Budget Globetrotting

World travel and living cost Index: BackpackAbility.com

I’m pleased to bring you a new, exciting budget travel and backpacking website that I think could become a timeless reference for all prospective travelers researching their destinations and making their travel budgets. The site is BackpackAbility.com. What is it? It can be described in a multitude of ways, the following being my favorite: World Travel [...]

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LowFares.com comparison Flight search Review

Here’s another travel search engine review that’s been bought… LowFares.com is another comparison flight search engine promising cheap airline tickets to travelers planning their next trip wherever. I had my own assumptions about the site at first before I gave it a test drive and I was kind of expecting something a bit different than what [...]

Best Budget Travel and Backpacking Travel Guidebooks

Travel Guidebooks might be dead in some people’s minds since the internet has all the information we need for free. However, I still wouldn’t consider venturing abroad without a published, reputable travel guidebook. You’re not going to have internet access everywhere, and when you need some quick go-to backpacking or travel tips, a big fat [...]

Excuses to travel to Europe

The topic of Europe getting expensive for budget travelers is getting beat to death with the Euros gains versus the US monopoly dollar. With political biases aside Ron Paul not in office and a weak dollar trend seemingly endless, finding rational reasons to visit Europe for fun is nearly impossible to do when more budget [...]

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Expedia.com.au Travel Booking Review

I was paid for this advertisement by Expedia.com.au Expedia is an online booking giant and has long been one of my personal favorites above the likes of Travelocity and Orbitz, and Expedia’s Australia site delivers the same great service that we are familiar with in the US. The Expedia booking engine is intuitive as expected and allows [...]

Biggest World building projects for Tourism

As the rest of the world’s growth is finally starting to outpace the US economy’s growth, most of the new huge building projects are happening overseas and we tend not to hear about them, at all. Well these projects are massive, elaborate, beautiful, gaudy, and seem to be a fixture in future urban landscapes [...]

How to make International phone calls abroad

Making phone calls home when traveling abroad is usually not an option for many; instead, it is mandatory, as declared by their mothers or other loved ones. The age of using international phone cards is still alive, but using phone cards to call home from abroad is no longer the only option for international [...]

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The Good Side to a Bad Economy - Accor’s Hotel Formule 1

Sure, you’ll be paying a lot more for your airfare in the coming year. $140 barrels of oil will see to that. And the dollar is down, so going virtually anywhere outside the borders of the U.S. will lead to an unfavorable rate of exchange. The Euro continues to make the Dollar [...]

Find Cheap Flights - Best online fare search tools

Finding the cheapest flights when planning a trip is absolutely critical, since flights often take up the largest portion of your travel budget and travel expenses, atleast for budget minded travelers. Fortunately, this thing called the internet has brought travelers websites that allow us to search more flights easier, resulting in affordable, cheap fares. So [...]

Charging Towards Frequent Flyer Miles

They are out there. Credit cards that can make your next flight easy on your wallet. They are potent weapons, but easily misused. There are plenty of choices when it comes to credit cards that earn you frequent flyer miles. But (surprise) most are not worth the trouble. All FF-earning cards have annual fees. [...]