Save on Travel

Save on Travel by Avoiding Small Costs That Add Up. Use those savings on top local tours and exhibits! Typically every trip I take abroad as a solo traveler my budget estimate falls short about $500-$1,000.

Certain costs, when taken separately, seem so minor that they go unnoticed but can really snowball. Although they apply to everyone, as single travelers already pay a premium not experienced by couples, families or groups, it is important to at least be aware of these added fees when traveling alone.

Since I am planning more solo travel for year- end  pulled out my calculator and tried to identify a few of these “mystery” items to Save on Travel. I found 5 types of expenses that accounted for up to approximately 10% of my estimated costs.

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Solo Travel 5 Tips for Staying Healthy: Do this to avoid getting sick as often on travel. I firmly believe: “Know before you go”. However, every question seems to bring a series of new questions.

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In addition, planned to greet the New Year in Cambodia and then travel alone to Vietnam and Thailand. I had been looking into required vaccinations and health issues for travelers.

I received confounding answers from both intrepid fellow travelers and the US government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  The toughest question? How aggressively to plan for potential risks? Statistics help but only to a limited extent. Where risk of serious harm is only 5%, if it happens to you, it is 100% in your case! Is it better to pay $1,500 for potentially unnecessary vaccin...

Have the Best New Year’s Eve in New York! 5 Ways! Spending new year’s eve in New York City is on the bucket list of countless travellers across the world. It has all the excitement and magic that one needs to see in a new year and whether you’re on a budget or money’s no object, this post is for you.

Of course, this iconic city is a constant buzz of activity throughout the year. New York is also known as “the city that never sleeps” – just one of its city slogans – so where better to welcome in 2020 than the Big Apple?

Have the Best New Year’s Eve

5 ways to celebrate the New Year in New York

To help you make the most of your New Year’s Eve celebration, and to better experience New York on a budget, I’ve put together a list of five epic ways to begin 2020...

Holiday Countdown

Holiday Countdown: More Fun and Really Odd Holiday Facts:

Holiday Countdown: Fun Facts and Solo Destinations-With only 24 days left, it’s time for today’s fun fact about weird and wacky celebrations around the world:

Fireworks are traditional almost everywhere; however, having at least one Scottish ancestor, I couldn’t resist recounting this tale.

If you find yourself in Scotland, be prepared to duck! Holiday Countdown In Stonehaven, the celebration includes a New Year’s Eve parade with spinning balls of fire making for a lively treat.

Holiday Countdown Solo Travel Destination, Morocco

For an off the beaten path holiday, choose Morocco!

• See if there is snow in the Atlas Mountain peaks.
• Go Holiday Countdown for a very (very) fast hydrofoil cruise past the Rock ...

Solo Travel-How to Make Any Shoe a Showstopper: On a gray day, there is nothing like a sassy new pair of heels to put a bounce in your step! The good news? Each pair does not have to cost as much as a previously owned Mercedes.

Solo Travel-How to Make Any Shoe a Showstopper:

Tip One: Don’t always treat your new purchase as the finished product. My rainbow array of shoes below is made up of those that I have given a quick facelift.

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Tip Two:  Both ankle boots and knee boots are tough. Have you ever noticed they cost way too much and look alike? The best way to convert an average pair to an awesome pair is with boot cuffs.  These have been fashion sleepers still largely unnoticed through Solo Travel...

Ultimate Holiday Travel with Kids Checklist, if you’re gearing up for holiday travel with kids — especially the under 5 set—here’s a list I’ve put together to help make sure your family will be ready for the smoothest, safest holiday travels possible. Know anyone who could use this list? I love it when you share! Buttons above and below. ?

Also, if you’re on Twitter, I’ll be tweeting more helpful holiday travel with kids tips, reminders, and helpful links throughout the season. Now, what do you need to check off this list first—and what can you get done this weekend?

Ultimate Holiday

1: Reserve your baby gear rentals now for the Ultimate Holiday

It’s not uncommon for baby gear rental agencies to fully book their most popular gear itemsfo during peak holiday season, so make...

Fun and Odd Christmas Facts:

Fun Holiday Facts-30 Days Left, & Solo Destinations. If you are currently pricing Christmas trees, can you guess what (and where) was the most expensive one ever?

Past Guinness Book of World Records reported:

Price: $11,026,900.  That awesome Christmas Tree had a few enhancements–181 twinkling baubles of fine jewelry were nestled among its evergreen branches!

Location: the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

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Fun Holiday Alone Destinations. With only 34 days left until New Year’s, we are launching the Holiday Countdown with a daily fun/odd holiday fact and top solo travel destination. To avoid being “home alone for the holidays’, check in with us each day for ways and places to celebrate Fun Holiday Alone.

New Yr’s Minus 34 Days and Counting: Where can you celebrate the holidays by heaping dishes at your favorite next door neighbor?  In Denmark, those who have the most dishes broken on their doorstep are considered lucky indeed to be so popular! It seems strange but perhaps you have to be there to enjoy it! Have Fun Holiday Alone.

Fun alternative to spending the holidays home alone: Book a Holiday Markets River Cruise to your choice of the Rhine or Danube for 8 days/7 nights.

At Fun Ho...

Solo Travel Warnings

Solo Travel Warnings, Avoid Arrest Abroad: In your plan to go abroad for fun, it is easy to miss strict laws at your chosen spot. In Asia and the Mideast, drug laws are well-known. In one such destination, I recall at Immigration/Customs a sign that “drug traffickers face the death penalty”. In one popular Mideast destination on a past trip, I learned there were then 200+ drugs that carried a 4 year jail term for possession. The shock? It included certain drugs legal at home and even others used at home but still able to be detected later on a lab test abroad.

What to do? As Solo Travel Warnings they say, “know before you go”. Since many of us in the US and Canada go to Europe often, it is easy to overlook their rules...