Top ways to travel on a shoestring
Feeling the pinch? Follow these easy budget travel tips and save a penny or two on your accommodation, transport and souvenirs, without compromising on the good times
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Beat the credit crunch with our helpful articles with top tips on how to travel on a budget and how to buy cheap flights online. And for some light entertainment, we tell you our own experiences of travelling on a shoestring…
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How to buy cheap flights online
Get some helpful hints and tactical tips on how to buy the cheapest flight available online. Try these techniques and you may well come away with a good holiday bargain
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Our top budget travel tips and tales
The staff at Stanfords are very well-travelled and we have all partaken in our fair share of budget travel too. Here are everyone’s top tips and experiences of travelling on the cheap
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We've been there... Iceland - Reykjavik
Intent on not forking out too much for food, I had brought with me biscuits, pistachio nuts, peanuts, vodka and a firm intention to pig-out at the hotel's breakfast buffet...
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Since the collapse of the Peso, Argentina has gone from the most expensive country in South America to one of the cheapest. This has made Argentina into a hot destination for budget travellers for the first time
Read moreWe've been there... USA - coast to coast on a budget
Driving across America is one of those things which you have to try at least once in your lifetime. Our trip started in Orlando. After three months’ work in Disney World, we were sick of Mickey Mouse and decided to go west...
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We had a memorable evening last night in the company of Tony and Maureen Wheeler, founders of Lonely Planet, who visited the London store to tell their personal story about LP...
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