Sam is DoseOfHoliday's Budget Travel Researcher. She's flown Ryanair more times than she'd like to admit, once spent a week in Porto on £280 (including flights), and is convinced the best travel hack is simply booking earlier than feels comfortable. She tests budget strategies, compares booking platforms, and writes the kind of practical advice that saves you money without making your trip worse.
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Cheap flights, £3 dumplings, incredible wine, and one of Europe's most underrated cities. Tbilisi delivers everything a budget traveller dreams about — and almost nobody from the UK has worked it out yet.
Most people spend weeks planning what they'll do in Zanzibar and about 20 minutes thinking about what they need to sort before they leave. That imbalance causes most of the problems. Here's what to actually prepare — visas, money, connectivity, insurance — before you step on the plane.
Seville has all the elements of a great city break — extraordinary architecture, brilliant food, flamenco, and genuinely warm weather in spring and autumn — but still gets overlooked in favour of Barcelona and Madrid. Here's why that makes it better, and how to do it in a weekend.
TikTok's dupe destination trend is one of the smartest things to happen to budget travel in years. Here are six European destination swaps that genuinely deliver the same experience for significantly less money.
Budget travel in 2026 is genuinely good — more affordable destinations, more tools to find deals, more flexibility in how you go. The difference between a stressful budget trip and a brilliant one is almost always planning, not luck. Here's the approach that consistently works.
I've made expensive holiday booking mistakes and I've learned from every one of them. Here's the checklist I actually use — covering flight pricing traps, accommodation location pitfalls, insurance errors, and the tourist tax most people forget to budget for.