Talk:Budget travel

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Budget travel vs Zero-budget travel

The scope of this article is very divergent. The average traveller could use the advice for multi-use transit tickets and hostels, the paragraphs about finding food in the rubbish bin or sleeping in the street, seem a bit extreme. We could focus on mainstream advice here, and move the hard-core saving tips to a new article named zero-budget travel or similar. /Yvwv (talk) 17:00, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

An extraction of the most radical advice is done at minimum budget travel. Let's see if it amounts to a useful article. /Yvwv (talk) 14:33, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Single-use cameras

I do not think we should promote single-use cameras here. The ones I know have very limited capacity, and on a journey you do not know when you have the most fascinating view, so you want to be able to take many pictures. I suppose a used film camera can be had for not much more than the single-use one, the quality is probably much better even for cheap ones, and film should be on sale in more places than a replacement single-use camera. --LPfi (talk) 12:44, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Good point. /Yvwv (talk) 11:47, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

To do

• Move non-financial advice about cycling to a more suitable article
• How to find a reasonably cheap hotel
• Border shopping /Yvwv (talk) 12:54, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

I think border tourism might easily become its own article or maybe a section in border crossing Hobbitschuster (talk) 12:58, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Nearly all of the advice on cycling here is financial or integrated with financial arguments. On the other hand Financial issues are relevant also for traveller on a less tight budget, and none of the advice here is really radical. I think one should first add points that are missing from the other articles, and try to develop them into a good structure. Only then is it easy to see what points are easily found in those articles and what should be repeated here. --LPfi (talk) 13:56, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Comparing the get around subsections, the section on biking seems about the right length. I think cutting down on it is not a priority. Redundant info could of course be removed for things not yet said. --LPfi (talk) 14:02, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

How to have a high-end vacation on a budget

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/travel/luxury-vacation-for-less.html —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:50, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Questionable additions at Budget travel / Minimum budget travel

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Just look at their revision histories. I have thus far reverted, but would like to step away from this and would like an additional set of eyeballs. To me those additions seem very clearly not in line with our way of writing travel content, but I could not very well put it into words or policies... Certainly the linking to aggregators is at the very least a grey area and probably more in the realm of "frowned upon"... Hobbitschuster (talk) 21:53, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Doesn't look great to me either. I can see the user's intent, but it's a bit sweeping and the grammar/writing really leaves stuff to be desired. Good revert, would've made it if I were the one on Recent Changes. Vaticidalprophet (talk) 23:07, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Flightnavigator has now made quite a strong accusation in an edit summary: "If you want to start a discussion, you can do so on the Talk page. I have the right to add helpful content for the travellers. And I will so as long as you call my content "stuff". Are you working for the tourism industry in a high price country?" Vaticidalprophet (talk) 01:09, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. It can be frustrating for new users to see their edits reverted. I notice no one has actually taken time out to explain to him our policy against using aggregators. A message on his user talk page might help him understand why he's being reverted. Hopefully he'll be gracious about it, and let's wait to see if he is before we start getting confrontational. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 02:24, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Agree with Andre, here. SHB2000 (talk) 05:24, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Full disclosure, I worked for an airport pre-pandemic and plan to do so again, but I can't see how that's in any way relevant. Hobbitschuster (talk) 12:22, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

FYI: Vacation alternatives for the budget-conscious

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/travel/affordable-vacation-alternatives.html —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:33, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

We present some of the ideas in Budget travel, although not with such examples. We should probably include a few paragraphs on the theme (why is there nothing about local travel and travelling more seldom and staying longer instead?) also in Responsible travel. –LPfi (talk) 11:21, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

The GDP column of Retiring_abroad/Table has one indicator of costs for various countries. Should this be linked from other articles? Generalised in some way to make it more useful for folk other than retirees? Pashley (talk) 14:11, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Retiring abroad, local wealth and the associated cost of living can be a good approximation on your own cost of living there (with some biasing issues dealt with in the article). For the tourist, costs of transport and lodging often dominate, and the correlation between those and local approximate wealth is less clear (this was discussed in the context of the Nordic countries a few years ago). A problem shared with those moving abroad for a long time, is that low prices for services often correlate with a need to care about security, with associated costs (considered in the table through the GPI and SPI indexes). There is valuable information in the table, but I am not sure it is easily used in other articles. –LPfi (talk) 10:59, 7 June 2022 (UTC)