Especially in Europe, it is so easy to move around and go from one city/county to the other, so you can also check flights to nearby countries if they don’t happen to be cheaper than to the country you plan to go, in a positive case you get the Bonus of visiting another country besides the one you had in mind.

Bear in mind: almost anything is valid if it comes to saving money. Just don’t bother yourself, it is all part of the adventure.

Season

Summer days can be great, the weather is warm, the gardens are beautiful, the trees are green, the light looks perfect. Yeah, I understand, but just like you think like this, everybody else also thinks the same way, not only that, air companies and hotels also think like that too!

What a coincidence! But while you picture a nice vacation, they picture their bank account numbers.

There are high seasons and low seasons and in most places, the summer is considered their high season, so here we face that law of supply and demand. It is the period of the year where everybody wants to travel so it is comprehensive that air company and hotels will raise their prices.

Autumn and winter are the cheapest seasons to travel. But of course, depending on where you are planning to go, winter can be a kind of bad decision for many reasons, first, it will be too cold and you should be prepared to freeze a little bit, and by little bit I mean, bring your gloves to make sure you will have all your fingers still when you go back home.

Especially if you get a snow season it can mess your plans a little. Autumns too can be pretty cold but at least the weather will be better than on winters and it will be more chill to walk around.

Holidays and weekends

Just like summers, when everybody decides to travel, holidays and weekends too are days that everybody takes advantage of to travel. So again the law of supply and demand, the prices of airfare and hotels will be more expensive than during the rest of the week.

So a tip, when you are looking for cheap flights online, is to avoid looking for flights on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and here we can consider Mondays as well because as Sundays, many people will be coming back from their trips.

Try to get flights in the middle of the week in noncommercial hours.

Low-Cost Airline

There are several low-cost airlines working around the world. From travels inside Europe especially, I recommend taking them. Trains can be very expensive sometimes and for real, the cheapest way to travel from country to country is by plane. Companies like Ryanair offer flights for €10 depending on the route and day.

There are low-cost airlines that also cover bigger routes like for example Royal Air Maroc who offers flights from America to Europe and North Africa for a relatively cheaper price.

Where to get tickets online

Skyscanner

Skyscanner is a Flight search engineer. It finds the best deals and re-directs you to the site where he found it. In my opinion, this is the most organized site to find cheap flights. When filling the information, instead of informing the dates, you can choose “Cheapest Month” so the site directs you exactly to the best offers available in the year.

Decolar

Perfect for those buying tickets in the Americas. If you choose the option “Didn’t decide my dates yet” the site directs you to the best deals they have during the year. But pay attention to the number of days for each offer as they differ from one another. Although it doesn’t seem to be such a popular site worldwide, I have got pretty good flight deals on it. Besides flights, you can also book hotels, tours and rental cars.

Expedia

This is another site where you can centralize your travel bookings, from flights to hotels and rental cars, it makes it easier to organize your travel and in some cases, helps you to save some money as well. They have good flight deals all the time.

Travel Insurance

So you bought your flight ticket, but then what? Well, in international travel, it is necessary to buy a Travel Insurance.

“Is it obligatory?” you will ask me, yeah little padawan, it is. “But what is it?” well, basically it covers your dispenses if something not cool happens to you, and “not cool” can mean many things, from a tuk-tuk running you over in the Indian traffic to your luggage full of donuts going missing.

Different Insurances cover different dispenses, but in general Travel Insurances covers your dispenses in case you hurt yourself, lose your luggage and other travel-related dramas.

Perhaps you will look at me like puuff, I don’t need it, I’m going to Thailand next month and I totally know how to ride an elephant, yolo.

Well, maybe you are really an elephant master but taking precautions is never too much. I know cases of people who were asked for their Travel Insurance paper at the airport’s immigration. Plus it is so cheap that there is no reason to take risks!

For Travel Insurance I recommend World Nomad. The interface of their website is really simple compared to others, you just need to inform the country you are traveling to, your own country, and the dates of your trip and it gives you the quote.

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