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Fully Guided Tours & Trips in USA

Find the right fully guided tour for you in USA. There are 1001 trips to choose from, that range from one day in length, up to 29 days. The month with the most departures is September, making it the most popular time to visit USA.

250+ Fully Guided tour packages in USA with 18,947 reviews

• Hiking & Trekking

Hiking Utah's Mighty 5

Loved this trip, got to meet some awesome people and even got to do some hikes that weren't on the itinerary but were on my bucket list. All in all I couldn't of asked for a better trip

• Mountain Hikes

7 Day Southwest National Parks Grand Canyon Camping Tour

This has been one of the best travel of our life. The landscapes are all breathtaking and all the activities are extraordinary. The only negative point is that this is a lot to do in 7 days and we would have like to spend more time in each national park.

• 5% deposit on some dates Some departure dates offer you the chance to book this tour with a lower deposit.

• Cultural Photography
• Christmas & New Year

Magnificent West - 7 Days

Wir waren eine kleine Gruppe Die Organisation war gut Die Unterkünfte auch Es wurde viel Trinkwasser verteilt Die Reiseleiter, insbesondere Eduardo, fand ich sehr informativ und sachlich.

Best of Utah & Arizona National Parks

It was GREAT! Wonderful views and hikes with an incredible group of people. The tour leader (Chad) shared information on possible hikes in the parks we visited that fit our level of fitness. We did several hikes as a group and he made sure we were all safe and happy. Quite a feat! Definitely a 5 star review and a trip that just makes me want to travel again!

• In-depth Cultural

Vegas to San Fran

Magnificent West – 8 days

Except the hotels and breakfast, rest of the tour was great.

LA to Vegas: Grand National Parks

We had a wonderful time on the Intrepid tour. Our guide Chad was really pleasant and a great organiser. The tour included so many spectacular national parks, the accommodation was excellent and there were plenty of opportunities for hiking.

Mighty 5 From Salt Lake City

It was the best vaycay ever! So very zen with having to focus in the moment on footing, surroundings, other hikers in the vicinity. Amazing group of people with similar ages and abilities. Steve was a perfect guide. He is definitely doing what he was born to do, and doing it very well. Some of the hotels could have been better (breakfast wise) but that wasn't a big deal (not why I went) as we were not there for very long. Courtyard Marriott in SLC was the worst of the lot but otherwise....awesome!!!! So EXCELLENT

Western USA National Parks Loop

We had a wonderful tour. Our tour guide was John Harris, he did an outstanding job making sure everyone had a great experience, had enough water and went out of his way too accommodate everyone’s dietary needs. We would highly recommend taking this tour, leave all the worries to your tour guide just sit back be driven to all the parks with lunch and snacks provided each day. Great way to experience the parks.

Wild Western USA

It was wonderful and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Private Tour- 7 day Southwest National Parks Grand Canyon Tour

Hawaiian Explorer (8 Days, Intra Tour Air Hilo To Kahului)

• €100 deposit on some dates Some departure dates offer you the chance to book this tour with a lower deposit.

California Express - 3 Days

This tour covered many of the places I wanted to see. I particularly liked Montery and Yosemite.

Alaska Kenai Adventure 9 Days

Traveled to Alaska with my boys prior to them going off to college. Infinite Adventures provided us with some of our best memories together. They were very knowledgeable, great at spotting wildlife and the Bear Viewing trip was absolutely amazing! I would highly recommend Infinite Adventures!

• 10% deposit on some dates Some departure dates offer you the chance to book this tour with a lower deposit.

Five Epic National Parks (9 Days)

I really enjoyed my trip: unforgettable landscapes, excellent guide and good hotels. Highly recommend this tour.

What people love about Fully Guided Tours in USA

the best way to explore the vastness and glory of the Utah desert is by camping and hiking in small groups. I enjoyed this trip immensely, it was challenging enough but not too much. Our guide was a brave and resourceful powerful woman. I am planning my next trip with you already!

We did the 7 day Southwest National Parks Grand Canyon Camping Tour with Adriann as our guide and it was outstanding! We drove through beautiful landscapes, had the opportunity to hike in all the national parks and were able to take great photos. Adriann is very accommodating, knows a lot about the individual places and manages to make the trip an unforgettable experience for everyone. We chose the camping option and didn't regret it. The sunrise over the Moment Valley was particularly unique! We can highly recommend Bindlestiff and especially Adriann Narciso :)

Excellent trip. There was a lot of driving but it was worth it. We had excellent guides with information that wasn't listed on the website. There was a lot of driving but many stops to break that up. I have been on a number of tours in America and Europe and found the hotels on this tour to much nicer than in the past. The tours of Monument Valley and Antelope Canyon were nothing less than SPECTACULAR. The guides on the bus and at the sites were more than knowledgeable. The bus was top of the line. I have already spread the name of this company to friends and family. Next year I will be looking for my next trip with this company. Judy Lockie, Ontario, Canada.

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How to Road Trip Across the United States on a Budget

The Great American Road Trip is a rite of passage in the United States . We Americans have a unique fascination with the open road. It’s built into our cultural DNA. In Jazz Age America, the car was a symbol of freedom — a chance to escape your small town and the watchful eyes of parents.

As the highway system was developed in the 1950s, a wave of kids set out on the road to explore the country, giving new life to America’s car and road trip culture. Today, many still dream of getting in a car and driving into wide open spaces for months on end.

I’ve had the privilege of taking several multi-week and multi-month road trips around the country over the years. From traveling the Deep South to criss-crossing the country coast to coast , I’ve visited almost every state, exploring the myriad nooks and crannies of Uncle Sam’s backyard.

One thing is for certain, in diversity and scale, the United States is virtually unrivaled.

But this isn’t a post about fawning over America and its landscapes ( this post is ). This article is about how you can travel around the US on a budget.

Because, as it turns out, this country is surprisingly easy to travel on the cheap.

While rising gas prices and rental car price gouging post-COVID put a damper on things, it’s still easier than you think to have a budget-friendly road trip adventure around the USA.

In this post, I’ll explain how much I spent on one of my trips, how much you should expect to spend, and how you can save money on your next road trip.

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How Much Did My Cross-Country Road Trip Cost?

How to save money on your road trip, how to save on accommodation, how to save on food, how to save on sightseeing, how to save on transportation.

After 116 days traveling around the United States on this trip, I spent $6,262.67 USD, or $53.98 USD per day. While that is slightly higher than $50 USD a day, there were many parts of my budget I splurged on (see breakdown below) which skewed the number up. I definitely could have visited the country even cheaper if I didn’t have an addiction to Starbucks and sushi.

Here is how the numbers from my road trip break down:

• Accommodations: $1,036.36
• Food: $3,258.23
• Drinks: $438.94
• Gas: $696.98
• Parking: $253.00
• Starbucks: $75.26
• Miscellaneous (movies, toiletries, etc.): $170.00
• Attractions: $269.40
• Taxis: $41.00
• Bus: $17.50
• Subway: $6.00
• TOTAL : $6,262.67

Let’s break this down. First, my Starbucks addiction was unnecessary and added to my costs. Second, as a lover of sushi, trying various restaurants throughout my road trip drastically raised my food costs. Sushi, after all, is not cheap.

Moreover, I ate as if I wasn’t on a budget and rarely cooked, which is why my food expenses were so high relative to everything else. I would have definitely gone below $50 USD per day if I followed my own advice and cooked more often.

But, while I splurged in some places, three other things really helped me to keep expenses down: First, gas prices were low, averaging around $2.35 USD a gallon over the duration of my trip. (We’re going to discuss how to still do a road trip on a budget with high gas prices in the next section.)

Second, once you leave the big cities, prices for everything drop by nearly half so I spent a lot of time out of cities.

Third, I used Couchsurfing and cashed in hotel points to keep accommodation costs down. That helped a lot.

Overall, I didn’t do too bad and am happy with how much I spent. But is this how much you’ll spend, especially in the face of inflation and high gas prices? Let’s discuss that below.  

It’s no secret travel costs a lot lately and inflation and high gas prices have really made super cheap road trips hard if you’re not staying places for free but that doesn’t mean the road trip has to be super expensive.

With that in mind, here’s how to cut your accommodation, sightseeing, food, and transportation costs — all without cutting into your experience!  

1. Couchsurf — Couchsurfing is a service that allows you to stay with locals for free. Using this website (or similar ones) is the best way to lower accommodation costs, as you can’t get cheaper than free!

More than that, it’s a wonderful way to meet locals, get insider tips, and find off-the-beaten-track stuff to do in the area you’re visiting. While you’re generally expected to reciprocate your host’s kindness (cooking them a meal, taking them out for drinks or coffee, etc.), it’s still far cheaper than paying for a hotel or motel.

While the app has seen its community shrink in recent years, there are still plenty of hosts across the United States so you’ll rarely find problems finding someone to put you up.

Additionally, if you don’t feel comfortable staying with a stranger, you can use the app to meet people for drinks, coffee, activities, or anything else you want to do. That way, you can still meet a local and get their insider tips without having to stay with them. The app has all kinds of meet-ups and events too so be sure to check it out.

2. Airbnb — I only recommend using Airbnb in rural, out of the way places where hotels are limited. Avoid them as much as possible in other circumstances. Here is why we don’t really recommend them.

3. Budget hotels — There are a plethora of cheap roadside hotels such as Motel 6 and Super 8 that will help you stay cheap. Rooms start around $50 USD per night and are super basic and always look well worn. You’ll get a bed, bathroom, TV, tiny closet, and maybe a desk. They are nothing to write home about, but for a quiet place to sleep for a night, they do the trick.

And if you’re traveling with someone you should always say the room is for one person as these hotels charge you more for two people.

Also, make sure you sign up for Booking.com and Hotels.com loyalty programs. Hotels.com gives you a free room after 10 bookings, and Booking.com offers members 10% off bookings, as well as free upgrades and perks if you book multiple times after signing up. They definitely helped a lot.

Pro tip : Book through websites like Mr.Rebates or Rakuten . By using their links before going to Hotels.com or Booking, you’ll get 2-4% cash back in addition to the loyalty program deals.

4. Hotel points — Be sure to sign up for hotel credit cards before you go and use those points when you travel. You can get upwards of 70,000 points as a sign-up bonus, which can translate into a week’s worth of accommodations.

