If you are in the spirit of traveling, exploring places and you have to do it with a certain budget, this article is a medicine and has been written just for you.. As someone who has applied the list of How to travel cheap one by one, I can say that; All of these ways are effective ways from each other.. The best part of cheap travel ways is that increasing money from a trip allows you to make the next trip. I’m sure it will contribute to your budget.. It is very difficult to travel without spending money, but it is up to you to determine the amount of money you will spend.. Exactly the way to travel frequently is through here.. Let’s move on to the ways of economical travel now.

First of all, we need to talk about the most important cost stages of a trip.. These are, respectively, air tickets, city transportation, car rental, accommodation, the time period you will travel, museum entrance fees, currency exchange transactions, communication costs, food and beverage and shopping. Now let me try to explain the titles in detail in order.

Hang on Cheap Airfare

I always say this. A cheap flight ticket you buy is a source of motivation for your next trips.. Do not forget to read my article titled How to Find Cheap Flight Tickets about cheap airline tickets, which is the most important pillar of economic travel.

Make Accommodation Affordable

One of the most important expenses that make up travel costs is the accommodation fee. If you are looking for cheap travel methods, you probably do not plan to stay in a 5-star hotel.. We have 5 gold suggestions for you for accommodation on the roads of economical travel.. These suggestions are like a medicine for your budget and will directly reduce your accommodation expenses..

Early Reservation

No matter where you will stay, early reservation reduces costs. If your travel plan is clear in advance, definitely book early.. A hotel price you set 2 months ago and the price you set last minute will not be the same.. Therefore, if you want to travel cheaply, early reservation is a must.

Hostel Accommodation

Hostel accommodation is one of the most important topics of cheap travel methods.. It saves you a lot of money. For example, we chose to stay in a hostel during our Ukraine Kyiv trip.. We stayed in Kiev for 2 people, 3 nights and 4 days and in total we paid 340 TL only for the hostel.. The room we stayed in was for 2 people.. We shared the kitchen, WC and bathroom in the hostel we stayed.. There are many advantages to staying in a hostel.. You get to know different people from different countries and you can use the hostel’s kitchen to reduce the cost of meals.. You can find a market where you are traveling and use the hostel’s kitchen with the materials you buy very easily.. Without exaggeration, you can also bring something from Turkey. 🙂

Airbnb Experience

Airbnb What is it? Airbnb is a platform that connects landlords and tenants, enabling hosts to rent part or all of their homes.. Thanks to this application, homeowners can earn income by renting out places they do not use.. Instead of paying a large amount of money to hotels, the tenant gets cheaper accommodation.. Airbnb is one of the best ways to travel cheap.. There are many beautiful houses on this platform.. It is important that you do good research and act fast.

Couchsurfing Experience

If you say you don’t want to pay for accommodation, then Couchsurfing comes to your rescue.. It is the best among the cheap travel methods because you do not pay anywhere.. If you can use Couchsurfing well, you can meet different people and make accommodation free of charge.. We experienced Couchsurfing during our Iran Tabriz trip and we were very satisfied. For detailed information about Couchsurfing, you can check this article .

Setting a Tent

Traveling the world with a backpack and a tent. Maybe the dream of many.. Traveling the world by pitching a tent is the most difficult way to travel cheaply, but there are many people who do it.. Like a turtle, your house is on your back, hence the cost of accommodation.:)

Other Details About Accommodation

*** Whether it’s a hotel or a hostel, it’s the last day. Make sure to get as many free cancellations as possible because last minute plans can change.
*** If you plan to stay long-term and crowded to your destination, you can rent a regular flat.
*** Do not set up a hotel or hostel that is too far from the places you will visit.. Don’t spend more money on transportation while trying to make travel cheaper.

Reduce Your Food and Drink Expenses

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If the goal is to travel to many places with little money, you have to scrutinize every subject.. Since the issue of eating and drinking abroad is an issue that increases costs, it is at an important point among cheap travel methods.. You always need to act in a planned manner and cut costs in terms of food and drink.. Here I give you 5 gold advice. Thanks to these recommendations, your cost of eating and drinking will be minimized.

Breakfast at the Hotel

The subject of eating and drinking is a subject related to the place where you will stay.. If you are going to stay at the hotel, you should make sure that breakfast is included in the accommodation.. Also, have a very healthy breakfast.. It is up to you to remove additional meals from breakfast.. We Turks are very talented in this regard

Self-Cooking in the Hostel Kitchen

As I mentioned in the accommodation title, staying in a hostel-style place at the point of eating and drinking gives you a big plus in terms of reducing costs.. Since the hostel has a kitchen, you can bring your meals cheap by using the hostel’s kitchen, whether you bring from Turkey or shop from the markets in your area..

