Family-Friendly Microwave Meals you can make in your Hotel Room can help you save money while traveling. Family Travel Hacking can help you earn some great free stays at hotels but they often do not come with kitchens. This microwavable food can help cut your food budget while traveling. You can also check out Healthy…
Category: Other Ways to Save on Travel
While Traveling Hacking has proven to be the most fruitful way for us to save on travel there are many ways to save on or for Travel.
Shopping Portals
Shopping portals are a very easy way to earn free cash or points. A Shopping portal is simply a website you go to before heading to the store site you want to shop from. They collect data and in return, you get free cashback or points. Rakuten is one of the most popular shopping portals. Don’t forget you can use Shopping portals to earn points on your travel spending when you book hotels directly from some brand name hotels or from sites like Expedia or Viator.
Free Activities Museum Passes & Reciprocity Programs
There’s tons of Free Activities you can do when you travel that can help you cut down on costs. Landmarks and Architecture, Hiking, history or brining your own sports equipment are great ways to enjoy free activities where ever you travel.
In addition, there’s various ways to save on activities including free museum passes or passed through a reciprocity program
The ASTC Museum Reciprocity Program is a program in which a group of museums agree to allow other museum members free entry. You sign up and pay for 1 museum membership (usually a local one) and can use it at hundreds of museums around the world. We were able to pick up a participating museum pass for only $100 for our family of 4 and it covered museum visits for a full year. Those who work, live or go to school in New York State can also enjoy free museums with the New York Free Museum Pass
Budget Family Spring Activities Bucket List
This Budget Family Spring Activities Bucket List is fun whether you are home or away. These spring activities are sure to be a blast and light on your wallet. If you are looking for more to do check out these great budget summer activities for home or away. 1. Run around in a Down Pour…
Budget Healthy Road Trip Food for Families
Budget Healthy Road Trip Food for Families exist. Eat Healthy on the Road while Traveling with Kids isn’t easy, but it is possible. There’s a lot of health food for road trips that are kid friendly too. It is possible to eat healthy and cheap on a road trip. It doesn’t have to cost a…
Family Travel Hacking: Shopping Portals Earn FREE Travel
Shopping portals is a way to earn money and/or points through on-line shopping. You simply sign into the portal, find the store you want to shop and click. The site takes you to the store’s site that you want to shop. It tracks your purchases and in return you get rewarded. For more Tips and…
A list of the Best ASTC Passport Museums
ASTC Passport is a Museum Reciprocity Program allows you to purchase a museum membership to one museum and use it at museums around the country. Even around the world. It can save you a lot of money and easily make your money back on the first or second visit. If you are looking at the…
How to use Rakuten Ebates to Earn MR points
You can use Rakuten Ebates to Earn MR points. Ebates gives you cash back every time you shop the stores you love, on-line. Now with ebates you can earn Member rewards points instead of cash. I love ebates. It’s so easy to use. Just remember to go to ebates before any of your on-line shopping….
Free Museum Pass for NYS Residents, Workers, and Students
Would you love a Free Museum Pass? Did you know if you live, work or go to school in NYS you can get a New York Public Library Card? The NYS Public Library has so many resources including access to museums for free.To obtain one go to New York Public Library. The Public Library Card…
Eating Out of Your Suitcase: Portable Travel Food
Eating Out of Your Suitcase is simply bringing portable travel food with you. Can I pack a suitcase full of food? You Bet. We did this for 2 trips to Atlantis Bahamas so save a lot on their over priced resort food. There are limitations to what you can pack when traveling to some countries…
Use Rakuten to Save on Travel
Rakuten which used to be called ebates, is a shopping portal that gives you cashback when buying everyday items through the stores you normally shop online. You simply go to Rakuten.com, log on search the store/company you want to shop and it takes you to their website but tracks your purchases to provide you with…