#slow travel vs fast travel cost comparison

Introduction Staying in one place can cut transfer costs. Staying away for another two weeks can still make the holiday more expensive. Both can be true, which is why a

Introduction A planner says your trip will cost $1,200. Before using that number, try changing the hotel to a private room, adding checked luggage, and moving the return flight to

Introduction An itinerary can include the beach, the boat trip, and the hotel while leaving out the taxi between them. Ask AI for a daily total and that missing journey

You've saved enough for a holiday, but the shortlist keeps growing. One place has cheap hotels and an expensive flight. Another costs more each day but takes only a few

A cheap room and a few inexpensive meals can make a week in Southeast Asia look easy to budget. Then you add the airport ride, a domestic flight, baggage, and

Your trip looks like it costs $2,000. Then the airline asks for baggage fees, the hotel places a deposit on your card, the airport is an hour from town, and

The question used to be simple. Albania was the dirt-cheap secret; Croatia was the polished, overpriced version of the same thing. That calculation worked when Croatia was still using the

You are on a train to Kanazawa. You have a $35 daily budget. You just spent $12 on lunch. It was good lunch — you are not regretting the food.

You are looking at a hostel dorm bed for $14 a night. It has decent reviews. You are also looking at a private room for $38 — the kind with

You are on the Namba walk, heading toward Dotonbori, with a four-year-old who has been walking for twenty minutes and is starting to slow. Your stroller wheel just made a