Bringing Food from Turkey

Spaghetti makes a lot of sense, as it is ideal in terms of taking up space among what you will bring from Turkey, keep in mind. In addition, tuna is a good option in terms of protein.. In the meantime, it is useful to take a look at the articles about the customs rules of the country you are going to.. Singapore, for example, is pretty tough on food.. Some countries also have very strict rules on honey and meat points.. It’s good to be careful. If you have a short trip (3-4 days), foods such as sandwiches and wraps that you prepare and stretch at home work quite well.. Since you will be traveling with high performance, you can also take energizing foods such as snacks and nuts between meals.

Avoid Luxury Restaurants

If you want to travel cheap, you should avoid luxury restaurants and prefer street flavors or more suitable places instead.. Be careful in Asian countries in terms of hygiene at the point of street delicacies. Do not ignore the fast food option.

Find Cheap Markets

Just as we have affordable markets such as BİM, ŞOK, A101, try to find such markets wherever you go.. When you find such markets in this regard, for example, you can shop for food from Lidl in Europe..

Reduce Transportation Costs

Amount spent on urban transportation too much in the budget Although it does not cover, it is actually an important cost item.. By the cost of urban transportation, I mean the amounts paid to transportation vehicles such as taxi, bus, metro, train.. Although the amount spent on taxi use seems like a small cost, when you look at the total, it can be a serious figure.. Urban transportation is closely related to the development of the country you are going to.. In some countries, taxi is the only alternative, while in others, there are many alternatives such as buses, subways and trains.. I am listing 4 pills to reduce costs in urban transportation.

Use Uber

If you have UBER in the country you are traveling to, you are very comfortable at the urban transportation point.. Using UBER is a good way to make travel cheap. You can find all the details about UBER in my article titled What is UBER, How to Use UBER.

In order to reduce travel costs, there may be alternative applications to UBER in your destination country.. Since different applications such as Grab, Snaap are used especially in Asian countries, I suggest you do a good preliminary research on this subject..

Don’t Forget Public Transport

The cheapest way to reduce local transportation costs abroad, apart from taxi, is of course bus, metro and train. You can find the public bus site of the country you are going to and find out the cost in advance.. We did this in Santorini, it was very convenient for us. Public buses are a great way to catch the spirit of that city.. You feel as if you are a native living in that country.. For the metro and train, it will be cost-effective to download the maps of the city and act accordingly before you travel.. At this point, it would be useful to take a look at my article titled Offline Maps and our favorite application, Maps.me.. You can also take a look at the Rome2rio site, which may be useful and give you ideas for urban transportation.

Negotiate with Taxi Drivers

The point where you may have the most difficulty in terms of urban transportation is with the airport. transportation between your accommodation. Especially if you landed at the airport in the middle of the night and you do not have a bus/metro facility, the only alternative is a taxi.. At this point, it is very important to bargain with the taxi drivers.. After all, there is a tourist logic in many places.

Hitchhike

Hitchhiking is a must when it comes to reducing transportation costs.. There is not much between us and hitchhiking, which is a way we tried in Greece.. But we know that there are those who hitchhike touring Turkey and even the world.. This is entirely up to you and your ability.. It’s a nice way to travel for cheap.

Walk a lot

If you ask what is the most convenient way of transportation in the city, of course, grassland. 🙂 We also had trips where we took at least 20,000 a day.. For this, if the distance between the places you will visit in the city you go to is close, walking will be the most appropriate in terms of costs.

Student is Candır

Being a student is an advantageous situation in many places. If you are a true student, I can say that you have many parent blessings in some respects.. Let me give an example right now. While we were going to Santorini Island, we bought the ferry tickets with a 50% discount using our student ID (ISIC Card) and this enabled us to make a profit of around 80 Euros. you can benefit. It is a great chance to be a student that I count among the ways to travel cheap.. Of course you can use. By the way, if you issue an ISIC Card, which is an International Student Card, you can benefit from student discounts in many places abroad.. For this, do not forget to take a look at my article titled ISIC Card.

Car Rental Pay Attention to Your Costs

Are we going to save money on renting a car?. Yes that’s right. Among the ways to travel economically, there are some things to consider when renting a car.. If you have to rent a car, pay attention to the following items.

Your biggest assistant in car rental is of course the internet.. Advance reservation is very important in car rental.. Booking in advance will make your trip cheaper after you have prepared your entire plan to cut costs. If you stay at the last minute, you can do your market research in the city center of your destination.. City centers would be more suitable. Do not rent a car from the first rent a car you enter.

You should pay attention to the insurance coverage of the vehicle.. Comprehensive insurance should always be preferred. If they ask for a reimbursed fee for this, it will be beneficial for you to pay.

