Must Know Tips To Save Money On Holidays

Travel trips are exciting but these surely come with a price tag and to ensure that one enjoys to the maximum on a holiday, the amount of money spent is directly proportional to the fun & lavishness. Well, I am not suggesting to not spend money on travel because I absolutely love traveling and feel that although money is spent on a trip but eventually what we earn by traveling cannot be compensated with any amount of money!

Save Money On Holidays

So basically, today’s post is about some essential tips which are actually very important for everyone to be aware of, so as to avoid unnecessary expenses while holidaying. Here we go!

Planning Ahead

Planning Ahead

Well, this is something females are often given charge of so girls, show your talent and plan out the travel trip well in advance so that the last-minute planning doesn’t burn your wallet and all the plans of saving while holidaying get wasted in one go! Scheduling & Planning the travel and stay much before will leave you with ample options to spend the money on other attractions of the destination and not only on the bookings of flights & hotels!

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Travel in Off- Season

Travel in Off- Season

Well, this is probably the easiest way to save your bucks when holidaying! Yes, some people might consider it your misery but I am sure you know what to say to those mean people as you are spending your money and you have all the right to use it wisely and yes let those mean people bugger off while you plan an off-season holiday!

Travel Packages

Another way to reduce your holiday expenses is to buy an affordable tour package in which departure, arrival & staying facility is there in an affordable & negotiable price range! Not to mention flooding & sightseeing in the travel package.

Avoid Expensive Stay

Expensive Stay

One way to solve the problem of finances while traveling is to avoid staying in very expensive hotels & resorts for that matter. It is all up to you that you want to enjoy the holiday with a peaceful mind so that when you return back home, there is no constant pressure to manage the finances drastically because in that case, the trip won’t turn out to be a memorable one! It would be scary, to be honest!

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Use Public Transport

Public Transport

There is absolutely no shame in traveling by public transport and if anyone emphasizes much on these petty things, just ignore them and go ahead to enjoy your holiday! Public transport is much cheaper than the private means of transport and ensures that you have a pleasant stay without adding the expenses incurred during the holidays!

I hope you agree with the above points and consider them to be useful ways to save spending totally irrelevant expenses while on a relaxed holiday! And last but not the least, traveling on a budget is not a bad thing at all because it is all you who will be going to manage traveling plus your work and also gain amazing travel experiences without spending heaps of money! Well, I guess you are earning more than spending in any way!! 🙂

Posted by Ashish Thapliyal

Ashish Thapliyal is a Senior Tour Manager at Pilgrimage Tour India and one of India's most experienced pilgrimage travel specialists, with 18 years of dedicated service in sacred tourism. A proud native of Uttarakhand — the Devbhoomi — he grew up surrounded by the Garhwal Himalayas and has undertaken the Char Dham Yatra personally multiple times, giving him rare first-hand knowledge of Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri that goes far beyond guidebooks.

Ashish holds the title of Acharya from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi — one of India's most prestigious centres of Vedic scholarship — with deep grounding in Hindu scripture, ritual traditions, and pilgrimage philosophy. This academic foundation, combined with nearly two decades of practical tour management, makes him uniquely qualified to guide pilgrims both spiritually and logistically.

Over his 18-year career at Pilgrimage Tour India, Ashish has personally planned and managed 200+ pilgrimage tours covering Char Dham Yatra, 12 Jyotirlinga circuits, Ayodhya Ram Mandir, Varanasi & Kashi Vishwanath, Puri Jagannath, Rameshwaram, and international pilgrimages to Nepal and Sri Lanka. He has helped thousands of pilgrims — from first-time travellers and senior citizens to NRI families visiting from the USA, UK, UAE, Canada, and Australia — complete their sacred journeys safely and meaningfully.

His writing on the Pilgrimage Tour blog focuses on making India's ancient pilgrimage traditions accessible to modern travellers. He covers temple history, Char Dham opening and closing dates, trekking conditions, altitude health advice, puja rituals, VIP darshan tips, packing guides, and practical planning advice based on real on-ground experience. He writes in both English and Hindi.

Ashish is based at the Pilgrimage Tour India head office in New Delhi and is reachable via WhatsApp at +91 8826094899.

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