Feeling depressed because I just did a more realistic budget calculation for a March trip to Spain. B/w the need for refundable flight and hotels (I normally do airbnb and don’t care about refundable flights, and I don’t have enough miles and can only get us partial coverage at 1 hotel out of 2) plus covid tests, the trip is about $1000-2000 more/pp than I anticipated. I don’t think my SO’s gonna want to spend the money to go..Should probs look into backup intl locations 😭

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Go to mexico city. Similar experience as spain for less cost.

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SO has travel restrictions due to work and can’t go there 😕 so was mostly looking at Europe.

Huzzah! Thanks to the SO and advice on here, we made some budgetary changes and I was able to reduce the budget range by $400-600. Had to sacrifice a day in Barca to do so buuut it’ll be worth it to enjoy El Clasico and not be stressed catching the flight home. Crisis averted 😅🙈

Edit: also now that I reread the post and after doing some research last night, the trip was only like $700-1000 over what’s typical (though still much higher than what we’d like to spend) so the reduction was actually impactful haha. Just forgot how much it is to travel to W. Europe for 2 weeks, esp. during covid.

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Not sure about what prices look like, but check out Malta!

I’ll take a look. Have always wanted to go to greece

Airbnb has a ton of options with refundable policies!

You’re right. They do full cancellations now. Thank you covid lol

I heard Hostels are really nice in Europe!

With flights, I’ve only seen this work a few times but haven’t done this enough to know if it applies to every airline, but… you can try to go to the airport and book your tickets at the desk of the specific airline you’re considering. Chances are, buying it there will cut out a lot of online fees and stuff like that and should give you somewhat of a discount compared to booking them online.

Also a bit risky but you can wait until the last minute to book flights since they might be cheaper.

Lol I am waaaaaay too old for hostels.

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