The points came in handy in places where I couldn’t find an Airbnb, hostel, or Couchsurfing host. This saved my butt in big cities around the country. I was glad I had accrued so many hotel points before my trip.

To learn more about, check out these posts:

• The Best Hotel Credit Cards
• The Ultimate Guide to Picking the Best Travel Credit Card
• Points and Miles 101: A Beginner’s Guide
• The Best Travel Credit Cards

5. Hostels — There aren’t many hostels in the United States, and most of them are overpriced. A dorm room typically costs around $30 a night, which means you can obtain a similar private room on Airbnb at the same price. If you are traveling with others, it’s often more economical to get a budget hotel than a bunch of dorm beds.

However, if you are traveling solo and want to meet others, the social benefits may outweigh the lack of value. There were just some times I didn’t want to be alone – I wanted to be around other travelers.

Some of the hostels I loved are:

• Samesun Venice Beach (LA)
• South Beach Hostel (Miami)
• India House (New Orleans)
• Jazz Hostels (NYC)
• ITH Adventure Hostel (San Diego)
• The Green Tortoise (San Francisco and Seattle).

For more hostel suggestions, here’s a list of my favorite hostels in the USA.

6. Camping — Dotted around the country — including around all the national parks — are inexpensive campsites. If you have a tent and camping gear, this is by far the cheapest way to travel. Campsites cost between $10-30 USD per night, which makes seeing the country incredibly affordable. Most campsites have basic amenities like running water, bathrooms, and the ability to upgrade to get electricity.

In addition to your standard campgrounds, check out the sharing economy website Campspace . It lets you pitch a tent on private properties all around the country for a small fee. Much like Airbnb, some plots are super basic and barebones while others are more luxurious, so be sure to poke around for a cheap place to stay as there are plots available all around the country.

It’s also legal to wild camp in national forests and on BLM land unless otherwise marked.

7. Sleep in your car — I know this isn’t glamorous but sleeping in your vehicle brings your accommodation costs down to zero. I know lots of travelers who did this to make their trip more affordable, some sleeping in their car just occasionally and others doing it every night. Chances are you won’t sleep well but you will save money, and that’s a fair trade to some people!

For those traveling in an RV, there are tons of free places to park and camp all around the country. Use iOverlander to find the best spots.  

To help you keep your food costs in check, here are a few quick tips:

1. Cook your own meals as often as possible – If you can bring a cooler in your vehicle, you can pack groceries instead of eating out all the time. And if you bring some containers, you can store leftovers in the car too, allowing you to cook larger meals at dinner that you can eat the next day for lunch.

2. Stay in accommodation with a kitchen – If you want to cook, you’ll need a kitchen. Prioritize accommodation like Couchsurfing, Airbnb, and hostels as those will typically provide kitchen access so you can cook your meals.

3. Shop cheap – Avoid the pricier grocery stores like Whole Foods when it comes to getting groceries and stick to budget places like Walmart. It’s not glamorous, but it will be cheap!

4. Find cheap restaurants – When you want to eat out but don’t want to break the bank, use Yelp, ask people on websites like Couchsurfing, or inquire at the desks at hostels for suggestions. Locals have the best tips and insights when it comes to where to eat so they can point you in the right direction. Simply cook, limit your eating out, and be happy!

1. Get a National Parks pass — For $80, you can purchase an annual National Parks and Federal Lands ‘America the Beautiful’ pass that provides access to all 63 national parks (as well as any other recreation areas administered by the National Park Service). In total, you can visit more than 2,000 federal recreation sites with the same pass. At $20-35 USD per visit, seeing five during your trip makes the pass a money saver. When you visit your first park, simply buy the pass and you’re good to go. There’s no need to order it in advance.

The U.S. national park system is amazing and really highlights the diversity of landscapes in the country. You can’t travel across the country without stopping at many of the national parks, especially as you get out west.

2. City tourism cards — City tourism cards allow you to see a large number of attractions (and often include free public transportation) for one price, usually $75-100 USD. They provide free access to museums, reduced access to attractions, and restaurant discounts. Be sure to look into them if you plan on doing a lot of sightseeing, as they generally will save you money. They can be purchased at tourism information centers or online before you go.

3. Free museums and events — Inquire at tourism centers, use Google, or ask hotel or hostel staff for information about free events and museums. Many museums offer occasional free or discounted admission throughout the week. There are always tons of free activities in any city in the United States.

4. Free walking tours and city greeter programs — Many cities in the US have free walking tours or city greeter programs that pair you with a local guide who can give you a brief tour. Whenever I visit a new city, I start my trip off with one of these tours. They show you the lay of the land, introduce you to the main sights, and give you access to an expert local guide that can answer all your questions.

Check in with the local tourism office when you arrive to see what programs and tours are available.

For greeter programs, you’ll need to sign-up in advance before your visit. It’s good to give about 2 weeks’ notice as they have to find someone to take you around. Google “(city name) greeter program” to find them as some are run independently of the city tourism board so might not be listed on their website.

Here are your options when it comes to traveling across the country:

1. Hitchhike — This isn’t something I did on my trip, as I had a car, but it’s very doable (and relatively safe). Here’s a post by my friend Matt who hitchhiked across the United States explaining how to do so and come out alive (don’t worry, it’s safer than you think)..

For more hitchhiking tips, use Hitchwiki .

2. Rideshare — Taking on riders can be a way to lower your costs. On my first trip across the U.S., I offered rides to people I met in hostels. On this trip, I had friends and readers join me along the way. You can post ads on Craigslist and Gumtree and at hostels to find riders. This not only makes the trip more enjoyable but lowers your gas costs. Or if you are a rider, you can use the same services to find rides to get you places.

3. Buy a car — If you don’t have a car or don’t want to rent one, you can buy cheap used cars from car dealers or owners on Craigslist. There are lots of listings, and you can resell the car at the end of your trip to recoup some of your initial purchase cost. While this is easy in other countries, it’s hard to do in the United States, so remember a couple of key points:

• You’ll need a US address for registration documents to get sent to. I would use a hostel or hotel address and then set up a forwarding address with the Post Office.
• You’ll have to buy car insurance, which can greatly add to the costs of your trip.

Another option is to use a car relocation service. This is when you take someone’s car and drive it across the country. You are usually paid, and gas is covered. The downside is you don’t often have a lot of leeway on timing, so you might not have much time to stop and sightsee along the way. Car relocation options are also usually limited. Two companies worth checking out are Transfercar and Hit the Road .

If you just want to rent a car, use Discover Cars .

4. Use gas apps & membership programs – Install GasBuddy , an app that finds the cheapest gas prices near you. It is a must. If you’re going on a longer road trip, sign up for the monthly program; it costs $9.99 but will save you up to 40 cents a gallon.

Also, sign up for every gas loyalty program you can, so as to maximize points and discounts. Moreover, if you get a brand’s credit card, your first 50 gallons usually come with 30 cents off per gallon.

You should also consider getting a Costco membership for cheap gas. They have around 574 stores around the US so you’ll be able to earn the cost of a membership back by saving money on both gas and food.

5. Download parking apps – Parking costs add up — especially in cities. Use apps like BestParking and Parker to find spots and compare prices.

6. Take the bus – If driving is entirely out of the question, you can find bus tickets for as little as $1 USD from Megabus. Greyhound and Flixbus also have cheap rides all around the US. Rides under five hours are usually around $20 USD if you book early, and overnight rides usually cost $50-100. You can save big if you book in advance (often upwards of 75%!).

Don’t let the United States fool you! A road trip across the United States is a fun way to see a lot of diverse landscapes, experience different cultures, and meet interesting people. Traveling America isn’t very expensive once you are outside the big cities and you can easily travel the country on a budget by using the advice in this article.

Book Your Trip to the USA: Logistical Tips and Tricks

Book Your Flight Use Skyscanner to find a cheap flight. They are my favorite search engine because they search websites and airlines around the globe so you always know no stone is left unturned!

Book Your Accommodation You can book your hostel with Hostelworld as they have the biggest inventory and best deals. If you want to stay somewhere other than a hostel, use Booking.com as they consistently return the cheapest rates for guesthouses and cheap hotels.

Don’t Forget Travel Insurance Travel insurance will protect you against illness, injury, theft, and cancellations. It’s comprehensive protection in case anything goes wrong. I never go on a trip without it as I’ve had to use it many times in the past. My favorite companies that offer the best service and value are:

• Safety Wing (for everyone below 70)
• Insure My Trip (for those over 70)
• Medjet (for additional evacuation coverage)

Looking for the Best Companies to Save Money With? Check out my resource page for the best companies to use when you travel. I list all the ones I use to save money when I’m on the road. They will save you money when you travel too.

Want More Information on the United States? Be sure to visit our robust destination guide on the US for even more planning tips!

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Cost of a Trip to the United States & the Cheapest Time to Visit the United States

The average price of a 7-day trip to the United States is $1,705 for a solo traveler, $1,842 for a couple, and $3,652 for a family of 4 . United States hotels range from $63 to $289 per night with an average of $99, while most vacation rentals will cost $190 to $630 per night for the entire home. Average worldwide flight costs to the United States (from all airports) are between $655 and $992 per person for economy flights and $2,057 to $3,115 for first class. Depending on activities, we recommend budgeting $48 to $98 per person per day for transportation and enjoying local restaurants.

See below for average , budget , and luxury trip costs. You can also look up flight costs from your airport for more tailored flight pricing.

The Cheapest Times to Visit the United States

On average, these will be the cheapest dates to fly to the United States and stay in a United States hotel:

• January 8th to March 11th
• April 16th to April 29th
• August 6th to November 18th

The absolute cheapest time to take a vacation in the United States is usually mid to late September .

Average United States Trip Costs

Average solo traveler.

