By Today I will be sharing MyBreakingViews 10 travel hacks in seeing the world. Come on let’s get into it!
1. Study Exchange.
I can’t say this enough, do a study exchange if you are at uni/college of course. Yes those of you that are in those establishments should have lots of option to do a study exchange. Please do not make any excuses! Just go for it! I had a former friend that had the opportunity to travel abroad whilst at University; she didn’t take this up and now regrets it!
Study exchanges are the absolute best!! And if you ever need advice about going to do a study exchange programme drop me a line.
2. Create a bucket list
I always have a list of countries I would like to travel and as it’s said write your visions down and make it a reality. I recently wrote a post on the importance of visiting a new country every year. Check it out – Make It A Habit To Visit A New Country Yearly.
My bucket list includes me going to at least one country in every continent in the world. Yep, I have said I will do all this before I am 30.
3. Get to know these flight website deals.
There are so many to choose from; PirateHolidays, Secret Escapes, Groupon, Onthebeach, Lastminute.com, Google Flights, Edream and Skyscanner . If I have to pick one, Skyscanner has to be my absolute fave they have recently input a multi-city section which allows you to do more than one city at once – but it only really works in your favour if you are quite open on the dates you want to travel.
If you can kill two birds with one stone and the countries are close by, go for it. I love going to a few places at a time. Just don’t be like my friend who travelled from America to Iceland to Spain. The weather changes required a heavy suitcase. It’s difficult to pack for a number of weathers.
4. Do short breaks
Depending on where you live this may work out really well for you. I personally hate, staying in a country for longer than 5 days if I’m honest with you, I get exhausted and I can’t wait to get back to normality of life. Sad I know but I feel there is only so much you can do for a long period of time and if it’s not going back home (for me Nigeria) I don’t want to be there for too long. Living in the UK helps as you sometimes don’t even need 5 days and short flights mean you can travel during the weekends; if you have a 9-5 like me you will want to utilise the holidays you get.
5. Don’t be shy away from hostels
I’ve stayed in a number of hostels. They were very clean and accommodating. I had some horrible and amazing experiences. The thing with hostels is there is a terrible stigma that they are gross, which in actual fact they are very cheap and can be extremely nice. When travelling in South East Asia I stayed in actually really nice hotels/hostels.
The best websites I used when travelling was Hostels Worldwide.
6. Pack smart
I say this with caution. I originally was going to say pack light, which in essence I did when I was travelling Asia (my friends will lie and say otherwise) LOL . I would say pack smart and only pack what you need. I see people packing things they don’t need a lot of the time and then realising they haven’t taken what they really need. Believe me it’s annoying although I am the biggest culprit in this. Pack for each day and night it’s so much easier that way and if you want to bring things back you have enough room.
7. Sign up to those flight deal newsletters.
I know those deals can become annoying. I was a big lover of Groupon until I realised that 8-10 emails a day was just not cutting it. I do get the occasional flight sales from Ryanair, EasyJet and Onthebeach just because I have booked with them before; they do tend to save me a great deal of money.
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8. Give feedback when due hotels, flights & travels
I don’t know if you know this but this can help if you book with a large organisation like booking.com they work around the world and if you give feedback sometimes you may get discounts on your next hotel booking.
If you book with this link- MyBreakingViews Booking you can get £15 pounds off your first hotel booking!!!!
Every bit helps.
9. Try and know someone in the country you’re visiting.
Do you have a country you would like to go and know someone who lives there? This is not easy for everyone I know, but for me doing my study exchange has given me friends that live around the world. I now have friends that I can stay with when I want to travel.
10. Don’t keep refreshing the website!
When your booking your travels just be sure not to keep refreshing (turning cookies off are a myth in my opinion). If they see someone is interested in buying flights/hotels they will bump up the prices, believe me I’ve seen it happen in less than 5 mins. When 4 of my friends and I booked to go Hong Kong my friends booked their flights before and within 5 mins the flights had increased by $50 Singaporean dollars about £25. I wasn’t impressed.
Do you have any hacks that you could share with me on travelling?
MBV
Ricardo Da Costa
July 24, 2019I liked this post. A different perspective. It’s good that you mentioned some flight website deals as I wasn’t aware of some of them. I myself really do need to treat myself to a quick getaway
Can’t wait to read your new posts
MBV
July 24, 2019Thank you so much for taking the time to have a read – it means so much to me! Please book your next trip; I’m already thinking about my next go away! Happy to help you book your trip if you have a look at my services! *wink wink*