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Tips For Inexpensive Family Travel Fun - Take a Trip with Your Kids on a Budget

Family travel is an important part of a child’s growing-up experiences but it can often be the thing that puts the parents’ bank account in the red. Luckily, it doesn’t have to be that way.

You can have fun trips with your family on a regular basis without spending a fortune by sticking to a few simple travel tips that minimize your costs.

• Think about your mode of travel.
  • � If you’ve got seven kids and an SUV, it might be most cost-effective to load them up and then go somewhere that isn’t too harsh on the gas mileage.
  • � If you’ve got one teenager who can listen to an mp3 player for hours on end, you might think about the cheap seats on a bus or train to get you to your travel destination.
• Stick close to home.
  • � People think about going on vacation and they automatically think about the big destinations, be it Disneyland or Hawaiian beaches.
  • � However, there are plenty of unexplored towns in your own backyard which can make for inexpensive travel destinations.
  • � Exploring a new place as a family can be an adventure and it’s really exciting to find out what adventures are within a day’s driving distance from your home
  • � It makes home that much more interesting!
• Sleep cheap.
  • � Hotels are one of the biggest expenditures for family travel so do what you can to find inexpensive places to stay.
  • � Travel to destinations where you have friends or family that would be happy to put you up for a night.
  • � Do some Internet research on kid-friendly hotels where children under a certain age can stay for free.
  • � Or consider camping out in the family tent.
• Eat light.
  • � Food is the other big expenditure on family travel that can cause the budget to go into bank-breaking levels.
  • � Eating out at restaurants and fast food places can get pricey if you’re doing it three times a day just because you’re on vacation.
  • � Stop at the grocery store as soon as you’ve arrived at your travel location to reduce the food costs of your family travel.
• Do free stuff wherever you go.
  • � Vacations tend to involve a lot of time spent finding stuff to do.
  • � That can mean spending money, but it doesn’t have to mean that at all.
  • � Check local newspapers and tourist websites to find the free events and low-admission locations in every city.
  • � There’s plenty of stuff to do in every destination and you don’t have to pay big bucks to do it.
• Plan ahead for the bigger trips.
  • � Okay, so usually you do the close-to-home vacations but you do want your kids to see Mickey Mouse or Honolulu before they grow up.
  • � That’s fine; just know that you can do it a lot cheaper if you plan in advance.
  • � Look for deals, save up your frequent flier miles, and travel in the off-season to avoid spending much money on those bigger trips.

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