Wednesday, October 7, 2009

How to Travel Solo for Less - Travel - FOXNews.com


How to Travel Solo for Less - Travel - FOXNews.com: "As a solo traveler your money-saving strategy need not involve sleeping with a stranger."


What I mean, of course, is that if you want to curb your lodging costs when you hit the road alone, your options aren’t limited to permitting your tour company or cruise line to match you with a roommate.


If for you traveling solo means always having a private room as well as partaking of your destination’s best food and other offerings, you can save some dough despite being on your own, and because of it.

Avoid the single supplement.

Most tour companies, cruise lines, resorts, and hotels price their rooms based on per person, double occupancy (PPDO). This means that if you want to sleep in a double-occupancy room solo, as you know from staying in most U.S. hotels, you’ll pay the same rate as couples do. And in many cases where your room fee is built into the cost of a package you might be expected to pay your own per-person cost as well as a “single supplement.” (Read on...)

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