in a lifetime trips. Isn’t that fantastic news? There will be many trips, and they don’t have to be perfect. When you travel more affordably, you take more trips. I get it. If you’re spending $20,000 on a trip, it has to be perfect. You’ve been saving […]
If you want to travel affordably, the more tools you have in your toolbox the better. Here are my 10 pillars of affordable family travel. Give each one their appropriate attention, and you’re almost guaranteed a great, reasonably priced trip. We’ll explore each of them in upcoming posts, but let’s do a quick overview now. […]