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...

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...

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...

How to make your holiday more rewarding

In these tough times, we all want our holidays to stretch that bit further, to get more value for money and a fuller experience. What better way than taking a volunteering holiday?

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...

We've been there... Argentina

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...