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Glitzing Your Travel

On your first couple of trips, the backpacker/flashpacker life is fun. However, if you only ever partake in the lower price end of travel it can start to feel a bit limiting. There are lots of simple ways to add some style to your travel. Here are some tips.

Wear better clothes

There are whole blogs devoted to looking good while traveling but still staying comfortable and weather-appropriate, without busting your budget or your luggage allowance. For example, Travel Fashion Girl is a good one.

Splurge on one expensive activity or night in a 4 star + hotel.

For example, you might want to take a helicopter ride to the Grand Canyon rather than a long bus trip to see it. Avoid activities that are over priced at your destination compared to other places. For example, lots of the adventure activities in New Zealand might not be any cheaper than at home. Ask yourself – would you pay that much to do them at home?

You can get expensive hotels rooms for very cheap, if you’re strategic. The best advice is to try nights of the week that are the hotel’s least booked. For business locations, this will be the weekend. For tourist locations, this will be weekdays. Then use last minute opaque booking sites to snag yourself an amazing deal. Stick to properties that have an 8/10 or greater satisfaction rating. If booking on non-opaque sites and you see a price that seems out of line with comparable hotels, always check to make sure that low prices aren’t due to nearby construction.

Try a resort or a high end pre fix or all you can eat buffet.

Whether it’s chilling out for the week at a hotel in a vacation city like Vegas or Palm Springs, or going to a resort that’s further afield, there is something super luxurious about having everything you want and need right at your doorstep inside a hotel property, rather than needing to trek around to find stuff. Look for destinations or special occasions where you don’t mind paying a bit more to have a different type of experience. Just like you’d use pinterest for planning a wedding or a home remodel, start looking around at websites of luxury properties like Elegant Resorts for inspiration so you can get ideas about what your desired experiences are. For example, maybe you want a water facing room, or an affordable on site massage therapist. Search around for websites that show resorts that aren’t the ultra discounted, mass market cattle call kind.

If you’re not used to dining at restaurants above fast casual then going to fancier restaurants can be intimidating. Somewhere to start is with higher end all you can eat buffets like the type they have in Las Vegas, or pre-fixed or restaurant week menus in other cities. When you know you’ll be paying a fixed price, it can make the experience less stressful and it always takes away some of the pressure of deciding what to order.

Whatever you want to splurge on, make sure you carefully search out any negative reviews before you make a non refundable purchase. Every traveler will have a few tales of times they’ve splurged, really looked forward to it, but then been disappointed. If you do a few minutes of research you can minimize this and have a much better hit rate of amazing experiences!

Image by Dan under Creative Commons license.


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