Champagne Travel on a Beer Budget

With such an abundance of travel blogs and websites out there, excuses are few to not be inspired and resourced to travel in style.

But if you don’t have the time or inclination to search these sites, you’re in luck. Champagne Travel on a Beer Budget does the searching for you and presents the finds in our monthly ‘Link Love’ post. Let the link love begin…

My latest travel blog crush would have to be The Jet Set Life. Check it out and see why.

New website Backpackability is home to a handy list of Budget Travel & Backpacking Resources.

Via Gridskipper, check out the article on the Best New Residence Hotels. I mean really, can you get more champagne travel than setting up digs at a glam hotel? I think not…

I think you are either a quote person or you’re not and I definitely fall into the camp of people who love a good quote. If you’re like me, you’ll love Brave New Traveler’s compilation of The (Next) 50 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes Of All Time.

If you’ve found any other great resources online, feel free to share them in the comments.

If you’re a US resident or have plans to be travelling there in the near future, it is well worth checking out Things You Should Do

This site has tonnes of suggestions for fun things to do in different cities across America and beyond, in fact yours truly has recently done a guest post on free & cheap things to see & do when travelling in Melbourne, Australia.

This post was one of the original ones posted on Champagne Travel on a Beer Budget, and has by far been one of the most popular.

If you are new to the site, other popular past posts that you may want to check out are:

Indulge in a luxury spa experience without the luxury price tag

Having the time of your life travelling solo

How to make flying economy feel like first class

The Ultimate Guide to Getting an Upgrade when you Fly - Pt 1 (I promise Pt 2 is coming soon!)

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Pour yourself a glass of bubbly and settle back for a little bit of online travel browsing:

Travel podcasts

If you’re like me and couldn’t imagine travelling without your ipod, you can now justify your dependence as being a clever strategy to lighten your load. Vagabondish provides a great guide to all the fantastic travel podcasts available here.

Why not lighten the weight of your backpack or suitcase by exchanging a few of those travel and guide books with some of these travelcasts?

Do you have a favourite travel podcast? Please share it in the comments.

The World’s Best Beaches

I love a beach holiday - there’s no need to pack a great deal, you’re guaranteed to leave relaxed and there’s nothing better to daydream about in the weeks leading up to the holiday than laying on a sandy beach, cocktail in hand.

My favourite beach holidays to date have been spent at Haad Tien Beach, Ko Phan Ngan, Thailand & Paradise Beach, Mykonos, Greece.

But as it is currently winter in my homeland of Australia and I don’t have any beach holidays in my plans at the moment, Concierge is providing me with my fix through the 2008 Guide to the World’s Sexiest Beaches.

Read, dream and then start planning your next beach holiday!

Wedding bells…

When checking out the different search engine terms that bring people to Champagne Travel on a Beer Budget, I have noticed a few people searching for budget honeymoons. If that is what brings you here, you may appreciate another great blog along the champagne life on a beer budget philosophy - Champagne Wedding on a Beer Budget.

Our blogs crossed paths due to the similar names and I’m glad to recommend it, especially if you’re in the process of planning a wedding that has plenty of style without costing you plenty of cash!

Perhaps a future post on honeymoons is in order? My honeymoon was an absolute blast and was spent in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo & Byron Bay, Australia. If you have any tips or hints for anyone planning a honeymoon, please send them in!

I was checking through the stats for Champagne Travel on a Beer Budget and noticed that there were a couple of blogs in particular that send quite a few readers this way, whether by mentioning CTOABB in a post or having a link to CTOABB on their site.

One of the fabulous things about blogging is the community & relationships that develop and so I wanted to say cheers and thanks for the love to the following blogs:

Another Passport Stamp - real-life tales of an American flight attendant living in London.
Blog Her - Travel - the community for women who blog.

Couchsurfing - a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit. Check out my post on Couchsurfing here.

Earth to Danie - blogging about life in India, our travels & other stuff.

Farefetched - the best way to search, compare & track Aussie airfares.

Things You Should Do - travel adventures, activities, events, romance, hotels, restaurants, wineries, breweries, sports, outdoor recreation & more.

Travel Minx - travel tips & resources for fellow wanderlusters (I’m not sure if this site is still being updated - but it is still sending readers my way!)

I should also mention a couple of fabulous blogs that purely by being so popular have passively sent me quite a few new readers just from the comments I have left on their sites:

Budget Globetrotting - finding and sharing budget travel ideas for shoestring trips around the world.

Four Hour Work Week - experiments in lifestyle design.

Problogger - helping bloggers to add income streams to their blogs.

Thank you!

Tara @ Champagne Travel on a Beer Budget

Here’s the latest online offerings in the world of budget travel:

The ever useful Frommers Price Index for May 2008. Find out just how far your dollar will take you everywhere from Trindad to Tokyo.

Budget Travel provides great ideas for making European travel more affordable by travelling by bike.

Brave New Traveller has us thinking about the importance of travelling with an open mind.

Budget Globetrotting posts on learning languages while travelling . And the best bit? All the resources they mention are free.

So pour yourself a glass of champers & settle back for some great travel reading this weekend.

As for me, I am off to spend the weekend in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley Wine Region. I’ll be sure to report back with lots of great tips for budget travel in wine regions.

Have a great weekend Champagne Travellers!

Cheers

Tara x

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