Cheapest Destinations Blog
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Hi, I'm Tim Leffel. I help people figure out how to travel well for less and show them where they'll get the most bang for their budget. I write about the cheapest places to travel as well as great places to live abroad for less.
Cheapest Destinations Blog
2d ago
Are you going backpacking in Europe or heading to the continent for an extended travel trip? Or maybe you can work remotely so you’re taking your time? Touring Europe on a budget is tougher than in some other parts of the world, but I’ve done it multiple times and am going to share what works ..read more
Cheapest Destinations Blog
2d ago
Ever since I started this budget travel blog back in 2003, I’ve written regularly about safe travels and the perception of travel risks. Even though people—especially Americans—generally face more deadly risks at home than they do abroad, people who don’t travel much think it’s a big scary world out there and they have to be ..read more
Cheapest Destinations Blog
1w ago
In one of those strange twists of frequency, Alaska has come up in three travel conversations I’ve had this past week and one podcaster I was listening to was talking about how it was the state in North America he still hadn’t been but wanted to so he was making plans. It feels like a ..read more
Cheapest Destinations Blog
1w ago
How do you know if your backpacker travel budget is too low when you’re traveling around the world? In short, it’s if instead of just making some comfort sacrifices, you’re losing your money perspective, being extra risky with your health, and skipping great experiences. I get asked a lot of the same questions from the ..read more
Cheapest Destinations Blog
3w ago
Every year, millions of monarch butterflies start heading south for the winter, migrating like birds and ending up at El Rosario Butterfly Sanctuary in the state of Michoacan. There are several other places they land where you can visit and see them in their natural habitat, but El Rosario is the biggest one and has ..read more
Cheapest Destinations Blog
1M ago
A travel industry friend recently asked a question on Facebook about which airline his friends thought was “the best.” When you removed the answers influenced by loyalty status perks, it was a pretty short list: Southwest and Alaska Air in the USA, Emirates, Qatar Airlines, and Singapore Airlines internationally. If he had really wanted to ..read more
Cheapest Destinations Blog
1M ago
Want to see thousands of interesting Mexican masks in one place? Head to the Museo Rafael Coronel Museum in Zacatecas. I first arrived in this part of Mexico while on assignment to review some hotels in Aguascalientes and Zacatecas. The former has a great Museo de los Muertos (Museum of the Dead) and the latter ..read more
Cheapest Destinations Blog
1M ago
Before you take off traveling abroad this year and next, you may need to add a little to your budget for tourist fees and extra taxes. After the most popular travel destinations got a much-needed break from the crowds in 2020 and 2021, the past two years have seen tourism numbers return to their peak ..read more
Cheapest Destinations Blog
1M ago
What happens when some giant corporate conglomerate that sells everything from trash cans to pens takes over an iconic travel clothing brand that has been around for decades? We’ve seen this movie before and often, that brand either disappears or goes into a steep decline. Unfortunately the former may be coming for Exofficio, but for ..read more
Cheapest Destinations Blog
1M ago
A few months ago I published a strange combination of ranting about Google’s awful search results lately and unearthing very old (and too short) posts of mine to show a history of the Cheapest Destinations Blog. This old-school post did rather well. The boss of the internet will never rank it, but enough followers cared ..read more