Are there any pitfalls when booking a budget vacation?
There are a lot of pitfalls when booking a budget vacation destination. In fact, there are a lot of pitfalls when you book anything. First of all, you need to make sure that if you've purchased an airline ticket and there's any doubt about whether you can make this flight, that it is a refundable ticket. If you end up not using the ticket, you want to make sure that you can get your money back. The other thing that you need to watch out for are additional fees that might be added on. For example, given the price of gasoline of late, there are plenty of places that are adding on a fuel surcharge. That might be for an airline or it might be the shuttle company that picks you up. When you get to your hotel, you need to make sure that you're not being charged some unusual fees, things like the mini bar re-stocking fee which can add as much as ten dollars to your hotel bill. Hotels are sometimes adding surcharges for energy because the cost of energy has gone up so much. These are all things that can eat away at your vacation budget. The other thing that you need to take into account when you're thinking about budgets and vacations is all those costs that you really don't factor in. For example, tips to the bellman and tips to the housekeeping people can really add up. When you're making your vacation budget, you need to be sure that you include those in there so that they're not a big surprise for you.
