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Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune: The Contrarian Traveler's Guide to Getting More for Less
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #184167 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08-11
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 226 pages
Customer Reviews
Well Worth the (Low) Cost
This book is certainly worth the (low) cost. Many books of this type are a laundry list of simplistic ideas. This book goes beyond that and offers solid advice. Not Nobel prize winners, but ones taken from good experience. While reading the book, I applied a couple ideas to 2 upcoming trips and cumulatively saved nearly 20 times the cost of the book (and I was already pretty good at finding deals online).
The author certainly makes one feel better about the contrarian approach. He has inspired me to widen my horizons even further (I have to get my wife to read this book!).
Travel doesn't have to cost the earth
Travel doesn't have to cost the earth. If you want to stretch the travel time without compromising on the experiences, reading this excellent primer by Tim Leffel could be just the ticket. In fact, travel at a cheaper rate often boosts the chances of meaningful encounters and experiences on the road. Leffel points you toward destinations that offer fine quality at low rates, and shares his secrets for getting more bang for your buck in a host of other areas. A dozen other authors and experts weigh in with money-saving tips--from which side of Fiji to head for, to apartment exchanges--to dining in markets to sample great food.
This concise book is packed with down-to-earth advice on money-saving strategy. The thing is, even if you just pick up two or three really useful ideas from this book, then it has paid for itself--and a lot more besides. And Leffel knows the ropes: he is editor of a gritty online magazine called Perceptive Travel. Highly recommended for the savvy traveller.
Helpful to some
For those who still book package tours and allow other people to make their travel plans for them, this book will be helpful. For those who use the internet to plan their own travel, it offers less. It's a bit long on cute anecdotes and short on solid practical information.
