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The budget issue | | | |
| Champagne for the price of a beer | | | | Just because your wallet's got more breathing space than you might like, it doesn't mean you can't live it like a Rockefeller.
Hit the slopes with the fattest cats with this guide to budget skiing, lounge with the cashed-up on the Riviera, visit Jerusalem with money to spare or get custom-made suits for a song in Vietnam.
You can even live it up in Vegas if you follow this guy's clever example.
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| Shoestring travel guides
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| Cheap eats, cheap seats and cheap sleeps | | | | If you can keep your accommodation low-cost, your thrills cheap and your food not-so-fancy, you can make your travels both epic and affordable.
Why not buy your chow at the local market, learn the art of the haggle, and discover the cheapest ways to get from A to B? We've also got tips on how to travel around Europe on a student budget and stay in New York on a shoestring, not to mention the top 10 budget rail journeys. But if you want the biggest bargain, sign up for a side-serve of theatre when you buy a banana pancake on the streets of Thailand.
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| Staff tips:
Cheapest meal on the road?
'The classic New York pretzel from a street cart - doughy, salty, filling, costs a bit under a buck and you can eat it on the hoof. Mmm, carby.'
- Jane, Lonely Planet staffer .
Cheapest sleep you ever had?
I was hitch-hiking around Ireland with my sleeping bag. I often slept in cemeteries because the Irish are very superstitious and they were deserted at night, but the most deluxe berths were the gardens of stately homes, using ancient copper beech trees as umbrellas.
- Rose, Lonely Planet staffer
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| | | The travel bug's got you by the throat and the wallet moth's flapping in your face. How to proceed? First step is to get out of the cash-draining high-life hot-spots and into those 'pizza-maker' destinations - the ones that stretch your dough. Let's hear it for Bolivia! Give it up for Bulgaria!
Second step is a budget - eh, we know, but some canny tips from the experts and the experience of the long-haul travel community might just save your 5-dollar ass. And if you really find yourself stuck, you can always get some financial traction with the grand tradition of the working holiday. It doesn't have to be all bar work and nannying - how about teaching English to monks in Laos?
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| Compass Competition
To win one of five copies of Lonely Planet's Southeast Asia on a Shoestring guide, tell us in which country you would find:
- Angkor Wat
- Wat Phu Champasak
- Lau Pa Sat
Email your answers by 31 July.
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| | | Since this issue is all about yanking in those purse strings, what sort of people would we be if we didn't pony up with some discounts?
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| | | Alright, that's enough. You've lived on lentils, you've slept in airports, you've scrooged and hoarded...and what has it got in its pocketses? A bit of spare change! Must be time for a right-royal, seven-star, don't-spare-the-horses blow-out! Oh, can't you just taste the gold leaf on your $182-dollar burger? Can't you just feel the flooding of your pleasure centres as you belly up to Europe's longest champagne bar? It's enough to wear you out - but never fear. A soak in a seven-foot-wide bathtub will soon pep you up.
| | Beds-R-Us
We've supersized our Hotels & Hostels accommodation service so you've now got thousands more places to choose from, in more destinations than ever. We've got beds for just a few dollars a night (plus plenty to suit an indulgent impulse). You can check out the reviews and book a bed there and then.
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