Take it from someone who made Mexico his adopted home after vacationing in the country since 2003: you can definitely travel Mexico on the cheap if you know the right steps. Mexico only got upgraded to a full chapter of the fifth edition of The World’s Cheapest Destinations because when the peso is not near…
Most travelers, moneyed or budget, come into Mexico via Cancun, Mexico City, or Puerto Vallarta. For the first and third options, you probably won’t want to stick around there too long if you’re traveling on the cheap. There are greener pastures—or perhaps I should say brighter beaches—down the road. So if you head to PV…
Kick back wherever you are sheltering and travel with us from Kenya to Rapa Nui, from Italy to the waters of Scandinavia. Back in March and April, we stopped publishing new material from Perceptive Travel, instead doing a Salute to the Guides issue and one called You Weren’t Going to Go There Anyway. Those were…
The rules are always in flux and the game can change at the margins, but I’ve been earning free airline tickets for more than two decades now. In some ways, it’s even easier now to get free flights than it was when I started. Around a year ago, before we had vaccines in arms, I…
If you’re tired of spending everything you earn on the monthly bills, you could chop them by a huge percentage if you switch to Cambodia living costs instead. How do these expenses for the cost of living in Cambodia compare to yours? A two-bedroom apartment with a pool for $400 per month, a $5 massage…
When you go cycling in Europe, especially in a country like the Czech Republic or Germany, it’s easy to stop off for a beer in a nice town when your legs need a break. That kind of culture and convenience isn’t so common in the car-happy USA, but you won’t have any trouble ordering a…
What articles on cheap travel places, budget travel tips, and living abroad were you checking out the past 12 months? In a normal year, the most popular posts on this Cheapest Destinations Blog are a healthy mix of traveling well on a budget, lessons learned from traveling internationally, and updates on living abroad. There…
The latest issue of Perceptive Travel is out now, with one story from me about what I was doing in the last February before the lockdowns: skiing in Idaho. This is a narrative on my time exploring eight different ski resorts in the southern half of the state, all within a few hours of either…
After a decade of reverse immigration to Mexico by retirees and rising home prices in North America, can you still find a cheap beach house in Mexico to buy? In most of the places you have probably heard of, not really, but if you know where to look, there are plenty of Mexican beach house…
As I write this, Europe is opening up to vaccinated travelers after a long tourism drought, so I thought it would be time to highlight one of the best values on the continent that doesn’t get all that many vacationing visitors: Slovakia. The country has been in the last two editions of my book The…