The average cost for one person to visit the United States for a week is $1,258-$2,511 ($180-$359 per day)

Food, Travel, and Sightseeing : $48 to $98 per day for one person’s daily expenses

Flights : $412 to $871 for economy

Lodging : $85 to $112 per night for one 2 or 3-star hotel room

or $130 to $159 per night for a 1-bed vacation rental

Average Couple’s Trip

The average cost for a couple to visit the United States for a week is $2,007-$4,075 ($287-$582 per day)

Food, Travel, and Sightseeing : $96 to $197 per day for two people’s daily expenses

Flights : $825 to $1,742 for economy

Average Family Vacation

The average cost for 4 people to visit the United States for a week is $4,013-$7,670 ($573-$1,096 per day)

Food, Travel, and Sightseeing : $192 to $393 per day for four people’s daily expenses

Flights : $1,649 to $3,485 for economy

Lodging : $170 to $225 per night for two 2 or 3-star hotel rooms

or $196 to $239 per night for a 2-bed vacation rental

Traveling Cheap to the United States

How cheap can you make a vacation to the United States? The cheapest trip to the United States is about $129 per person per day for travelers willing to take standby flights, deal with inconvenience, and otherwise limit travel expenses. About 1% of rentals are available in the $0 to $100 range for an entire place, and vacation rentals can be booked for as low as $16 per night. These inexpensive rentals must be booked as early as possible and may not be in the most desirable areas. 1-star hotels are more likely to be available, with rooms starting at around $54.

Even cheaper trips are possible depending on where you live and whether you can drive. Check the cheapest times to fly for more saving ideas.

Budget Solo Traveler

The lowest cost for one person to visit the United States for a week is $904-$2,173 ($129-$310 per day)

Food, Travel, and Sightseeing : $24 to $48 per day for one person’s daily expenses

Lodging : $54 to $63 per night for one 1-star hotel room

or $131 to $161 per night for a 1-bed vacation rental

Budget Couple’s Trip

The lowest cost for a couple to visit the United States for a week is $1,485-$3,380 ($212-$483 per day)

Food, Travel, and Sightseeing : $48 to $96 per day for two people’s daily expenses

Budget Family Vacation

The lowest cost for 4 people to visit the United States for a week is $2,963-$6,275 ($423-$896 per day)

Food, Travel, and Sightseeing : $96 to $192 per day for four people’s daily expenses

Lodging : $107 to $126 per night for two 1-star hotel rooms

or $196 to $241 per night for a 2-bed vacation rental

Overall it is very difficult to travel to the United States cheaply.

The Cost of a Luxury United States Trip

There is no true ceiling on the cost of a luxury trip, so our estimates are based on what most people do in the United States.

Luxury Solo Traveler

The high-end price for one person to visit the United States for a week is $2,583-$10,931 ($369-$1,562 per day)

Food, Travel, and Sightseeing : $96 to $197 per day for one person’s daily expenses

Flights : $1,029 to $2,172 for first class

Lodging : $147 to $289 per night for one 4 or 5-star hotel room

or $615 to $1,230 per night for a preferred vacation rental

Luxury Couple’s Trip

The high-end price for a couple to visit the United States for a week is $4,283-$14,475 ($612-$2,068 per day)

Food, Travel, and Sightseeing : $192 to $393 per day for two people’s daily expenses

Flights : $2,057 to $4,344 for first class

Luxury Family Vacation

The high-end price for 4 people to visit the United States for a week is $8,567-$25,259 ($1,224-$3,608 per day)

Food, Travel, and Sightseeing : $384 to $786 per day for four people’s daily expenses

Flights : $4,115 to $8,687 for first class

Lodging : $294 to $579 per night for two 4 or 5-star hotel rooms

or $923 to $1,845 per night for a preferred vacation rental

United States Hotel Prices

The cost of staying in the United States is much higher than the average city. On average hotels are less expensive than vacation rentals. Luxury vacation rentals are more expensive in the United States due to very high property costs. The graphs below show how much cost can vary depending on the type of experience you’re looking for.

United States Lodging Cost by Star Status

The average price for the class of hotel is on the (y) axis. The hotel class (out of 5 stars) is on the (x) axis.

Prices are based on United States hotel averages and may not reflect current prices. In some cases, we extrapolate prices to estimate costs, and hotels with your desired star rating may not be available.

Vacation Rental Prices

The percent of vacation rentals in the price range is on the left (y) axis. Price range is on the bottom (x) axis.

There are a healthy amount of vacation rentals serving all budgets in the United States.

Flight Costs to the United States

Averaging flights around the world, prices go from a high of $992 average in late July to a low of $655 in mid to late September. Median flight price is $625. These prices are based on millions of flights. For the United States our data includes thousands of originating airports, and hundreds of airlines. The area has more variance in price compared with other locations.

Average Flight Cost by Season

Average flight cost by day of week.

The cheapest day to fly in is typically Tuesday, and the cheapest day to fly back is usually Tuesday. Click here to see data for the cost of flights from your airport. In the United States, the difference between the cheapest and the most expensive week is about $337, so you can easily save about 51% simply by using our free flight guides and booking in advance.

Daily Expenses Budget

Daily vacation expenses vary more based on what you’re interested in doing. A fine dining restaurant with drinks around the United States can easily cost $359 per person or more, while a standard nice meal might be about $24 per person. Private tours can cost $719 per day, but self-guided tours to see the outdoor sights can be free. Costs vary wildly, so recommendations are made based on the cost of living and averages we see for this type of vacation.

Other United States Guides

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Ready to take the hassle out of planning and managing your vacation budget? Our online Free Travel Budget Calculator is  simple, and easy to use, and can help you plan and track your vacation expenses in just a few clicks.  

I’ve used these same methods and categories of expenses for every trip I’ve taken over the last 25 years. From multiple  3 month solo adventures through Europe and South America, to weeks long trips to Cuba and Vancouver Island, Canada with my family. 

Now online with automatic calculations, so you don’t have to mess around with spreadsheets or hand write in printables that clutter up your home. 

In this post you’ll get access to this free tool, plus, you’ll get my top tips for planning your budget effectively for your trips and how to save money on travel. All the advice you need for smarter travel planning is right here.

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How to Use the Travel Budget Calculator & Try It Out!

Make sure to bookmark this page so you can come back to it anytime you need to track your vacation expenses and make travel plans.

This free vacation budget calculator will give you an estimate of total travel costs for your trip and whether your budget is enough to cover what you want to do.

It can help you identify areas you can potentially save money on trip expenses. Whether it’s choosing more budget-friendly hotels, walking or taking the bus instead of taxis, or prioritizing your top not-to-miss activities.

You can also start with your budget.

Then play around with the length of your trip, how much hotels, flights etc will cost to help you determine your price range for each travel expense as well.

• Enter 0 (zero) if there are certain categories you don’t need . The calculator will output an error ($NaN) if you don’t.
• Instructions for the calculator are below the Travel Budget Calculator, to give you an idea of what you should include under each budget item.

Vacation Budget Calculator

Calculator instructions.

Enter all your estimated expenses you’ve gathered during your vacation research.

Make sure it’s actually a realistic travel budget. For a  family trip with young kids, you’ll also need to factor other things like diapers, baby wipes etc.

• Travel Budget : Enter your overall vacation budget you have for this trip.
• Number of Travellers: Enter the number of people you are paying for on this trip
• Number of Nights: Enter the number of nights you will need accommodations for. This will be used to calculate hotel costs.
• Number of Vacation Days: Enter the number of days you will be on vacation. Include travel days to be safe . This will be used to calculate your overall food & drink, daily transportation and activity costs.
• Total Flight Costs: Enter the estimated total of flight costs for everyone travelling. Be sure to include any baggage fees.
• Transportation Costs: Enter the total transportation costs for the trip. This is for any major transport costs that aren’t flights like trains, city transfers, car or RV rentals.
• Daily Transportation Costs: Enter your anticipated daily transport costs. This is for things like taxis, buses, Ubers, parking costs etc, you might need to get around every day.
• Hotel Costs (Per Night): Enter the amount your accommodations will cost each night. Don’t forget to include any tips for housekeeping staff etc. you may need to pay.
• Total Tour Costs: Enter your overall total budget or cost for tours, including guide tips.
• Activity Costs (Per Day) : Enter the amount you expect to spend on activities daily (do not include tours). These are for things like seeing movies, souvenirs, shopping, trips to a rec centre / pool, bowling, seeing a hockey game or a concert etc.
• Food & Drink Costs (per Day): Enter your overall daily food & drink budget or expected costs for everyone. Don’t forget to include tips.
• Miscellaneous Expenses: Enter an amount of money you will have overall for unexpected expenses or miscellaneous costs that pop up. Be sure to also include extra travel expenses not covered elsewhere.
• Travel Insurance: Enter the overall amount of money you will pay for travel insurance for everyone. This is for things like travel health insurance, trip cancellation insurance etc.

Budget Outputs

Currency Note: While the output is in dollars (uses the $ symbol), you can really use any numerical currency you’d like. Just ignore the $ symbol.

Once you hit the calculate button, you will get 4 pieces of info based on the numbers you provided:

• Total Vacation Costs : This is the estimated cost for your vacation based on the info you provided.
• Over Budget / Under Budget: This is the amount you are either over or under budget. If your expenses are over your vacation budget, it will say Over Budget and the number will be negative. If it says Under Budget, that is the amount you are under your estimated budget.
• Travel Costs Per Day: This is the amount of money your trip will cost you each day.
• Cost Per Person Per Day: This is the amount of money your trip will cost you per person, each day.

Make sure to review your results. If your over budget are there things you can do to bring the costs down? Or is there a way you can save or make more money before your trip?

Why You Need A Travel Budget

Listen, I am all for spending a little extra to do things our family doesn’t get to do at home. 

But there is nothing more anxiety-inducing than running out of money on a trip, or having to pay off huge credit card bills at 28%  interest because you didn’t plan ahead.

This is where a vacation budget can really help. 

It doesn’t mean you can’t have fun or spend money.

Creating a budget will actually help you be able to afford your dreams. Plus be able to relax & have fun on your vacation knowing you won’t be in debt when you get back home.

The trip budget calculator will make financial planning fun, and easy.

How To Set Your Travel Budget & Determine Expenses

1. determine your overall travel budget.

First things first. Decide on your overall vacation budget or the money you are willing to spend on this trip.

When determining your overall vacation budget, you’ll want to consider a few things:

• How much money are you willing to spend on this trip?
• How much have you already saved?
• How long do you plan to go for? (more or less time can impact your budget)
• How many people will be travelling? (some places like Europe limit 4 people to a hotel room, this can significantly impact cost)
• When do you want to travel and how much time do you have to add to your vacation fund?
• How much extra can you afford to put away every week / month on top of your regular bills & household expenses?
• Is there any way you can decrease household expenses, or increase your income to add to your vacation fund faster?

