Customer Reviews

The Little Budget Travel Book

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If you like to travel and want to improve your frugality, this book is for you. If you like to travel and already consider yourself fairly frugal, this book is also for you!

I fall into the latter category, and not only did this book present tips that had never occurred to me, it got me brainstorming even more ways to save money and enjoy my travels. More importantly, it reinforced the idea that frugality is a habit that requires hard work and lots of practice. Thanks, David, for reminding me. This is definitely a book to re-read.

As you can see from the page count, this book is quite short. There's very little fluff. The whole book start to finish is tip after tip for saving money on your travels.

As to the quality/freshness of the suggestions, I found the overwhelming majority of them to be ones I hadn't heard before. (Though admittedly, my wife and I aren't very frequent travelers.)

I found myself taking a lot of notes as I read it, and there's no doubt that I'll be reading through it again before planning our next trip. If you actually use the tips in this book, it's easy to see how it could pay for itself many times over with just one trip.

I feel whenever I pay $14 for a book, I expect something other than a "Primer" in big print. The tips are items directly for AARP, etc. and really nothing new. I'm sorry I wasted my money! And to think I bought two--one for me and another for a friend! I won't embarrass myself by giving the second book to my friend.