You should pay attention to the fuel condition of the vehicle.. There is no benefit to you from putting too much fuel.. For this, it will reduce the cost by checking the km and buying fuel accordingly.

Importance of the Time Zone You Will Travel

Choosing the low season is always a big plus among cheap travel methods.. In every sense, the prices are high in the high season, that is, in the summer months.. Therefore, you should prefer low season to travel cheap.. In addition, since popular destinations are very crowded in high season, another advantage of planning a trip in low season will be to travel comfortably.

In high season, the budget suffers the most in accommodation.. Let me explain with an example, when we made our trip to Santorini in May, our hotel fee was 49 Euros per night, while it was 199 Euros per night in the same hotel during the high season, that is, in the summer months..

Museum Entrance Fees

Traveling brings some costs, it’s perfectly normal. But after this article, I am sure you will travel with a more affordable budget.. Anyway, let’s come to another travel expense, the museum entrance fee..
Not if you do not visit the national museums of some cities.. The history of countries lies in their national museums. It is quite difficult to reduce costs in this regard, but I still want to specify 2 ways.

International Museums Day (May 18)

First of all, some museums are open on certain days (which these can be an important day of that country) can be free. One of these discount days, May 18, International Museums Day, coincided with us in Rhodos Island and we visited the museums we entered here (except private museums) free of charge.. You can find out about the discount days of the museums by entering the official website of the museums.. Of course, it wouldn’t make sense to plan your trip according to these free days, but keep this in mind.

Buy Combined Tickets to Museums

Secondly, in some countries there is a combined ticket event in their museums.. Let’s say there are 4 historical places you will visit in the place you are traveling to.. With the combined ticket you will buy, you can visit these 4 places more conveniently.. For example, if you travel separately, you will pay 20 Euros in total for all of them, but you will pay 12 Euros with a combined ticket.. You can reduce the museum entrance fee by purchasing a combined ticket.

Beware When Exchanging Currency

When it comes to traveling cheaply, currency exchange comes into play.. The point you need to pay attention to when it comes to currency exchange is commission rates.. Some places can charge you serious fees with a high commission rate, such as a loan shark.. For this, my advice is to exchange your currency in a more corporate place (such as a bank).. City centers are always ideal for this.. If you need to change money at the airports, it will always be useful to exchange enough money for you for a certain period of time.. You can exchange the rest from the city centre..

NOTE: Don’t forget to learn the exchange rates of your destination before you travel.

<h2 class="has-text-align-center has-background" style="background-color" :#d8dfe4"Reducing Communication Costs/h2 pIf you want to have an internet package in the country you are traveling to, you need to buy a sim card. For this, it will be useful to research which operators are in the place you are going to.. You should calculate how many GB of internet you will use according to the day you will stay.. For this, you need to have a perfect plan prepared in advance.. If you have decided not to buy a sim card, you can connect to the free wi-fi networks in the central places or squares of the city you are visiting./p h2 class="has-text-align-center has-background" style="background-color:#d8dfe4" Shop Carefully/h2 pWhen it comes to shopping, a lot can be written on the question of how to travel cheaply.. But I will try to write as much as I know what you need to know about shopping abroad.. /p h3Stay Away from Extreme Touristic Places/h3 pYou should stay away from touristic places when it comes to shopping. If it is understood that you are a tourist in many places, the prices may vary. 🙂 If you can choose the places where local people shop, you will reduce your costs./p h3Don't hesitate to bargain/h3 pIt is generally beneficial to bargain.. Since we grew up with a bargaining culture, this subject is not foreign to us.. For a souvenir you will buy in a foreign country, the seller opens his mouth to you for 50 Euros, then it drops to 10 Euros.. You need to be vigilant about this. Do not hesitate to bargain. Oh, and don't keep too much money in your wallet and the seller will never see the amount in your wallet./p h3Beware of Street Sellers/h3 pThe issue I will talk about in this article happened to us in Florence.. While walking down the road, the African-born black seller first came in, where are you from, you look good on each other, he joined the National Team, he left Dembaba, then he said, "I'm giving you a gift necklace," he left. After 10 seconds, he came after us and said that my family needs money and asked for money.. But he did it very professionally. He did it so professionally that we paid the man just for this acting 🙂 I mean, don't believe the people who say I'm giving you gifts in this style (it happened to us in Edirne Selimiye Mosque too) and pay attention to these sellers./p pIt's cheap. this is my list of travel methods for now. Everything in my budget travel guide is fixed by experience.. The most important point here is to do a very, very good research before traveling.. If you have experience in terms of cheap travel routes, we will be happy if you share with us by leaving a comment below, and we will save money Our motto is clear: strong"The best result of making a trip cheap is to sail on another trip."/strong Happy Travels.

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