After quitting my extremely boring yet quite well-paying student job, the reality set in of what it really meant to be a broke student. The excess income that I had taken for granted over the past five years which completely fed into my travel planning ability and had allowed me a lot of flexibility to go wherever I want to do whatever I could afford it, changed drastically.
Although I’ve always been a budget traveler, saving for a few months meant that I could take weeks at a time going to different places, whereas now things needed to be planned in a much more long-term fashion.
This post is all about fitting travel into your budget, regardless of how low that budget might be. I’ve seen quite a few tips and tricks on the Internet on saving money, none of which seems to really work when trying to sort out where you want to travel because most of the time your bookings have to be spur of the moment. Keeping an eye out for flight deals is really one of the key factors in helping to keep travelling as affordable as possible when on a tight budget.
Knowing when you plan to take your trip can give you a guideline of when and where you need to book. By monitoring your flight prices it can guarantee that when discounts are available you can be notified by using Google flight alerts or a number of other apps including something like the Hopper App, Which is also a flight price tracking app. I found this app to be a great tool for giving me a heads up when the flight I’ve been watching has gone down in price and this also follows industry trends so you know if flights are likely to increase in price closer to your travel date.