Planning your vacation in advance saves time & money. Few Tips to save money on your Flights & Accommodation.
4 Travel portals help you to Travel Smart and Cheap
Once you planned your holidays, Book your tickets in advance to save the cost. Otherwise, you end up paying double the amount for your bookings. The airfares and big luxury hotels take the large bite of the budget.
Google Flights
A user-friendly, ad-free interface and fast searches give information about cheaper flight options. Advance features which let you see prices for a variety of destinations are quite helpful – calendar search, price tracking, and the Explore map.
Google Now displays price changes and travel tips for your tracked flights.
It’s easy to get started – just visit google.com/flights
Momondo
A beautiful, fast and user-friendly interface to find cheap flights for your unforgettable journey. The New York Times praised momondo for its ability to “find combinations of flights. Momondo allows you to search the web for a variety of travel reservations including Flights, Hotels, Rental Cars. If your travel dates are flexible, Momondo is the easiest travel portal to view price trends.
Sky scanner
Skyscanner’s flight search tool will help you find cheap flights and flight deals with popular airlines such as American, Delta, Southwest, Frontier, Allegiant Air, Volaris, United Airlines apart Indian Indian flights. Book your cheap flight on Skyscanner today. The site is available in over 30 languages and is used by 60 million people per month.
https://www.skyscanner.co.in
Priceline.com
Deep Discounts on Hotels, Flights and Rental Cars, Packages and also book cruises. Get Exclusive Savings with Priceline.com. One of the best portals to get loads of discount.
3 smart, cheap and affordable alternatives to hotels that could make your stay a memorable one!!
The alternatives to hotels where you pay a fraction of hotels price & make you save big!
#Rent a Room:
In the travel world it is a growing trend you can rent a room in someone’s house, a cottage or a private studio apartment for low nightly rates. I have used this service, believe me, it saves a lot. Which you could spend on food, traveling more places or be it shopping.
Some Websites like Airbnb.com, Homestay.com, Couchsurfing.com help you to find such stays.
Apart from budget stay these type of stays help you to open up with localities interact with them and also get to learn about the local culture. You get to visit restaurants and sites that aren’t in mentioned any guidebook and get a local’s-eye view of a destination.
A lot of times, people are scared to use such accommodation in a stranger’s home because of safety concerns- reasons like robbery, murder while you are in sleep.
But it is not so they have been verified and moreover people who are willing to open their homes to strangers tend to be very open-minded people, and are also usually former travelers who are willing to help. Couchsurfing site takes many steps to provide security and various levels of verification.
Read the ratings of users on people’s profiles and accommodations. Take your Decisions and talk to hosts over e-mail or phone before you finalise. If it doesn’t seem right, don’t do it! But with right stay accommodation, you’ll end up saving on accommodation and making friends around the world.
#Group Stay / Vacation Rentals
If you are planning a family trip or in groups with friends, you can look for spacious accommodations be it an apartment, villas, long cabins. The pantry helps you to save on Kitchen and can also save on laundry during the trip with such stay. Putting up with a group of friends or family in one place in a villa can be such a fun and priceless. Many reasons like better prices, spacious spaces with better amenities, home-like experience, full kitchens, pet-friendly lodging and stunning views: that would attract you to choose a property.
vacationrentals.com, FlipKey’s.com, turnkeyvr.com Airbnb’s roundup of treehouse rentals, Tripping.com (helps you search many sites at once for vacation rentals).
Online listing doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about the property. Reaching out to the owner before booking always helps. You can get to know about hidden costs if any. A feel of the vacation rental owners- some who are fussy and have rules like No sand, no outside guests, no barbecues, no loud music, no parties, no additional cars etc.
#Adventure Stay / Camps/Tents
If you are looking for unique, adventures stay, spend the night looking at stars, relax by a bonfire with cold winds with your family or group. Camp and tents will provide you a unique Rejuvenating experience.
Some of famous Camp Stays in India
Eco-Friendly Camp Stay in South Coorg, Camps in Rishikesh, Camps of Ladakh, Adventure Camp Sarchu –, Camp Chrysalid, Dharamshala, Hail Himalayas Camp, Shimla, Snow Trails Camp –Kufri-Chail Road, Camp Exotica at Himachal Pradesh, Royal Desert Stay at the Jaisalmer ( During The winters).
