You love bargains and you love travel? You are a prime candidate for learning the best travel hacks in the business, and Bustle.com has some tips just for you.
"If you're short on time, these are a good way to help you get started on nabbing the best possible travel for the least amount of money and maximum convenience," writes JR Thorpe.
Thorpe's first piece of advice - before even getting to the tips - is to watch out.
"If something seems too good to be true, be on your guard, and never give out financial details to somebody who seems to be offering a travel experience or discount that's 'off the books' or 'under the table.' You need to travel safely as well as within budget," Thorpe says.
So for his first actual tip, he says to book flights around 54 days in advance for the most savings.
"This is an interesting one: it's based on a survey by CheapFlights.com, who looked at 1.3 billion air fares for 3 million trips over the course of 2015 and came up with the magic number of 54," Thorpe reports.
Another suggestion is to change your point of sale on airline tickets, a hack made famous on Huffington Post.
"If you're flying from America, booking the flight as if you're located in, say, Italy at the time of purchase alters its price. The reality is that the point of sale of an airline ticket can substantially affect its price; a domestic French flight will likely cost less if booked from "Paris" (even if you're in a dorm room in NYC) than it would if booked from America," Thorpe says.
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Skiplagged is another site that helps you score lower airfares.
"Skiplagged uses a key hack for flights: it's often more expensive to get a direct flight to a destination than to get one that stops off there en route, on its way somewhere else," writes Thorpe.
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