tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016686104380037838.post5286245004676973373..comments2024-03-19T04:41:22.077-07:00Comments on Tightwad Travel: How to Plan Your Own Trip – And Save a Bundle!Druhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08986845134268444777noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016686104380037838.post-222892341974912862009-11-05T10:54:28.010-08:002009-11-05T10:54:28.010-08:00Thanks for the compliment! I enjoy your website, ...Thanks for the compliment! I enjoy your website, too, (See the link on my blog.) and think it fills a need for the traveler who cannot stay a week in one place, yet wants accommodations that are unique and relatively inexpensive.<br /><br />I'm delighted to know that you plan trips, whether they actually happen sooner--or later--as we do. There's no better way, I think, to "know" a place than by searching for accommodations or plotting a walking tour. <br /><br />I hope you'll savor your proposed trip to the Baltic Islands, St. Petersburg, and Helsinki right now and enjoy it later when you actually get there!Druhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08986845134268444777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016686104380037838.post-79476083661320949842009-11-04T17:10:26.857-08:002009-11-04T17:10:26.857-08:00Your post captured so much of how we approach trav...Your post captured so much of how we approach traveling these days. We spend months planning trips - it's an activity we love to do. We sometimes plan trips we don't even take. Right now we have three books out from the library on the Baltic countries, St. Petersburg, and Helsinki. Maybe we'll take that trip next summer. Maybe we won't. But we love to plan it - and if it doesn't happen next summer, then it' ll happen another time. And along the way, we love reading about a part of the world we've never visited. <br /><br />As far as accommodations go, we have never rented apartments because we rarely stay in cities for a whole week. We live in NYC, so we don't feel we need to spend our whole vacation in another large city. Many of our friends do house swaps, which is the ultimate in saving money, but we rent - so it's not really feasible for us. Instead, we spend hours looking for cool small hotels or b&b's that fit our budget - it becomes an obsession of sorts - which is one reason why we started our website. Now that we have a four year old boy, it's even more of a challenge - but we make it work. <br /><br />BTW, congrats on the compliment in Frommer's. It's well deserved!darngooddigshttp://www.darngooddigs.comnoreply@blogger.com