what's up guys it's Alexander travelbum and today we're going over one of the
questions that you guys always ask and that's how to travel cheap I was asked
to do more of a beginner's guide for people who are just getting started so
we're gonna go over some things that a lot of you might know about if you're
seasoned travelers but if you're kind of new to it then hopefully we'll get
something out of this so the first thing my number one thing is to get free
flights with a travel credit card so there are a bunch of credit cards out
there that can really help you out when it comes to getting flights some of them
are actually made for travel there's one that I use that's for travel and it's by
Chase it's the Chase Sapphire reserve and this really isn't the only card
there are other ones out there what happens is you get points on these cards
and then you can use those for travel so for my card the points that I accumulate
they're actually worth more if I use them for travel so I can take it out as
cash if I want to use those points just to take out cash but if I use them for
flights they're worth three times as much and the good thing about the card
that I use the Chase Sapphire reserve is that when you sign up for it you get
bonus points just for signing up so when I signed up it was about a hundred
thousand points and it roughly translated to about $1,000 worth of
flights for free so the next thing is to get a debit card that charges no ATM
fees so you can use these at ATMs all over the world and instead of getting
these fees that you get every time you take out your money
these ones there are no fees and so the one that I use is the Charles Schwab
card so the next thing is free walking tours you can find these all over the
place and main cities and sometimes even smaller cities but these walking tours
are free and you usually just give them a little tip if you want to but it's a
good way to see the city and see everything get a little bit of the
history and the culture and learn about it before you go off on your own and
along those lines is free pub crawls a lot of times if you stay at a hostel you
can find free pub crawls that you can go on and a lot of times they'll provide
free alcohol at least at the beginning and sometimes door
the whole crawl so that's a good time to get drunk on a budget getting free
accommodation with trusted house sitters this is a website where you can
basically house it for people you can watch their cat or their dog or just
watch their house and keep it safe for them sometimes you can stay in one place
for a few days a week or sometimes even a month you can find free accommodation
with couchsurfing I've gone over this many times but couchsurfing really saved
me especially in Europe you can meet locals stay with them make new friends
and stay somewhere for free student discounts if you're a student or you
were a student you can use your card for student discounts at a lot of Tours and
activities and things that you can do all around big cities all around the
world I've never actually used this but I have definitely been with friends and
people that I met along the way that did have these and they always get in for
much cheaper than me hitchhiking this isn't for everybody but it is a lot
safer than people think it is I did this a little bit in Europe recently and
every experience was great and it's free and you can get from point A to point B
instead of buying a flight which could cost you a hundred two hundred or more
or a train trip or a bus trip just try hitchhiking and it's free and sometimes
you meet locals sometimes you can even stay with them it's a great way to go i
highly recommend at least trying it once in your life next is look for budget
transportation deals recently i was in europe and i saw that there were some
deals for example if you're going to europe flix bus is a really cheap bus
company they're actually all over the world but in europe they have a deal
five trips for a hundred euros so you pay a hundred euros up front and then
you get codes for a bus trip from one country to another or one city to
another so what you do is you use these for the longer trips so that you save
money that way and if you have a shorter trip you don't really want to use one of
your Belcher codes for that because it might cost 10 euros or 20 euros but if
you're going say from Italy to France or Belgium and that trip alone
on a bus we probably cost over a hundred euros and you're getting that as one of
your five trips all for a hundred euros you can try your rail getting a Eurail
pass while you're in Europe I did that my first time and that saved me a lot of
money and then there is blahblah car blahblah car it's basically ride-sharing
and you can find really cheap deals because it's somebody who's travelling
from one city to another and they're gonna pay for it anyway but this is a
way for them to make a little bit extra cash so you can find sometimes just
throw them five bucks and you can get in their car and go across the country we
did this a few times in Europe and it was amazing the next is pretty obvious
but travel to budget destinations please like Southeast Asia India South America
if you travel in a budget destination then you can travel a lot longer and you
can do more things you can try more food meet more people do more activities
because a lot of things are going to cost much less than if you're traveling
say in Europe eat the street food this is gonna depend where you are in the
world but places like Asia and you can find street food from half a dollar to
you know a couple dollars for a full meal and if you're in a place where the
street food is good also India don't be afraid of it you should try it there are
chances that you couldn't get a little tummy ache you could get a little sick
yeah it does happen but you have to try these things you have to live a little
you're most likely not gonna die from it I've gotten a couple little stomach
issues but nothing that didn't heal within a few days the next is to cook
for yourself or eat food from grocery stores grocery stores pretty much always
have the cheapest food unless there's cheap street food and if you're in an
air B&B or a hostel that has kitchen then cooking for yourself is one of the
best ways to travel on a budget so the next thing this is a little different
this is going to change the way that you travel but you can work abroad you can
do things like a pair I've met a lot of girls that do this mostly girls and
that's a good way to make your money and have a place to stay you
can be a bartender in a lot of these countries if you speak English really
well they might want you in some of the tourist bars you can do hostel work
sometimes you don't make money but you usually get free room and board so you
have a place to stay and you're not spending any money but you get to stay
somewhere for a little bit of work and then on your days off or your nights off
you get to explore the place I've met people who were waiters and waitresses
you can be a dive instructor it actually doesn't take that long to get certified
and become an instructor I met a lot of people in Bali Indonesia who are doing
this and they love their life they just hang out at the beach all day and I
seemed pretty good to me when I was there I might look into it you can be a
tour guide this also takes a little bit of time but you could definitely figure
this out and if you're a native English speaker or very good in English then
this is definitely a good way to go you can work at a cruise ship I've met
people doing this and I've read many articles about people who work on cruise
ships they're constantly looking for people to do this and it's a good way to
not only travel one country but probably travel multiple and sail the seas the
next thing I'm sure you've heard of is to teach English a lot of Asian
countries this is a huge thing to do but really all over the world you can do
this if you're American or Australian English you know fluent in English and
it's your native language they're always looking for people and you can
definitely find a way to do this stay in that country and make a little bit of
money and then after you're done with your job maybe in a year you can travel
with that money a little bit more the next thing is to work online there are a
ton of websites it's 2018 and there are a lot of websites where you can find
work online even if you don't have a lot of skills you can go to fiverr.com fiver
I'm a key making videos of my travels and you can make a little bit of money
doing that up work another site where you can do kind of freelance work and
then Craigslist people are always looking for people to do the odd job and
Craigslist is a great place to do that and to find these things while you're
traveling the next thing is whoof worldwide organic farming something but
you can join that and you can stay on a farm do a little farming you have a
place to stay and sometimes you can stay there for a month up to I think I've
seen three months and it's a really good way to really get to know the place that
you are and stay for a longer period of time if you have any budget travel tips
or things that you've done in order to travel longer better cheaper then leave
a comment below because I'd like to see that and share with everybody else in
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