The biggest cost of travel today is accommodation. You can spend $10,000 a month for a condo in Hawaii or you can rent an estate for $25,000 a day in Palm Springs. There is no limit to what you can spend on accommodations. The trick is to get unbelievable accommodations at a budget price. You […]
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Here are some simple tips and hacks on how to book cheap car rentals. First off, join every major car rental company loyalty programs. They are free to join. There are three main benefits. The first is that all your information is in their database so it is very fast to book future rentals. The
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I want to share with you tips and hacks for cheap airline tickets. We are independent budget travellers that have been travelling 6 months a year for the past 20 years. We use a variety of strategies to get the best prices available on transportation, accommodations, insurance, food and beverages and experiences. Airplane Tickets Airfares
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Travel blogs started as personal travel diaries. The first Internet travel bloggers began in 1995 when the Internet was first developed. They were people who travelled and wanted to share their travels with their friends and relatives through websites like bloggers.com. Dedicated travel blog websites began showing up in 2009. Beginning Blog My wife and
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We know that the only constant in the world is change. As we come out of the world pandemic, we am starting to see important and significant changes in the travel industry based on what they learned during those 12-18 months. Business exists to create a profit for the shareholders by creating system efficiencies. We
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We took a day trip from Boca Chica up to the town of Boquete, Panama. The drive can be done in about 90 minutes. We were able to follow good quality secondary roads off the Panamerican Highway that took us through scenic terrain. Boquete is a popular town for visitors. There are many boutique hotels
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We first visited Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco with our children and fell in love with the Côte D’Azur. A few years later we set-up house for a month in the old town of Nice. We spent the month explored the region using their excellent public bus service. The buses are luxury coaches and the
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It is easy to fall in love with Panama. Located in Central America between Costa Rica and Columbia, it is tropical with one of the most diverse biospheres in the world. It has a variety of geography with mountains, valleys, volcanoes and is surrounded by the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and small islands. Panama is
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The gypsies are the biggest scam artists in Europe. On average, each gypsy scams 300-400 Euros a day from unsuspecting tourists. Most of that money goes back to the gypsy gang leader in Romania. Generally a gypsy gang leader will have 12-15 underlings working various tourist areas in Europe. We have run into many different
Crazy Things That Happen To You When in Rome “Mi scusi, mi scusi, do you speak English,” the man in the car asked through his rolled down window, as my daughter and I stood on the side of the roadway by the Tiber River just down from the Temple of Hercules. “Yes, I do.” I
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