Tag: booking

Budgeting a Week in Spain: The one-way ticket strategy and a man named Nacho

This whole ‘book one-way tickets from central hubs’ equation for travel is an art form — so here is an example of my next trip that was planned this way. I successfully followed a budget of about $100/month spread out from September to February, and now have the confidence of Beyoncé’s left boob.

 

One week of accommodations in Lisbon, Seville, and Barcelona + roundtrip transatlantic flights + transportation between cities = $750 spread out over September to June. SUCCESS, BITCHES. Here we go:

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How you can afford to travel abroad: Flight buying guide

Money is just a meaningless social construct of weak and shamelessly uncultured slaves of capitalism, sure, but you can bet your parents’ recently watered down bottles of liquor that it still buys you plane tickets. Here’s how you can do that without secretly selling your roommates textbooks to Chegg.

How I Booked Flights as a Student

This is my tried and true travel method. I wrote an article about how I booked my most recent trip to Spain by doing this so you can see it working in real life.

  1. Figure out when you can travel and PLAN EARLY 

You are obviously restricted to school scheduled breaks and summers off. This is manageable and can be affordable if you book as far in advance as humanly possible. Those dates are always the most expensive, but I have traveled to Europe in August for less than $400 roundtrip because I booked 9 months ahead of time. You have to be willing to start early before the airline begins to collect its data on those routes, and can therefore jack up the prices.

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