Just make sure it’s a realistic budget. It doesn’t do anybody any good to use too low or too high numbers as a starting point. 

2. Do Your Research

The type of trip you want to take, the length and the type of activities you want to do, will really impact your budget.

For example a week long trip to Thailand will be much different than a week in Japan, or a trip to Disneyworld.

Do some intial research to give you an idea of what your basic travel expenses will costs, so you can have ballpark figures to enter in the travel cost calculator.

You can always google average costs of living / travelling at your destination.

Careful planning is an important part of any travel budget. 

3. Find Ways to Cut Costs

Unless you have a rich benefactor, or suddenly won the lottery, it’s a good idea to consider ways you can cut costs, save money and use your travel budget wisely.

Besides using our holiday budget calculator, our favourite ways to save money on travel expenses.

Transportation & Accommodation

• Find flight deals & error fares : The best way is with Going (Formerly Scott’s Cheap Flights) Flight tickets can be a big expense and make up a good portion of the total cost usually. 
• Consider housesitting: Trusted Housesitters is our go-to site for housesitting around the world.
• Rent a place with a kitchen : Save money on food with a vacation rental . They can also be cheaper than renting multiple hotel rooms if you have a large family or group.
• Compare car rentals: Using Discover Cars can help you save up to 70% by quickly comparing rental cars options.
• Book early: Hotels, flights and trains are generally cheaper booked in advance. You won’t want to risk paying significantly more waiting until last minute.
• Take public transportation: If it’s safe to do so, take the local bus, or walk instead of relying on expensive taxis all the time.

⭐️ Also check out our list of the best ways to save money on flights .

General Money Saving Tips

• Travel off season or peak season: Not only is it usually much cheaper, there’s usually fewer tourists.
• Use a credit card with no foreign transaction fees : Those transaction fees can really add up. Also consider if travel credit cards with points are for you.
• Eat where the locals eat : Avoiding the touristy restuarants, and eating where the locals eat will not only save you lots of money, it will give you a more authentic look into their local cuisine and culture.
• Avoid popular destinations:  The most popular touristy destinations  often cost a lot of money, compared to smaller, lesser known destinations.  
• Consider using travel agents: Sometimes a travel agent can find you a great deal, with much less work on your part. 
• Adjust your travel style: Luxury resorts may be out of your price range. Road trips, camping trips can be just as memorable for for a family vacation.
• Plan free activities : Pick some free activities to do in between your more expensive tours, theme parks, & day trips to ancient ruins. 
• Check out these ways to save on flights

Final Thoughts Using The Vacation Budget Calendar

Creating a vacation budget might seem challenging, but don’t worry! Equipped with the right tools and a bit of strategic planning, your next epic adventure is closer than you think.

Using a vacation budget calculator can help guide you to make smart, affordable choices, allowing you to experience the journey you’ve always dreamed of, without stressing about expenses.

Travel can be exciting and enjoyable at all budget levels. So here’s to making memories with your family, and friends.

Related travel planning resources:

• Ultimate Pre-Travel Checklist
• Family beach vacation tips
• Tips for saving money on road trips
• Easy ways to build a travel fund
• Save money on attractions: Where to buy online tour tickets

Donna Garrison is the founder of Packed for Life, an ever curious traveler with a passion for making memories with her family. With a unique perspective on travelling on a budget gathered over 30 years, 20 countries and 5 continents she gives families the tools & resources they need to experience the joys of travelling more for less through practical solutions. She helps over 20,000 families a month plan & take the family travel, camping and road trip adventures of their dreams in Canada, the USA and around the world. Contact her at: Donna [at] packedforlife.com

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Whether you’re planning an international vacation or a long-weekend road trip, the idea of escaping your daily life for the promise of relaxation and adventure is intoxicating. But while planning a big trip can be exciting, it can also be overwhelming—especially when you’re trying to figure out how much it’s going to cost.

We’ve created a simple Google spreadsheet to help you plan and budget for your next trip. The Balance’s Travel Budget Worksheet includes common expenses (large and small), plus space to enter credit card or other loyalty program rewards that defray some of the cash costs. It’s free to download and use (but you will need a Google account).

The last thing you want is to arrive at your destination and realize you’re out of money. That’s why it’s important to make a travel budget that includes everything from rental car costs to seat selection fees. As part of “ Our Money’s on Travel ”—our series on getting back to travel—we’re taking a look at how to budget for a trip, whether it’s the big costs or the small, plus a few travel hacks to help you save money along the way. 

Most trips involve significant expenses such as transportation and lodging. How significant they are depends on your plans—transportation could include plane tickets or gas for your car, and lodging could mean a five-star hotel or a cabin in the woods. Websites such as Budget Your Trip can help you plan for these costs, but don’t factor in any tips or tricks for saving money. So while this kind of budgeting site can be a good starting point, there’s a lot more that goes into planning your travel budget. Here are a few strategies for saving money on these major travel expenses.

• If you have access to multiple airports, like New York City residents, check prices out of all of them: LaGuardia (LGA), John F. Kennedy (JFK), and Newark (EWR). 
• If you only have one local airport, consider booking a separate, cheaper ticket to a major hub, which may offer cheaper flights.
• Be flexible with your dates and aim to travel during off-peak times. 
• In pre-Covid times, there was evidence that you could get the best fares by booking 20-115 days in advance and flying on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. But those bets are off because airlines’ pricing formulas are in transition as they cautiously ramp up for more travel. For now, you’ll just have to look for deals and grab them when you see them.   
• Follow airfare deal sites such as Scott’s Cheap Flights , Secret Flying , and Dan’s Deals to find out about cheap flights as soon as they’re available. 
• Check multiple sources before booking hotels to find the best rates and deals. For example, Hotels.com offers a free night for every 10 nights you book. Large hotel chains often advertise best rate guarantees and will give you up to 25% off your stay if you find a better rate elsewhere.  
• Consider shared lodging, such as a private room or dorm in a hostel or a private room in a local’s house on Airbnb, rather than renting an entire home. 
• Take advantage of any deals through membership programs such as AAA and AARP. 

Transportation

• If you’re planning to rent a car, use sites like Autoslash to compare rental car costs across a wide variety of programs and get a quote for the cheapest rates available. 
• Train passes, like the Eurail Pass , offer discounted or unlimited travel for a fixed price so you’ll never be surprised by last-minute ticket costs. 
• Electric scooter companies such as Bird and Lime allow you to purchase daily or monthly ride passes in certain cities. 

Is Travel Insurance Worth It?

Travel insurance protects you in case of unexpected delays, cancellations, or medical costs in covered situations. But before you buy it from your airline or another carrier, check to see whether you’re covered by the credit card you’re using to book your trip. 

In addition, many airlines have eliminated change fees for flights, while many hotels have begun allowing flexible cancellations on their bookings. If you won’t face financial consequences for changing those big-ticket bookings, travel insurance may not be worth the cost.

The big costs aren’t the only ones to consider beforehand. Your travel budget should also consider expenses like tipping, entertainment, souvenirs, food, and even cellphone fees.

Plan for as many of these costs in advance as possible so you aren’t surprised during your trip—or when you return home to larger-than-expected bills. 

Watch out for these costs and minimize or eliminate them with these smart strategies:

• Rental car additional driver fees : If you need a second driver on your booking, book through a service that includes them for free, such as Costco Travel . 
• Rental car insurance : If you already have car insurance, check to see whether it extends to rental cars. If you don’t own a car, look into a non-owner car insurance policy that will cover you when you drive a rental, which generally costs far less than traditional rental car insurance policies. Also, check whether the credit card you’re using offers its own rental car insurance. 
• Debit card holds : Hotels and rental car companies will put a hold on your card when you arrive. If you’re paying with a debit card, the money they put on hold will not be available to you until the hold drops, which could take some time. If possible, make your bookings with a credit card instead, or include the hold in your travel budget.
• Cellphone coverage : If you’re with Google Fi or T-Mobile, you’re in luck, as most locations are covered for free by your cellphone plan. Otherwise, consider purchasing a local prepaid SIM card, which can cost significantly less than the international roaming fees charged by most cellphone companies. Or plan to leave your phone on airplane mode and only use it when connected to Wi-Fi.
• Entertainment costs : Many major cities offer tourist cards, which bundle tickets to a number of attractions onto a card that’s valid for a set number of days. If you plan to hit all the highlights, these cards could save you a bundle over individually purchased tickets.

After diligently earning rewards on your travel credit cards, now’s the time to cash them in for free flights and hotel stays. You can choose to redeem points directly through your card’s travel portal, or transfer them over to hotel or airline chains to book awards. 

We recommend crunching the numbers to find the best way to redeem credit card points . For example, hotel chains such as Hilton and Marriott offer the fifth night free on award bookings, so it may make sense to transfer your points to your hotel rewards account. This can also be a good strategy for buying expensive flights, as airlines will sometimes charge a set amount of miles for a ticket even if the cash price is high. 

Now that you’ve got a handle on how to save money on travel expenses, it’s time to do the heavy lifting: actually saving money for your trip. Consider these ways to save up for your trip:

• Set up an automatic transfer from your checking account into a dedicated “travel fund” account. This strategy keeps your travel budget separate, so you’re not tempted to spend it elsewhere before your trip.
• If you receive a tax refund, put as much as you can straight into your travel fund.
• If you have extra cash left over from the stimulus checks, move it into your travel fund. 
• Work bonuses or side hustles could offer unexpected ways to boost your travel account.
• If your family exchanges gifts, consider letting them know that you’re saving up for a vacation. Cash is always an option, and gift cards for hotels, airlines, and restaurants can also make a significant contribution to your travel budget. They could even give you frequent flyer points if they’d like.

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How to Budget for a Trip: The Easiest Travel Budgeting Method (+ Tips!)

Here’s a silly secret: I love budgeting travel… and I also think that most guides to creating a travel budget make it entirely too complicated.

I initially wrote this guide on how to budget for a trip almost 7 years ago, when we were prepping for what we were then calling a 6 month round the world trip (spoiler: depending on your definition of “trip”, it never actually ended).

50+ countries and the better part of a decade later, I’m still using the exact same, simple formula for calculating our budget while traveling–even if our definition of “on a budget” has changed over the years.

Planning to hit the road soon and wondering how much money you need for your trip?

