Dare to Plan Your Own Trip on a Budget

Kamis, 09 Juni 2016

Dare to Plan Your Own Trip on a Budget

A lot of people think twice when they need a vacation. Budget usually appears on the top of the list of their considerations, even more than time.

"Do I have the money to take a trip?"

"Is my budget enough to give me a great trip?"

Some people trick the problem by joining a tour package provided by tour and travel agents. The tour program makes you only have to pay the whole price at the first place and then enjoying the rest of the trip based on selected destination on schedule. You can also socialize with other people who join the tour. The agent usually selects the top tourist destination with a series of activity to enjoy for several times. It's usually cheaper since it's offered as a package.

On the other hand, there's also a type of person who is more independent and adventurous. This person may find tour package isn't interesting. The entire trip is set on an inflexible schedule where you can't instantly switch to visit any place longer than the others, or spontaneously going to visit a place that's not on the itinerary. You can only choose this solution to deal with the restricted itinerary: (1) Waiting for the free time session provided by the agent, that's also limited - and (2) Joining the private tour that allowed custom arrangement based on your need, but certainly more way expensive.

After realizing the dilemma, the right question to ask now actually....

"Is it possible for people to plan the trip by my own on a budget?"

For you who skeptic, thinking that's impossible to do, please prepare a good sit and start to discover these hints.

1. Determine the destination

First thing first, determines where you want to explore. After that, gather detailed information about the places and go deeply in finding the best tricks to spend time perfectly while on a budget.

You can rely on your close relatives who frequently go on travel to get a credible recommendation. Another source can be found as easy as surfing the Internet. Visit travel sites and online travel community on a forum or social media pages. Bonding with fellow travelers as they very please to share the best thrifty recommendations based on their own experience. Especially if you visit the local website of the destination, there's a big chance you find fellow travel lovers that willing to assist or guide your trip there on a budget. Some of them indeed will reveal some secret of the free trip and activities if they like you.

2. Go on trips by plane is now cheaper

It's suggested to go on a plane if you do solo traveling with long distance destination. Take a flight makes you quickly arrived at the destination, so you don't need more meal and rest area which you have to afford if long traveled by land or sea transportation. This means, beside safer and more comfortable, flying can be much cheaper for this trip.

Nowadays, flight tickets are offered cheaper than before. There's a lot of budget airlines comes with wider destinations, which can also reach the outback area. This flight can moreover cheaper than the official airline website if you book it from the online travel agent (OTA). You can easily manage your own booking via the website. Mostly OTA also develops their own mobile application supports with great features that make people can book the cheap flights everywhere every time. The OTA often provides special additional promo to ensure you get the cheapest flight on your trip. In Asia, if planning to Asia, Traveloka is the most popular OTA that give promo to user. Another OTA like Kayak, etc more popular in US & EN.

3. Booking further in advance or last minutes

These are the best time to book your flight online. Airlines commonly offer airfare much cheaper when it's still far from the flight time. It's also commonly cut the price on the last minutes to prevent the tickets not sold due to flight time. Some research towards flight ticket sites also said the middle week is the best day to book cheap flights. You can compare the price on the online travel agent sites. For instance, Traveloka has a Promo Quick Finder feature on its desktop websites. The feature shows you the cheapest price of selected routes, each day on each month for the next 11 months.

What are you waiting for? Plan your own trip now!