HOW TO TRAVEL ROUND THE WORLD ON A BUDGET

As cheesy as the quote might seem, it is actually very true. Imagine having lived a life void of travel and adventure with no wanderlust stories to tell. As travel enthusiasts, we shudder at the thought.

We also understand that money is one of the key factors when it comes to travelling, that’s why we are sharing how Monet of THE TRAVELLING CHILD travels around the world with her family.

Here is what she has to say;

‘Two of the questions I am asked most is “What do we do for a living?” and “How do we afford to travel so much?” and while I do respond to these inquires individually I have been avoiding writing a post on it. The reason is because I know how things can come across over the Internet and I never want anyone to misconstrue my words or take them the wrong way. With that said, I feel it’s time to address these questions, but before I begin please know I don’t mean to come off in a condescending way or offend anyone. This is my family’s truth and I don’t expect anyone else to live the way we do but this is how we manage to travel “so much”.

HOW WE AFFORD TO TRAVEL

Dedicated Vacation Savings Account;

The number one way we afford to travel is with a dedicated vacation savings account for travel. Each month we set aside an established amount to go into our travel fund, that way when a flight deal comes up we have the cash to pay for it.

Book Flight Deals and We Are Flexible With Dates;

We are able to afford travel by only purchasing flight deals. Instead of picking where and when we want to go somewhere, we let flight deals dictate where we will go. Skyscanner is our favorite website! It allows you to enter dates you can travel, your home airport, and then will tell you the cheapest places you can do during that time. It also work where you enter your home airport and where you want to go and it will tell you the cheapest dates to travel there.

Use Frequent Flier Miles to Pay for Flights;

As we only book flight deals we aren’t airline loyal however, we still have frequent flier accounts with multiple airlines. Airlines belong to alliances so you can pool are your points from airlines in one alliance to one specific airline that you find yourself flying more often. As an example on our recent trip to Europe we flew Virgin Atlantic there and Air France back- they are both apart of Skyteam and so is Delta Airlines. Since we fly Delta the most out of those 3 I had all our miles earned from those flights added to our Delta Skymiles account balance. The three alliances are Skyteam, OneWorld, and Star Alliance.

Use Airbnb to Afford Travel;

We rarely stay in hotels (we do in the Caribbean as we like to be on the beach) and typically opt to stay in vacation homes such as rentals through Airbnb. They are cheaper, give us more space for the kids to run around, and come equipped with a full kitchen allowing up to cook some meals while on vacation saving us from eating out for our entire trip.

You can read more of the tips she shared HERE and remember,

“We have nothing to lose and a world to see.”