Do you often find yourself coming back from your road trip and worrying about the amount of money you spent? This happens to many of us. In fact, tourists are quite likely to waste a lot of money on road trips. There are different things that you can do to reduce the wastage of money. It might be different for different people, but here are the five most common reasons why people waste money on their vacations. Read through this and try to avoid them if a vacation is on the cards for you! Let’s get started.
Spending too much on fuel
One of the major causes of his expenses on a road trip is to fuel expenses. If you go on a car, the fuel expenses will be multiple times more than traveling by motorcycle. We strongly recommend you go on a motorcycle if you are traveling alone, or even if you want to take a pillion rider behind you. The average of a motorcycle is somewhere around 35 to 40 kilometers per litre of fuel, which is unimaginable for a car! Therefore, when you travel by motorcycle not only are you going to be more closely connected to the experience, you are also going to save a ton of money on fuel expenses, as well as other toll and parking fees. Unless there is a very compelling reason for you to go on a car, choose a motorcycle for your trips. The only thing that you have to manage is to break up the entirety of the road trip in small manageable sounds. For example, if you are planning to cover 500 kilometers in a day, break it up in chunks of 100 kilometer and take 10-minute breaks in between. The second obvious thing that you have to manage if you are planning to go on a motorcycle is to be completely safe on the road. Invest in premium branded helmets another motorcycle riding gears to ensure safety.
Eating at expensive places
Make a promise to yourself not to eat at expensive places when you were on vacation. Spots where high-end eateries serve food are extremely expensive and you can get the same amount of quality and satisfaction by eating at places where the locals prefer to eat. If you do not know the good places to eat at your vacation, ask somebody who has been there before, or even ask the local people for recommendations. There is a definite advantage of eating at local eateries, the first is obviously you get to save a lot of money, and the 2nd is that you get up and close with the local cuisine and culture of the people. Just make sure not to give away the fact that you are a tourist, because giving away important information such as where you are staying the night can lead to safety issues that you definitely want to avoid. Keep your communications as limited as possible and make smart conversations. Instead of giving away information about yourself, try to get information out of the local people. If they ask about your whereabouts, give broad answers and nothing specific about the hotel name, or the hotel location, or where you are heading out next.
Waiting for the last moment to make bookings
Not too sure about going on the road trip yet? No problem! All you have to do is book the hotel room that you can easily cancel later on. Look for opportunities and deals that let you pay after arriving at the hotel command that way you can easily cancel the booking and not worry about having to forfeit the booking amount. The definite advantage of booking early is that you get great deals to save money on the accommodation, something that becomes pricier as time goes by. Make your plans early, and book hotel rooms in advance so that you don’t have to rush to make expensive last moment bookings and waste money in the process.
Not planning the budget
If you don’t have a plan on how much money you want to spend during the vacation, you are going to end up wasting a lot of money that you never intended to do in the first place. Sit down and make a broad assessment after money that they were going to need for completing the vacation. Include everything from food, fuel, accommodation and emergency expenses and make a broad budget. We also recommend you take 30% of the total budget and keep it away an emergency fund and use it only when there is a real emergency. Make frugal decisions all along the way and try not to waste any money by purchasing a lot of souvenirs and mementoes for people back home. You can always come back and get something good from the local store!
Falling for tourists’ traps
Hiring a tour guide, always do money in purchasing things that you don’t really need to use your travel or becoming a victim of tourist scams are the worst ways of wasting money on a vacation. Keep an eye out for anything that is extraordinary and seems totally out of the way and avoid it at all cost. You don’t need a tourist guide these days if you know your way around using Google Maps, or the Internet for finding reliable information. You can always double check the information by talking with local people, or just exploring it on your own rather than relying on somebody else to give you a limited per view of the destination you are at – and charging exorbitant amount of money for it!
Summary: Do you often find yourself coming back from your road trip and worrying about the amount of money you spent? This happens to many of us. In fact, tourists are quite likely to waste a lot of money on road trips. There are different things that you can do to reduce the wastage of money. It might be different for different people, but here are the five most common reasons why people waste money on their vacations. Read through this and try to avoid them if a vacation is on the cards for you! Let’s get started.
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