Whether you’re headed off on a 2-week Europe trip or you’re planning to live out of a backpack for years like we did, our simple method for budgeting travel expenses has you covered.

Here’s the travel budget strategy that we swear by to this day!

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Here’s our incredible simple calculation for travel expenses:

(Money Saved – Major Expenses) / Number of Days Traveling = D aily Budget

That’s it–simple, easy to remember, and allows you to easily translate your savings from a pile of money into an actual travel budget.

Some long term travelers prefer to divide by the number of weeks instead of the number of days, on the premise that some days you may blow a large amount, and then have cheaper days to make up for it.

While that is 100% true and Jeremy and I definitely balance expensive days with inexpensive ones, I still prefer to think in terms of days.

In my experience, smaller numbers tend to be more easily tracked, and are less overwhelming as a result.

How to Define Major Travel Expenses

“Major expenses” can be somewhat of an ambiguous term, but I tend to use this for pricey plane tickets, travel insurance, and large monthly bills that you’re still responsible for during your trip (say, a car payment or health insurance). 

If you’re headed to any destinations that require a visa, be sure to include those costs as well!

For shorter trips, I also like to include lodging and certain cheaper transportation costs (night trains, budget airline flights, rental cars) here, but for long-term travel, that’s obviously not practical.

The point of the major expenses category is simply to remove the money that is allocated for specific expenses from play before determining how much you have to spend.

This is to avoid either a) running around feeling like you have more money than you do and overspending or b) anxiously fretting about the upcoming expense (like a plane ticket home) and saying no to things that you want to do because you’re needlessly stressed about not having enough money.

Personally, we’re much more likely to do the second.

Looking back on almost 7 years of travel, I can now definitively say that there have been more experiences than we’ve said no to when we should have jumped at the opportunity than times we splurged on an experience that wasn’t worth deducting from our calculated travel budget.

Luckily, thanks to this travel budgeting system, those experiences have been few and far between.

For us, this method of creating a travel budget works perfectly.

Thanks to careful tracking, we have never overspent on a trip, and we’ve also never worried much about money during our travels.

The worst that will happen is that we have a couple of pricey days in a row and follow it up with a day of inexpensive hiking or laying on the beach to make up for it (hardly a tragedy).

While I tend to track our daily expenses via mental estimates, I will write out cash expenses daily and credit card/more easily tracked expenses a couple of times a week–yes, even 7 years later.

It may seem like a drag, but 10 minutes of work can relieve a lot of stress and fear of the unknown that can come with just letting your money slip to the back of your mind.

(At least, it will be in the back of your mind until you start panicking over the thought of where your checking account balance might be when trying to fall asleep at night!).

Let’s say that a couple traveling is traveling to Paris from the USA for one week, and wants to calculate their travel budget.

In the interest of not searching too deeply for a pretend trip, I’ll say they buy the first flights they search for don’t stress about that too much. They’re also cautious and want travel insurance for their trip.

Our pretend couple has a $4000 travel budget, in total.

Major Travel Expenses for Our Mock Paris Trip

Round-Trip Flights to Paris: $2000

Travel Insurance : $150 

Hotel Room, $130/night for 7 nights: $910

($4000 total budget – $3060 major expenses) / 7 days = $134.28/day to spend, or $67.14/per person, per day.

I would round those down to $134 or $67, both for the ease of math and to build in a slightly conservative slant to the budget.

This would need to cover activities/tours, souvenirs/shopping, transportation while in Paris, and food/drinks.

That’s not only doable but completely comfortable in Paris, as long as our pretend couple is not hoping for luxury travel.

Know what’s worth it to you.

If you’re a major foodie, skimping on dining probably isn’t going to work for you–and if you’re a SCUBA lover, suggesting you limit dives on a beach trip may sound miserable.

Whatever your priorities are, focus on those and skimp on other areas, instead–even if other travelers consider the things you skip to be must-see sights.

Check in on your budget regularly.

Even if you don’t check in daily, be sure to track your budget at least every few days.

This will help keep you from blowing off course in either direction and also relieve any anxiety you have about not knowing the status of your budget.

Remember that traveling on a budget doesn’t mean having less fun!

Some of our favorite travel experiences cost little to nothing.

Browsing local markets, enjoying a beach day, going for a hike, wandering aimlessly through cities, sampling street food, and more all make for wonderful and incredibly memorable travel days.

Travel budgeting can be daunting when you get started, but once you get used to it, it enhances, rather than detracts from your experiences.

Not only are there wonderful travel experiences to be had at all budgets, but knowing where you are in your trip financially is much less stressful than constantly worrying that you’re over your travel budget… without having the concrete data to confirm either way.

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About Kate Storm

In May 2016, I left my suburban life in the USA and became a full-time traveler. Since then, I have visited 50+ countries on 5 continents and lived in Portugal, developing a special love of traveling in Europe (especially Italy) along the way. Today, along with my husband Jeremy and dog Ranger, I’m working toward my eventual goal of splitting my life between Europe and the USA.

11 thoughts on “How to Budget for a Trip: The Easiest Travel Budgeting Method (+ Tips!)”

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Another small thing to consider would be to convert your daily budget amount to local currency.

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Great info!

Good info. Thanks we will be traveling Italy for 28 days. The last 7 we are staying with friends. We don’t want to rent a car but use trains between towns and subway/buses in the cities. How do I budget for that? Are there month long passes for each? Excluding airfare we have $7000 food/transportation/entrance fees. Does that sound doable? We are flying into Rome, then Florence and take day trips from there, then ending up in Ugento. Any recommendations?

Thanks, Brenda!

You can definitely get around Italy without a car, that’s not a problem at all. $7000 for for 28 days on the ground also sounds reasonable (I’m assuming you’re traveling as a couple).

Trenitalia does have a monthly pass of sorts for trains, similar to the Eurail pass but for Italy only. However, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it without knowing your schedule. Most likely, booking each leg individually is fine.

For short distances in rural areas that you travel by bus, you won’t need online tickets or anything like that. Same for any “local” trains you take, like the slow train between Florence and Bologna. You can buy those tickets step by step as you go, as the prices are set.

Where the prices get higher and you’ll need to budget in advance is for the high-speed train routes around Italy, like from Florence to Lecce, for example. Those trains have dynamic pricing, so if you can book your tickets in advance, you’ll both spend less and be able to budget more easily.

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About USA Holidays - Anyone can take you to the United States of America, but only a few offer an experience that immerses you into the very fabric of USA’s DNA. With Thomas Cook’s USA holiday packages, you are in the driving seat and the roads are simply endless. Choose from USA tour packages, ranging from a quick 4 nights and 5 days to a leisurely 20 nights and 21 days. Sounds like a plan? Well, don’t worry about the costs either as Thomas Cook has USA holidays starting at a pocket friendly INR 1,09,129 to an extravagant INR 7,34,128. Booking a USA tour is as simple as logging onto the Thomas Cook website and packing your bags. Thomas Cook takes away the hassle of planning and organizing a vacation to the USA by letting you customize every aspect of your once in a lifetime USA trip, ensuring it is as memorable as can be. Thomas Cook’s USA tours are expertly designed by travel experts who are passionate travelers themselves. Rest assured, you will see sights and experience destinations in a way that is uniquely Thomas Cook. With comfortable accommodation, delicious food and a range of services to keep you comfy on your USA tour, simply sit back, relax and enjoy. With USA holiday packages available from Mumbai , Bangalore , Chennai , Delhi  and other major cities in India, getting to the USA with Thomas Cook is not only convenient but comfortable and utility-driven too. To top it off, Thomas Cook also offers customizable USA tour packages that cater to your individual needs and preferences, ensuring that your USA trip is nothing short of perfect.

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• Most Popular USA Tour Packages
• Best time to visit USA
• How to reach USA

Best Places to Visit in USA

• Things to Do in USA
• People also ask about USA Tour Packages

Most Popular USA Tour Packages 2024

Best time to visit usa.

USA sparkles in every season. However, if we were to make a recommendation, the best time to visit America would be during the wonderful periods of spring and fall. USA Tour Packages are available for all seasons and can be customized to include the preferred destinations and activities. If you are interested in visiting USA, you can choose from a variety of options that cater to different interests and budgets.

Spring begins in the month of March and lasts up to May. These climate-friendly months enable you to explore the great outdoors with ease and indulge in exhilarating activities such as hiking, biking and camping. Note, in Northern USA, spring comes calling much later. 

Another favorable season in the USA is fall, which begins in the month of September and lasts up to November. The weather during this season is pleasant and cool. You can enjoy activities like camping, rock climbing and mountain driving amidst picture perfect sceneries. You can also witness the delightful Harvest season celebrations that go on in pomp and splendour!

The months of May to September brew summer warmth and hence are considered peak time for tourists. The temperatures vary from region to region, but generally allow for sight-seeing, exploration and celebrations. For a surreal experience like no other, winter brings about enchanting festivities marked by the most beloved Christmas and New Year. It is generally considered as an off season, but the magical aura of this season is such that you will want to partake in it at least once in your life!   USA Packages for winter are also available, with options for experiencing the holiday season in the most enchanting destinations across the country. Book your USA Tour Package today and get ready for an unforgettable experience!

How to Reach USA

Travelling to multi-cultural USA is an easy affair with Thomas Cook. All you have to do is book an air ticket and the rest as they say is travel history! 

You can board a flight from all the major metropolitan cities in India such as Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai to reach USA . These prime airports are well connected to domestic as well as international destinations across the world. Hence, all you need to do is take a flight from any domestic airport in India to the aforementioned cities and you can be on your way to USA!

Select from a wide range of efficient flights that ply from India to the USA with the following popular carriers - Jet Airways, Etihad Airways, Delta Airlines, United Airlines, American Airlines, to name a few. Note - most flights will transit via one or multiple destinations. However, Air India and United Airlines offer nonstop flights from India to the U.S. Upon arrival, you may choose from a number of affordable national carriers to make the inter-city commute. 

