The Frugal Traveler

Considering how the economy is right now, being a frugal traveler is the way to go. And since Edward and I are embarking on our European/African vaction in just 5 short weeks, I'm looking for all the money saving tips I can get. This article by the New York Times is very interesting and has a lot of helpful money saving travel tips. I totally agree with the author when he says a lot of your travel savings come from doing research research research. I found this out when I took me 4.5 hours just to book 1 hotel and train tickets out of Amsterdam, just because I was researching ALL our options (or I'm just extremely slow). I definitely want to look into the authors tip about a credit card that doesn't charge foreign currency fees. Those fees really added up when we were in Costa Rica last year. I hope this article give you some summer vaca travel tips.
http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/research-the-travelers-best-friend/