Newly redesigned Brave New Traveler has a great post titled Budget Travel Tips You’ll Never Read in a Guidebook. These travel tips are just as the title suggests: original and unable to be found in standard guidebooks. Why? Well, some may call them “dirty” tips, and others may call them creative. I think they’re just creative budget travel tips.

Here are three of the five budget travel tips mentioned with my own little commentary. To see all five check out the article.

Go Commando

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I was requested to do a sponsored review by EuroBookings.com, and since their site is relevant to the topic of this blog I agreed. (Somebody’s got to fund the Travel Globetrotting Network).

Eurobookings is a homey online European hotel booking site. I say homey because it offers the features of the online travel giants (Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocty, etc) while still feeling personal and committed to their unique niche. Using their site feels a little more secure because you know that they cater to your specific need, which in this case happens to be booking European hotels.

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If you haven’t noticed, there have been a few changes around here lately that may have hinted at what has been keeping me pretty busy lately.

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Whether you’re a budget traveler and backpacker or not, I know you’re willing to take a free trip if someone gives you one. Continental airlines has a sweepstakes that could be worth signing up for, since it only takes a few 30 seconds. If you’re 18, a legal US resident, and are in no way affiliated with Continental Airlines you’re eligible for a free trip given (more…)

Attention college students: fly Southwest. Not only are their commercials the best, their rewards program is pretty exceptional for college students. College students, simply, get almost double everyone else.

Here is a table breaking down the sweet Southwest.com rewards… (more…)

As this is my first April Fools Day as a blogger and blog enthusiast, I am pretty entertained by the other April Fools Day jokes going around the blogosphere. Here’s a short list of my favorite April Fool’s Day jokes that relate to travel topics.

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