Think of the beauty and diversity that’s waiting to be discovered in this multi-faceted and layered country!  Despite being geographically vast, one can explore this nation with the right amount of fervour and enthusiasm. Here’s a comprehensive list of the iconic and world-famous tourist places in the USA. Here are some of the best places to visit in USA during tour:

Miami Miami conjures up images of soft sandy beaches, tall coconut trees, pretty cafes and electrifying skylines. More than being a great city, it is an intense emotion. Walk down its streets and you will come across beautiful pastel coloured buildings and buzzing shopping markets that will make you go gaga! Head to its amazing Cuban restaurants and you will taste authentic flavours that will seduce your palette. Drive by its scenic beaches and you’ll be feeling like a true native! From the highly spirited Little Havana to the hustle-bustle of Calle Ocho, astonishing art festivals and wine spectacles - this city has a never-ending list of things to offer!

Texas You will be surprised to know that Texas is so much more than cowboys, Indians and the Wild Wild West! Thriving music, entrancing museums, cultural exhibits and scrumptious cuisine make this state a hotbed for all things good. Home to 3 NBA teams along with F1, NASCAR and INDYCAR, Texas will not fail to impress the sports fanatic in you. And let’s give due importance to the amazing shopping malls that cater to retail therapy. This is one trip you definitely need to make on your vacation to the USA.

Los Angeles As the second largest city in the USA, Los Angeles offers an array of cultural, historic and recreational diversity, peppered with luxury and glamour. It is a hub for shoppers, playgrounds for aspiring artists and haven for foodies. Movie buffs can wander gleefully through Rodeo Drive and catch glimpses of Hollywood stars in Beverly Hills! In general, one can soak up the sun at the beautiful beaches or party the night away at amazing nightclubs, the choices are infinite!

San Diego Home to vast golden beaches that never end, San Diego is one of America’s choicest cities for a memorable time. Holidaying in San Diego is one of a kind experience for its very atmosphere, landscapes and people exude a sunny disposition. Marvelous attractions such as the Balboa Park, San Diego Zoo, Sea World, Gaslamp Quarter and Cabrillo National Monument add to the allure of this quintessential place on the Pacific coast.  

San Francisco Adventure, relaxation or romance? You name it and we’ll find it at San Fran or Cisco! Fascinating museums, alluring natural landscapes, quirky boutiques and fancy nightclubs, San Francisco will surprise you in more ways than one. Sit on a beach and witness the sunset; it is a sweet dose of happiness! Hop onto a seaplane or cruise the many shop-lined lanes; it is expedition redefined. Ascend or descend the slanting, zig zag streets; it is the epitome of fun!

Las Vegas The apotheosis of party destinations in the world, Las Vegas is panache personified. Themed casinos, opulent hotels, luxury resorts, flashy limousines, dazzling neon signs and eclectic cocktails make up the experience that is Vegas! The Downtown Strip, with its abundant glitz and glamour, is one of the highlights of the city. Don’t forget to witness the light and sound show in Fremont Street. For an out-of-the-world dining experience, the streets of Vegas are full of amazing A-class restaurants. Some stunning views can be witnessed at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. What’s more, the Mob Museum is a must visit!

Washington DC Embossed with proud political monuments, trendy stores, buoyant night clubs, mouth-watering restaurants, classic art galleries and museums – Washington D.C. is a land of infinite experiences. The city depicts vintage assets and narrates great tales of historic times. Here, you will discover the best jazz music and unparalleled architectural beauty. Washington is a trip down memory lane and a walk into the future, both. Now, your American holiday is a kaleidoscopic mix!

Puerto Rico One of the most enchanting places you will ever visit, Puerto Rico is a Caribbean paradise! The powder white shores, sparkling cerulean waters and fluttering palms make up its awe-inspiring landscape. An out-of-the-world underwater experience and a rich culture is what one can expect from this place! From ziplining across hills to basking by cool water bodies, all your adventure fantasies will come true at this amazing place! Witness the vibrant culture, interact with warm locals and soak in nature’s best at this beautiful place during your American holiday!

New York Stay in New York forever, and you’ll still find something new to do every day! The city that never sleeps is a global center for art, theatre, architecture and commerce. Magnificent skyscrapers, heritage monuments, graffiti lanes and exquisite basilicas coexist in perfect harmony. From the hustle-bustle of Times Square to the peaceful charisma of Central Park, New York City will never fail to amaze you with its spirit. The captivating Statue of Liberty, the World-class Museum of Modern Art or MOMA, ethnic enclaves, vogue bars and diners make New York a utopia for everyone! 

Food In the USA How about trying classic fast foods from their very own kitchens, this time? The well-renowned cuisines of the USA are loved throughout the world. Greasy, gooey and crunchy, what’s not to want? Here’s a list of scrumptious, sumptuous bites that you must try on your USA tour. Dishes, here, reflect a mix of cultures from the world over. So, treat your sweet tooth and savoury palette to world class delights! Cheeseburgers Believe it or not, it all started with a small mistake in Pasadena, or so they say... The birth of this legendary fast food took place when a young chef accidentally burned a burger and slammed some cheese on top to cover up his blunder. Enjoy juicy burgers and crispy fries during your USA holiday at the White Castle, Burger King, In-N-Out, McDonald's, Steak N' Shake, Five Guys and the Heart Attack Grill!

Hotdogs A bun, when filled with a succulent sausage and topped off with flavourful sauces and textured relish, is an absolute treat to the taste buds! Enjoy this classic fast-food treat during your USA tour. Grab your hotdog from a food truck or a diner for a rendezvous with heaven!

Nachos Everybody loves crunchy nachos! And what could be better than enjoying these divine triangles with your favourite sides? Sauce, beans or cheese, find an accompaniment that speaks to you. Don’t miss out on this tasty snack during your USA holiday!

Pizza Love served in a square box, the all-American dream! Nothing can go wrong when you’re eating a slice of pizza, especially in the land that catapulted its popularity. A delicious buttery crust loaded with meat, cheese, tomato chunks and authentic Italian spices, nothing satisfies the belly quite like a Chicago-style pizza. 

S’mores Whether you dunk one into your hot chocolate or roast some over a campfire, nothing quite evokes joy and carefreeness quite like this magical American food. Gooey, dreamy, soft and sweet, enjoy this delicacy while camping under the stars… 

Things to Do In USA

Some experiences stay with you for a lifetime! Once in the USA, you can live every dream you’ve ever had and stock up on memories to cherish forevermore. Most USA tour packages will introduce you to the most popular places in the States that will maximise the value of your American holiday. Here’s presenting to you a few activities that you cannot and should not miss out on!  Get a tan in Miami Soak up some rays at beautiful Miami Beach whilst sipping on a fruity mocktail. Go for a fancy dinner at the Bayside Marketplace and let your senses go out to play. Visit the beautiful Jungle Island and spot crocodiles and other exotic animals. Take a stroll through Vizcaya Museum and Gardens and glimpse alluring Renaissance-style architecture. Groove to the vibes and flavours of Little Havana.

Ride a horse in Texas Go horse riding along vast landscapes and spend the night soaking up country music and culture. Get lost at Big Bend National Park and hike the beautiful Chimneys and Marufo Vega trails. Or perhaps, visit the world’s tallest monument column, San Jacinto Monument! Eat deep fried everything at State Fair of Texas - chicken wings, fried lobster with Champagne gravy, funnel cake, bacon, cinnamon rolls and even beer!

Tour Universal Studios in Hollywood Head to the picturesque San Fernando Valley and visit the fascinating Universal Studios. Jump into a world of cinema where the characters come magically to life! Walk along the glitzy stars of Hollywood Walk of Fame and enjoy the artistic masterpieces at the Getty Center. Shop at A-class boutiques on Rodeo Drive and immerse yourself in its chic culture.

Explore Disneyland in LA The home of many beloved cartoon characters from our youth and some new ones too, Disneyland in Los Angeles is a must see on your USA tour. Take a selfie with Mickey, Minnie and Goofy and share some butter beer with Harry Potter and Hagrid later. You cannot visit one without visiting the other and we suggest taking a trip to America just to spend a couple of days at two of these resorts that are famous globally and attract millions of Disney fans.

Wander through Nevada’s Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains is as beautiful as it is rugged and mysterious. It’s famed for its giant, ancient sequoia trees some of which are centuries old and large enough to tunnel through and for the granite cliffs of El Capitan and Half Dome sheer rock faces which attract daredevil climbers from all over the world. Stopping here for a day or camping for two is highly recommended on your tour of the USA.

Take a selfie with an exotic animal in San Diego Excited to try some adrenaline-pumping activities? Head to the Aquatic theme park at SeaWorld in San Diego and enjoy world-class rides and shows. Take a wildlife safari and click amazing pictures of exotic wild animals. Board a cruise or jump onto a hop-on hop-off bus to tour the best attractions, from land and water. Try surfing at Del Mar or visit the astounding Legoland for the inner child in you!  Take a gamble on Vegas Las Vegas is neon dreams and electric nights personified! Take a ride on the High Roller at the LINQ and tour the Grand Canyon Park. Or, visit the Antelope Canyon and Horseshoe bend, Vegas will never fail to amaze you with its dazzling sights. Rent a car and hit the Hoover Dam or simply spend the night sipping on some amazing cocktails and dancing to an array of beats.

See democracy in action at Washington DC Beyond the culture and traditional attractions of this city, you will find amazing nightlife, delightful cuisine and eclectic art scenes. Spend your mornings strolling through the farmer’s market and can later catch a show at the John F. Kennedy Center of Performing Arts. Take a kayaking tour through the Free Willy country and get a chance to witness some Orcas. Experience the best USA trip by touring this cultural hub!

Go kayaking in the glowing waters of Puerto Rico History, adventure and plenty of options in between…  Puerto Rico is pure magic. One of the most beautiful places to visit is Bioluminescent Bay that lights up at night with the blue glow of dinoflagellates. The best way to witness this wondrous scenario is by diving or kayaking - it's like you're in an Avatar movie! Sun-bathe and surf at the western beaches of Rincon and party at vibrant San Juan, during your USA trip! 

Marvel at the Statue of Liberty in New York Visit the monumental structure of the Statue of Liberty and witness the astonishing Time Square building. Step inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and delve into the art and culture of America! Eat a cheeseburger from a food van, take a walk across the famous Brooklyn Bridge or stroll through the beautiful Greenwich Village. Anything is possible in this concrete jungle! 

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What is the Best Time to Visit the USA? The seasons of spring and fall are the best time to visit the USA . The spring season emerges from March to May, while fall is from September to November. The weather during these seasons is conducive and pleasant.  

What Is the USA Famous For? USA is famed for its diverse states that provide unique and multifarious offerings and also its fast food revolution which tickles the taste buds. 

