Using just as simple rules, you can significantly reduce their selling costs. Doctor Travel tells how to do it.

So it went to the maps that in any overseas travel costs for flights represent a significant part of the holiday budget. And it is on them more logical and easiest way to save money. The easiest way - to take advantage of special offers major airlines. Aeroflot, Transaero Airlines, Lufthansa, KLM and many other well-known carriers arrange the sale of tickets at very attractive prices, often in spring and autumn. A round trip ticket to Berlin, Hamburg and Riga for 99 euros, to Paris, Rome, Venice and Dubai for 199 euros to Beijing or Shanghai for 299 euros - not from the imagination. True, it is necessary to bear in mind that the total number of such tickets is low and they sell well. Learn about the beginning, the conditions and timing of shares available at the web sites of companies and the Russian mediation sites info.poezdka, tgt, avia-bilet, pulkovo-express. Alas, the seductive price, beneficially affecting the finances, impose on travelers and some limitations. As a rule, have to buy tickets for a half or three months before the planned departure. Limited and the choice of dates. Many companies act "rule Sunday" or the requirement to go back at least a week.

Good opportunity to save money on air travel - take advantage of low low-cost companies, or as they are called, "companies with no frills." Emerged relatively recently, they managed to "scatter" around the world, tobrav from traditional carriers a bigger piece of the pie air. The reason for their success - a low-cost tickets, which is achieved through the toughest economy literally at all. Except, of course, safety. Hot meals on board - only for an additional fee, severely restricted the weight of baggage, as the ground base selected regional airports with small fee. No sales office - booking and payment of tickets is carried on the websites of companies with credit cards. Best Buys - for three to six months before the flight. The closer the departure date, the higher the price, but in any case, it remains lower than that of conventional carriers. Most tempting prices - from Monday to Thursday and Saturday. The most expensive are valued Friday and Sunday.

First low-cost companies linked Russia with Europe, became a German Germanwings (germanwings), voyages from Moscow and St. St. Petersburg to Berlin, Cologne, Stuttgart and Hamburg. The minimum ticket price from Russia to Germany, 109 euros. But the price of tickets in the opposite direction from 30 euros. From Germany Germanwings aircraft can fly in dozens of directions. Geography routes another German low-cost companies AirBerlin (airberlin), engages in flights from Domodedovo, Pulkovo, covers the entire world. Its planes fly to Canada, Cambodia, Jamaica, Kenya, Maldives, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa, Thailand, Tunisia, the United States.

Minimum price of a ticket from Moscow to Dusseldorf - € 86. If you fly farther, the airline has the most convenient options for flights. Among those working in Russia foreign low-cost companies - the Italian Wind Jet (volawindjet.it), Baltic AirBaltic (airbaltic), Spanish Clickair (clickair).

Information about all European low-cost firms can be found at skyscanner, whichbudget, applefares. The largest of them - the British Ryanair (ryanair), serves 362 lines between 130 airports in 20 countries of the Old World. It complements EasyJet (easyjet) with other geography of flights. A pair of these two companies shut nearly all European Sky, successfully competing with ground transportation.

Southeast Asia is well represented by low cost companies, Air Asia (airasia), Jet Star Asia (jetstarasia), Bangkok Airways (bangkokair), covering Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines. For those who are going to travel a lot, Bangkok Airways offers subscription Discovery Airpass, which allows to make from three to six flights on aircraft companies Bangkok Airways, as well as Cambodia's Siem Reap Airways International and Lao Lao Airlines, the discount price of t up for the flight. Date of first flight is fixed, all other - swimming, but no later than two months after the first. For example, with the Discovery Airpass can fly from Bangkok to Cambodia, then - to the north of Thailand in Chiang Mai, then fly to Phuket or Koh Samui and get back to Bangkok.


Roof over your head

Now, when tickets are purchased, you need to book hotel. Do not hesitate, and in the heart of Venice, among the idyllic landscapes of the French Normandy, and even at the edge of the Norwegian glaciers can find small, charming hotel for the price of 50-60 euros for a double room. The easiest way to book - go to specialized sites Proxy - hoteldiscount, hotels, all-hotels, asiarooms, horse21, hotelguide, booking, - which contains information on tens of thousands of hotels worldwide. Of course, choose the account, focusing only on the photos of the hotel and its description. Therefore it is always useful to read the site reviews of those who have stayed there.

Having a pre-selection, do not rush to book you a hotel vending. Go to his website (web address is searched by hotel name on search engines). Directly on the site of the hotel you can find special offers, which are generally not available on the websites of intermediary. For example, paying for six nights, stay for the seventh free. Or get a 30% discount, pay for the room for 30 days prior to arrival.

In most cases the reservation fee will be charged. In confirmation of the seriousness of the need to just tell your credit card number. Please note the payment terms and possible cancellation policy. In this regard, each hotel has its own immigration policy. Typically, the number paid in cash upon check out. You can cancel your reservation one day before the date of arrival, but if you do not, the card comes off the full amount.


Passion visa

Rumors about the complexity of self-Schengen visa is very common, especially among those who themselves have never done so. There just no telling horror stories about it - the existing quotas, qualifications and unnecessary niggle. In fact, workers in consulates quite sensible people, but getting a visa - the usual procedure.How to fill out and the procedure for filing documents in detail on the websites of embassies and visa centers whose addresses can be found on the Internet (embassyworld).

Worker visa center will validate the completion of documents and their completeness. After that you should pay the visa fee is 35 euros and visa service center. All that tourists give travel companies for a Schengen visa in excess of these amounts, in fact, there is a fee for their own laziness and unwillingness to delve into the details of getting the treasured stamps in my passport.


Author: Natalia Yakubov