How to start traveling and how to travel cheaply, what to save on? How to overcome your phobias about a carefree life? On all these questions, I will give some advice and give my example of how my next trip is going. But first you need to ask yourself, are you ready to travel on your own? Are you ready to be outside of the travel package offered by the tour operator?
First of all, you should start traveling with your mood, about how to convince yourself to travel on your own, I have dedicated a separate article, I hope it will help you convince your inner world and make you start traveling, and not lie on the couch every evening, telling yourself - “Tomorrow I’ll start setting myself up for a holiday abroad and I’ll look for suitable air tickets”!
I am writing this article for the purpose of helping, and maybe even for someone with an answer to a shitty question, in our time this question is especially relevant. In general, everyone can start traveling, so I managed to convince myself and conquer more than 20 cities and 10 countries of the world, of which I have visited Arshan, St. Petersburg, Crimea, almost every summer I have a vacation on Lake Baikal, I have traveled all over Europe , visited Turkey and Israel, like any normal Russian, and much more. About all cities and countries on my site there are informational articles written firsthand, so I advise you to read and start traveling on your own right now! By the way, I recently wrote about one of my travels in Indonesia, I advise you to familiarize yourself.
Believe it or not, travel is in the first place among all the desires of a person. So how to travel cheap and where to start traveling? Here, as elsewhere, the principle “start with yourself” is at work.
How and where to start traveling?
Well, the first and most important point I have already considered is your desire! Next, we have, of course, paperwork, which discourages all the desire to travel, I'm talking about applying for a visa! By the way, here are all the visa-free countries for this year with a detailed description. In order not to suffer with a visa, although now it is not difficult to make it for any country, not counting the Schengen multivisa, there is a separate situation about it, you can go to any travel company and they will do everything for you!
A huge plus will be if you have friends in a tour company, then the question disappears by itself, so thanks to my blog, I have a friend from a tour company, with whom I work closely every time I cross the border. After we have taken the entire package of documents, we gain patience and wait for readiness.
Now you need to make international payment cards, I have already talked about them in the article “on independent travel”, it is best to make two systems - VISA (dollars) and MasterCard (euros). For European countries, the second option would be the best (where is it better to go to Europe?).
We book flights and hotel
Almost all of my travels have been booked online through two cheap and reliable services. Moreover, having examined various search engines, I came to the most reliable and cheapest options, without a doubt, and I use these services to this day. So, these include:
Buying cheap air tickets
Be sure to find out how to buy cheap flights, we have compiled a short travel planning guide with life hacks and profitable tips.
Hotel reservation
If you decide to start traveling to Asian countries, then I recommend booking Room Guru hotels, they have the widest base of hotels and apartments in all Asian countries.
As for tickets for buses and trains, then the search will help you, in this regard, there is a huge number of services in each country, there is not enough space to describe them, but most often I use Ecolines.
Well, that's all you need to start traveling on your own, and in the example below, namely on a trip to Crimea for the May holidays, I will consider a variant of the question “how to travel to Crimea cheaply”.
From words to deeds or how to book cheap flights and hotels to Crimea
First of all, we look for an air ticket through the already familiar online search database for cheap air tickets. To find a cheap flight, you need to know a few rules, which you can learn from me here ‘how to buy cheap flights’. So, this is what I got if you decided to relax in the Crimea for several sunny May days. We will look for a cheap trip from Moscow to Crimea from May 2 to May 7, as it happened in my free time. Here is a good option for 7275 rubles, of course this is not the limit, last week the price for this ticket was 6500 rubles, but I decided to postpone and now I got such tickets.
Next, we are looking for and booking a cheap hotel, I think you can book a regular room in Alushta, because you do not eat to sit all day looking at the hotel, but to travel and explore the world of a new country or city for you, which means there is no point in overpaying for a hotel. So, here's what I got:
Five nights in a decent hotel in Alushta for 85 euros, I think it is more than acceptable for that kind of money, by the way, for a summer vacation, the average price in a budget hotel in Crimea will be about 2,000 rubles per day. Now we need to look for ways to get to the right place, namely to Alushta. I have a separate article about this ‘how to get to Crimea from Moscow’, here all travel options and the cheapest way to get to the desired place are considered.
Well, now you know how to start traveling and how to travel cheaply, I will repeat a little, the main thing is to start with yourself and everything will work out for you, and it's time for me to gather for new impressions, because I will soon fly to Crimea, which means there will be new articles on which you you can subscribe.