How Far is the USA from Mumbai? USA is about 13,648 km from Mumbai with a flight time of about 20 hours. Although, it can vary according to your layover time.  

What language is spoken in the USA? English is spoken in the USA. Although, accents may vary from place to place. 

What is the USA’s most famous food? Cheeseburgers, French fries, Buffalo wings, donuts, pizza and marshmallows are the most famous fast foods you should not miss out on your USA tour . 

How many days are enough for a USA trip? About a week is enough for an USA trip. However, you can pick from a variety of USA packages depending on your preferences and places you wish to visit. 

What is the cost of a trip to the United States from India? The average cost of a USA trip may vary according to your accommodation choice which will be either luxury or budget-friendly. Check out our USA tour packages from India and choose the best suitable luxury as well as budget-friendly USA packages for your travel. 

How long should a trip to the United States last? The territory of the United States is quite large, with a plethora of destinations to visit. The majority of people choose to visit a specific region or two to three major cities. As a result, 13 days and 12 nights is the ideal length for a USA trip. A 13-day itinerary includes visits to national parks, two or three major cities (including New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Buffalo, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC), and other tourist attractions.

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Creating a travel budget isn’t all about boring spreadsheets and searching for low budget bargains — a finely-crafted budget it is designed to maximize your total travel experience.

Let’s start out easy here. You may have dreams of globetrotting and living your best life in distant lands, but can you actually afford it?

The amount you have to spend on your trip will need to be proportionate to the place you are visiting. By that, we mean that some destinations can be done on the cheap, while others will be a bit more of an investment.

Where you want to stay, what you intend to do when you get there, and physically how far away you will be from home can all have a considerable bearing on how deep your pockets will need to be.

Before you book yourself silly, really break down the potential costs of your dream trip and tally it up with the amount of money you will realistically have to fund it.

Bottom Line: Sometimes, it may be better to put your plans on hold until you have saved up enough cash to really experience a place, rather than rushing to get there and missing out on some of the best bits.

Whether you are a plan-well-in-advance sort of traveler or more of a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of person, there are different ways to approach setting out your budget based on what works best for you.

Plan Your Adventure Well in Advance

The most traditional way to book a vacation is to think of somewhere you want to go, plan your vacation dates, and decide how long you want to stay. This kind of advanced planning is the usual go-to for most travelers, as it allows you to book time off of work or plan trips around school semesters, and gives you the opportunity to firm up plans before you leave.

Knowing when and where you are going also has another key advantage — it gives you plenty of time to save up all the cash you will need to really enjoy your time there. Booking in advance also means you get your choice of cheaper accommodation at better rates.

Book months in advance and you can research your planned itinerary and potential expenditure, and maybe even save enough extra for upgrades of luxuries to make your adventure truly special. This kind of planning is a great incentive for saving hard.

Travel Based on Your Bank Balance

If, on the other hand, you want to take your cash and get the hell out of dodge, you can work backward to identify the most amount of fun you can have for your money. If you are feeling lucky, and you know how much you are willing to spend, the world really is your oyster.

The awesome power of the internet has made impulse traveling even easier, as you can simply hit up any number of booking sites to find an exciting destination, as well as suitable flights, accommodation, and excursions in just a few clicks.

Another great way to make your budget go further is to think outside the box. Visiting popular destinations out of season, taking shorter vacation times, or even looking at places away from the main tourist trail can all make your money go further.

A trip to the legendary Yosemite National Park during April or May, for example, is a great way to experience some of the most iconic open spaces in America before the schools let out, or hit the beaches of Miami or the Florida Keys during September and October when tourists shy away from the increased risk of stormy weather.

You can also look at alternatives to the more traditional resort destinations to get more bang for your buck. Consider a trip to Reno instead of Las Vegas, hit the slopes in Winter Park instead of the sky-high prices in Vail, or take in the history of Williamsburg and avoid the price tags of New York or Los Angeles on your next city break.

To help you plan and keep track of your travel budget we have created a free, handy Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

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Travel Budget Considerations

When planning your travel budget, there are lots of different things to consider. Break down your budget into subsections to make it easier to plan and stick to:

One of the most essential elements of your travel plan will revolve around the legal and local requirements for travel to and from your destination. You must research any visa requirements and restrictions before you fly, and be sure to have all the documentation you need before you leave.

Most countries will have their own individual and very specific entry requirements, and there may be restrictions on how much local currency you can bring with you, as well as how long you can stay.

As a very rough guide, some examples of the requirements for U.S. citizens could include:

• Travel to Europe — If you are traveling to or through any of the main 26 European countries, you must know the requirements of the Schengen Agreement, which eliminates borders and assumes that travelers will be able to enjoy up to 3-months of visa-free travel. This will change in January 2021 with the introduction of the ETIAS .
• Travel to Australia — You must have a valid U.S. passport and an Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) to enjoy up to 90 days of travel in Australia.
• Travel to Central America — You will not need a visa to visit most Central American countries, but you may need a tourist card for some destinations (~$10) to allow stays of up to 90 days visa-free.
• Travel To South Africa — You must have a valid U.S. passport, but do not need a visa for stays of 30 days or less.

Check out our guide to tourist visa information on over 100 countries.

There are many great reasons why you should always buy travel insurance coverage for your trips overseas, and only 1 reason not to. Trust us. If the worst should happen while you are away, you will wish you hadn’t tried to save money by skipping on the insurance, so make sure you always make space for travel insurance in your travel budget .

The best travel insurance policy does not necessarily have to be the most expensive one you find, but it probably won’t be the cheapest either. With this in mind, shop around and speak to a variety of providers before committing to any 1 product.

There will be different levels of coverage available to suit the requirements of every type of traveler, from lone backpackers to family vacations, but at the very least you should try to include:

• Emergency medical expenses
• Repatriation expenses
• Cancellation or curtailment coverage
• Lost baggage coverage
• Travel delay/missed departure coverage
• Journey disruption coverage
• Personal liability coverage
• Legal expenses coverage
• Electronics loss/theft and damage coverage

Depending on where you go, what you’ll be doing, and the nature of your trip, you may want to also consider dedicated financial protection that could include specific coverage for:

• Winter sports coverage
• Terrorism disruption coverage
• Cruise coverage
• Business coverage
• Sports equipment coverage

It is important to remember that the domestic health insurance that you use at home will not necessarily cover you if you get into medical trouble overseas . Don’t leave it to chance — invest wisely in your travel insurance and never skimp on the coverage just to save yourself a few bucks before you go.

You should also look into insurance coverage for your prized electrical items and personal belongings, too . While we would recommend leaving the diamonds at home, unless you are going somewhere exceptionally glamorous, many of us will take expensive electronics with us everywhere we go.

Find coverage that offers repairs or replacement for damaged, broken, lost, or stolen items before you go.

Hot Tip: There are some credit cards with travel insurance , so you might already have some coverage without knowing it!

Some parts of the world pose more of a risk to our health than others. By ensuring that you have all the travel vaccinations you need before you go, you can reduce the risk of developing serious diseases that your immune system may not be used to.

You can pretty much be vaccinated against all of the world’s most common communicable diseases at your local doctor’s office, health care center, or health department, and there will be medical professionals who will be able to provide you with useful information for your trip.

You will need to do your own research before you travel and speak to healthcare providers about the risks. But, as a rough guide to keep in mind when planning your travel budget, here are some of the most common travel vaccinations and their approximate costs:

• Cholera — A single-dose oral vaccine costs around $45.
• Hepatitis A — A single-dose vaccine costs around $115.
• Japanese Encephalitis — 2 doses given 4 weeks apart costs around $290 per injection.
• Meningococcal Disease — This single-dose vaccine is recommended from pre-teenage years and costs around $135.
• Rabies — A series of 3 or 4 injections into the muscles over the course of 4 weeks costs around $3000 for the entire course.
• Typhoid Fever — A single oral dose for anyone over 6 years old costs around $60.
• Yellow Fever — This vaccine is not stocked everywhere, but if you can find a clinic that offers it, you will need a single shot costing as much as $350.
• Malaria — There is no single vaccine, but antimalarial tablets can be taken to reduce the risk of contracting the disease by 90%. These may need to be taken as far as 3 months in advance and can cost anything from $20 a pack up to $260 per pack.

What you need to take with you will depend very much on where you headed. Whether you choose to travel light or max out your luggage allowance is up to you, but there are plenty of ways to help keep costs down when it comes to packing for your next adventure.

Compile a Capsule Wardrobe

Travel guides always bang on about the legendary “capsule wardrobe” — but it literally is a real thing. By taking 7 or 8 items of clothing with you that can be worn in a variety of ways you can dress for days at a time without worrying about overfilling your luggage or maxing out your travel budget.

Choose 2 pants, skirts or jeans, 3 tops, 1 sweater, 1 dress or a smart shirt and a coat or jacket, and you should be pretty much good to go. Throw in beachwear, sports gear, or thermals as-needed and some socks and underwear to see yourself sorted for the duration of your stay.

Another way to keep costs down is to avoid buying new stuff for every vacation . Your favorite bikini, flip flops, party dress, or even hoodie should be shown off time and time again, so never feel the need to replace your vacation clothing unless you really need to.

Here are some destination-specific packing lists:

• Beach Vacation Packing List
• Cruise Vacation Packing List
• Disney Vacation Packing List

If you want to take your travel camera with you, your GoPro for awesome live video, your phone, tablet, laptop, headphones , or any other bits of kit — think carefully about whether or not you really need it.

Taking more expensive gear with you increases the risk of stuff getting lost, broken, or stolen, as well as weighing your luggage down and tying you to charging ports and electrical sockets.

Keeping Clean

Most people like to have their favorite toiletries with them, but save money and space in your luggage by not taking full-size products.

You needn’t even worry about wasting money on cute little travel size products either. Simply decant your full-size bottles and pots into smaller travel containers instead . This is super easy to do, meets with TSA regulations, and saves you a few dollars here and there.

Alternatively, buy what you need when you arrive. Most destinations and airports will have plenty of shops to choose from. One area where you shouldn’t cut costs, however, is sunscreen. Buy the best you can, ideally from a trusted brand, before you leave.

Finally, check if the airline you are using charges extra for checked baggage and if so, see if you can get away with just a carry-on case instead.

