Saving Tips – Overseas Holiday

Although I am on a saving campaign, but I still go for overseas holidays around twice a year. You guys may think it will be expensive to get overseas for holidays but actually it is not really expensive. The cost of the holidays can be broken down to several parts

1) Transportation - Air Ticket
For booking of air ticket, you can go to the website like Asia travel and Zuji to search for offers.

2) Hotel Cost
For booking of the hotel, you can go to search for the hotel online. Go for the big budget hotels as their pricing are normally better and the rooms are also quite good.

3) Meal

The first thing that you have to consider when going on overseas holiday is the month that you wish to go. This is the most important consideration. Generally the air-ticket and hotel fees are more expensive during peak period (public holiday/school holiday). By going for holiday during the off peak period, you can easily save up to 50% of the total cost. Generally, we like to go holiday during the holiday period as we will need to apply fewer days of annual leave to go. But by doing so, we are actually incurring more cost for the holiday.

The next thing that you have to consider is the place that you wish to go. Normally certain airline will have special offer for a limited period of time to go to certain place. Those air tickets are normally much cheaper than the air-ticket offer by other airline.

The next time is to choose between budget airline and normal airline. As you know, now there is a lot of budget airline in Singapore (Tiger Airway, Air Asia, etc). The price of the air ticket is normally very cheaper when compared with the normal airline. But for me, I prefer to travel on the big airlines as the seat is normally more spacious (Especially flights that takes several hours). But if the price is around 30% to 50% cheaper and the flight time is less than 2 hours, I will choose budget airline.

My only advice on overseas holiday is to do enough research on the internet. You will be able to get a lot of information online. For have fun going on holidays