10 Budget Friendly Travel Sites You Should Bookmark

10 Budget Friendly Travel Sites You Should Bookmark


From The New York Times

People managed to travel quite well before the Internet came along, although how they did it is now shrouded in mystery. There are so many websites to help you plan trips and book trips and fantasize about trips and (best of all) save money on trips that the difficulty is not finding a site that will help you but choosing from among the bounty.

It’s been a while since I updated the bookmarks you’ll find next to the articles on the Frugal Traveler blog page, so I’ve decided to add a bunch more, ranging from the indispensable to the just-for-fun.

Here is a selection of 10 that you should consider bookmarking.

1. Dishtip.com

Though if I had to pick just one site to help with restaurant recommendations around the globe, it would be Chowhound. DishTip organizes the world of eating out in the United States a whole new way: By clam chowder. Or turkey sandwich. Or blueberry pie. In other words, by single dish, not by restaurant. The site sorts through reviews across the web, figures out what has been raved about, aggregates its findings and spits out rankings of the best dishes in Denver or the pizzas in Portland or the fried food in Phoenix.

Read more at The New York Times


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