Travel Tips: How To Save When You're Planning A Trip

Nowadays, everyone can fly! Especially when it comes to Matta Fair period and Budget Airline Free Seats Promotion, I can see that a lot of people are booking their tickets for future trips. More and more people start to travel on their own instead of following group tour arranged by travel company. I didn't buy any ticket this time around due to some personal problem. Thus, I am expecting to buy more expensive tickets for my spontaneous trip. *pain in my pocket* 

So, I am thinking where I can save in the future, if I were to buy an expensive ticket, where else can I save from? If you bought a cheap flight ticket, this post will help you to save even more!

#1 Use ShopBack

What's so good with ShopBack? It is a website that allows you to get cashback from your online purchases. They work with a lot of websites, which include Agoda, Booking.com, Expedia, Groupon, Zalora, Taobao, etc etc.... What you need to do is to register an account, and click into your desired website from the link in shopback website. You can earn cashback from your purchases! For example, you can get 5% up to RM30 cashback by booking hotel room via Agoda (through ShopBack). Isn't that easy? You can get to save too! With RM30, you can spend more on local street food during your travel. *wink ^_^*

#2 Find Cheap and Nice Accommodation

To get a cheap, clean and comfortable accommodation, you will need to do some homework. My usual routine is -- Search hotel from Agoda/Booking.com, then read reviews from Agoda/Booking.com/Tripadvisor, then compare price. Usually, to be safe, I would choose hotels with more numbers of reviews and also those with better score. Of course, location of the accommodation is important too. If you book a cheap one, but very far from the places that you want to go, the transportation fee added in later on would make your trip much more expensive. 

You can try AirBnB, Coachsurfing, Agoda or Expedia. =)

#3 Look For Local Food when you're oversea

Travel to a new place, will you look for local food or find for food that you used to eat at home? For me, it is good to explore new things when you are travelling. In addition, local food will usually be much cheaper than food from your home country. For example, if you are traveling in Australia, a plate of Malaysian style Nasi Lemak will definitely cost you more than a super size Aussie style burger. Another example would be, local street food with variety of choices in Asia countries are so much cheaper than restaurant food.

#4 Don't Get Unnecessary Charges

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Before you travel, please do some homework before flying. Usually, people get overcharged by taxi drivers for airport transfer to the city and vice versa. If you have an idea how much taxi fare usually cost, you can avoid unnecessary expenses during your trip.

Hope these tips are helpful! Thanks for reading!