Shoulder Season Steals: Top Spots for Off-peak Travel
Take a trip in high season and you might have to contend with eye-watering prices and suffocating crowds – and while low season might bag you a bargain, poor weather and closed attractions could derail the best of plans.
The budget travel sweet spot? Shoulder season. For beautiful beaches, wildlife
watching, winter sports, underwater pursuits, and city breaks, Lonely Planet identifies the shoulder season
hotspots.
11 Ways to Prevent Identity Theft While Traveling In the 21st century, you are as much at risk of having your identity stolen - or more accurately your financial and digital identity - as you are of getting mugged. Sleeping on Planes: Top Tips for Travelers If you struggle to get some shuteye each time you take to the air, you’re not alone — but choosing the right seat, bringing the right gear and making a few small changes in your flying habits could help you sleep better on your next flight. From Independent Traveler, here are travel-tested tips for sleeping on planes.
Looking for tours, cruises, and other travel products - without a huge single supplement?
The Solo Travel Deals Page Don't forget to check out our Solo Travel Deals page before planning your solo trip. You may just find exactly what you need there at a great price.
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Less Tracking, More Traveling Nobody wants to worry about money while travelling, but we all do. Tracking your finances is a simple way to get some freedom from this financial anxiety. The Trail Wallet app is designed to help you organize
your expenses by trip or by month, set yourself a daily budget, then easily add expenses as you go. You can get all the details and download the app here.
The Solo Traveler Accommodation Guide We've added new listings to the ever-popular Solo Traveler Accommodation Guide. Containing recommendations for hotels, hostels, B&Bs, and inns around the world - all vetted by solo travelers - the Guide helps you find, review, and book a room all in one
place.
Pics of the Week are contributed by members of the Solo Travel Society on
Facebook. Every week on Solo Traveler we publish a travel photo submitted by a member of the Solo Travel
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photos any time, along with a caption telling us where it was taken. Click on last month's photos below to get the full effect and see where they were taken.
Travel Money Tuesdays Travel Farther, Longer, & More Often
You have consistently told us that money is the main reason you don't travel more. To the rescue: Travel Money Tuesdays! Every week, we will bring you tips and advice to help you travel more, better, and more often. Travel Money Tuesdays--because the best things in life aren't things.
The research says travel. To get more happiness
travel. It’s simple. And here are 7 posts that will help you do so.
We heard you! Many readers over 69 wrote us to complain about travel insurance for seniors, so we did some research. Here’s what we found.
Here’s what solo travelers should look for in travel insurance including the one benefit that’s
most important for those of us who travel alone.
You can always save a bit here and a bit there on travel. But you can really SAVE on shoulder season travel. Here are our top tips.
Top Posts on Solo Traveler Last Month
Have you traveled solo to a destination you loved? Why not submit a Solo Travel Destination Post? Every Thursday, we publish a story on Solo Traveler that has been contributed by a reader. You can browse through them on our Destinations page and submit your story and photos here.
Here are
our top five posts from July.
Alone for the holidays? Our readers and other sources recommend 35 solo travel destinations for Christmas and New Years.
The magical meeting of Sofia and Antonio in Italy’s Umbrian hills stands out as one of
my best travel days ever. It was an experience for all my senses.
A bit of research can really pay off for solo travelers who enjoy the culinary side of their trips. Here are my best tips for food and wine travel planning.
Leave a little room for spontaneity in your travel plans and you could end up in Dubrovnik. Here’s how I spent two days in the old, walled
city.
It is as important to respect our commitments to work, family, and friends as it is to honor our commitments to fulfilling our own solo travel dreams.
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