The amount you pay for your flights will vary widely depending on a wide number of variants, including:

• Your destination
• Who you choose to fly with
• Whether you fly direct
• Whether you fly return or one-way
• The day of the week and time of day that you fly, and even the time of year
• Where you fly from
• When you book

There are many different ways to fly around the skies, but here are some ways to bag cheaper flights :

• Use Points and Miles — If you aren’t accumulating points to fly, read this beginner’s guide to get started.
• Book as Early as You Can — Flights often significantly increase in price within 3 weeks of the departure date.
• Stay Flexible — Flights leaving on different days or at times of day can be cheaper than others.
• Don’t Dismiss Discount Airlines — Short journeys, internal flights, and even some international journeys can be way cheaper on discount, no-frills airlines.
• Sign Up and Shop Around — Sign up with airlines direct to be notified of discounts and flash sales, and be sure to check in on all airlines that fly to your preferred destination.
• Use Aggregation Sites — Sometimes this is a winner, sometimes it isn’t — but don’t be afraid to try. Sites like Kayak or Skyscanner can be good, but don’t just accept the first price they give you.
• Buy Connecting Flights — It can be cheaper to buy 2 separate connecting flights than a direct 1. Check your destination and see who stops where along the route.

Again, how much you spend on where you stay is entirely up to you. Keeping costs down can be harder in large cities or expensive beach resorts, but there are ways to rest your head without losing your mind over the cost of it all.

Whether you are going for an all-out 5-star luxury or a family-friendly motel room, there are always deals to be had. Book direct through the hotel, include weeknights or a Sunday night in your stay, and be flexible on location.

Hot Tip: A hotel just outside of town, for example, will offer more attractive nightly rates and free parking and will usually represent better value for money than a downtown hotel will.

Renting a private home or vacation apartment on a short term basis can be much more affordable than a hotel. You can also find some superb properties for rent, complete with everything you need to enjoy your stay.

Fully-equipped kitchens, parking, TVs, and even pools often come standard and depending on your destination, there are lots of great Airbnbs and other holiday rental websites available.

If you are heading to the coast, the backcountry, or just getting out into the great outdoors, camping can completely transform your experience. Many campsites come complete with showers and cooking facilities and even pools, sports facilities, and fitness centers. You can take your own tent or rent one.

Another great way to save money on accommodation is to look at hostels in the area. A far cry from old fashioned student accommodation, many modern hostels are clean, bright, and modern and offer a combination of dorm-style bedrooms and private double or family rooms with en-suite facilities.

Hot Tip: Hostels are a great way to stay right in the middle of some of the most expensive cities in the world.

Rent a Recreational Vehicle

Another great choice if you are heading out on the open road, RVs can save you a fortune as you literally take your accommodation with you. RV trips are fun, family-friendly, and provided you aren’t always in a gas station, a great way to save money on where you stay.

RVshare and Outdoorsy are 2 companies that rent out campers and RVs.

You can pretty much rent any kind of vehicle , anywhere in the world. Although if you are staying in a city, public transport is a much more useful and affordable proposition.

The same rules also apply to some intercontinental trips, as well. For example, it can be easier and cheaper to travel through Europe using trains and buses than worrying about having to take care of a car when you get there.

If you want to explore out of the way destinations, hard to reach beaches, or just like the idea of being free to come and go as you please, car hire is readily available in most corners of the world.

Before you commit to it, think about the rental fees, fuel costs, and other potential expenditures and compare the costs of using public transport in your chosen destination.

Car hire here in the U.S. will vary depending on the type of car you choose and how long you intend to hire it. Small city cars are the most cost-effective, and big SUVs, 4x4s and luxury cars can also be hired if you have deep pockets.

When it comes to car rental, keep your costs down by:

• Booking your vehicle in advance
• Looking outside the airport as you may get a better deal in town
• Choosing a practical vehicle to suit your needs, not your dream supercar
• Being aware of mileage limits and one-way fees
• Use a credit card with car rental insurance , so you can be ready to turn down unnecessary add-ons and cross-sells that you don’t need
• Making sure the vehicle is checked for damage before you take the keys
• Only hiring it for as long as you need it
• Keeping your eyes out for deals on particular types of car, and better prices for longer-term rentals

Most tourist hotspots, big towns, cities, and even some iconic landmarks will offer a wide range of public transport options to get you around. There will be more choice and more frequent services in highly populated areas, while services may become more restricted further out in the countryside or suburbs.

If you are clever, you could save yourself a small fortune by grabbing good deals on public transport, leaving you with more cash to spend on the fun things in life.

Try these to tips for traveling around town on the cheap:

• Buy daily, weekly or even monthly travel passes in advance
• Bulk buy tickets online or via an app
• Take advantage of student passes or discounted fares for families, seniors, or children
• Avoid traveling during peak commuter times
• Services like Greyhound offer cheaper fares for mid-week journeys
• Sign up for early notification of flash sales and other promotional codes and discounts

Wherever you are headed, there will no doubt be plenty of things to do and places to see when you get there. The key to not missing a single thing is researching everything before you leave.

Have a plan in place of all the activities you want to take part in and the attractions you want to see and integrate the potential entrance costs, additional fees, and other expenses into your initial budget.

With a bit of luck, you will be able to find plenty of local discounts, city passes, and money-saving ways to see all of the very best attractions at rock bottom prices.

Pick up a copy of the local listings magazine or newspaper and check out free events , as well as using the coupons and discount codes they supply for all kinds of attractions. You can also subscribe to online discount sites like Groupon to find discounted ticket prices.

Historical landmarks, museums , art galleries, theme parks , sporting events, concerts, and many more attractions often offer reduced entrance prices at off-peak times or group discounts to entice visitors in. Some even have a free entrance day once a month.

Big cities often have lots of free entertainment on offer, too. Check out the artsy districts of major cities for street entertainers and free shows. If you are heading to the beach, research costs such as sunbed rental, locker rental, and even the menus at local restaurants to gauge an idea of how much a day on the beach could potentially cost you.

If you want to try your hand at surfing, sailing, or other kinds of water sports, you may want to get back on the internet and find reduced price lessons or discounts for group bookings.

While you may have budgeted every dollar down to the last cent, you should also keep a contingency plan for some pocket money . Days out in the town, lazy afternoons on the beach, or even a trip on a planned excursion can present you with lots of little unknown expenses.

Whether you need to buy an extra bottle of water, some sunscreen for your face, or entrance to additional attractions, keeping a little cash on you is a good way to be prepared.

Large amounts of cash should never be carried about your person while you are out exploring, but a couple of dollars stashed into your pocket or travel wallet and can be incredibly useful.

In order to keep your money safe, you should:

• Never flash wads of cash
• Keep your notes and loose change somewhere safe like your inside pocket or in a money belt
• Carry small denomination notes and coins
• Understand the local currency you are carrying, so you known how much to give over when paying

Walk-around money is simply a little buffer to keep you going, but set yourself a daily budget and stick to it.

These days, almost everyone travels at some point. This means that those unusual and unique products that we used to buy as souvenirs are no longer as sought after as they once were.

Nearly every tourist destination on earth will be able to sell you tacky bits and pieces for you to take home, but savvy travelers bypass these and look for more personalized and unique mementos to take home with them instead.

Bottom Line: A t-shirt here, a guide book there, and lots of little bits and pieces in between can soon add up. Spend wisely, and if you must buy gifts and souvenirs, choose ones that have a special meaning to you, that you can treasure forever.

To help make your research easier, some clever folks who have traveled before you have made websites that can help you to research and plan every single aspect of your next big adventure and what the costs involved may be.

Budget Your Trip

Budget Your Trip is a huge repository of travel costs that have been hand-gathered from thousands of travelers, and now provides an incredibly comprehensive guide to how much your trip will really cost you.

You can create and personalize your very own travel budget once you register with the website. You can also pick up tons of top travel tips and advice for both new and experienced travelers alike.

Nomad List offers a heap of resources and information for remote workers, digital nomads, and travelers, Nomad List is designed to help users navigate the world. Find information on thousands of destinations, places to work, neighborhoods to stay, and even make new friends before you go.

A great site for anyone who wants to work and travel for longer-term adventures, you can ask questions and arrange meet-ups to touch base with other like-minded wanderers.

This clever little website has 1 goal in mind — to let you know exactly how much money you really need to stay at your dream destination. Expatistan offers direct comparisons between different locations and the website is essentially a giant cost-of-living database that is updated and improved on a regular basis.

Using collaborative information garnered from expats from all over the world, this website really will give you the lowdown of where you can, and can’t, afford to be.

Keeping track of your expenses using your bank balance alone can be a real pain. A dedicated travel money app will help you to keep control of your finances, even when you can’t check the internet. Here are some of the best:

Trail Wallet

This easy to use expense tracker is a great way to keep an accurate record of your finances on the go. Designed to be incredibly intuitive and easy to use, you can make a note of all your expenses in a way that makes the best sense to you. Set up daily spending limits, view records of your recent outgoings, and upload images of receipts for multiple trips with custom start and end dates.

Perfect for use both at home and away, this clever little app will even let you input amounts in local currencies from over 200 countries , and you can update the app with the current exchange rate.

Trail Wallet can be used on both iPhone and iPad and is free for up to 25 items, or unlock unlimited amounts for continuous travel with the $4.99 upgrade.

Trabee Pocket

Trabee Pocket is available on both iOS and Android, and you can choose between the free version or additional services in the paid-for version. Even with the basic version, you can add the details of as many expenses as you like, covering various trips and destinations. You can choose your currency, and there are 8 basic categories to file your virtual expenses under.

You can add images of the physical receipt and produce an expense report and breakdown of expenditure using the data from each category . The upgrade costs around $2.49, and you can add multiple currencies and additional customized categories.

All in all, Trabee Pocket is sleek and an easy to use app that helps you to see how much you are spending and where you are spending it.

TripCoin is a concise and easy to use app that is available on iOS only. It is free to download , and there are no upgrade options at the present time. This smart app allows you to keep tabs on your spending at the touch of a button while making is super easy to add new entries when you need to.

Summary reports can quickly be compiled to let you see progress reports and spreadsheets, and you can even export the data to Excel, Numbers, Open Office, or Google to keep your inner accountant happy anywhere in the world.

Wally was designed to help anyone to manage their finances, anywhere in the world easily. It promises to offer a simple, seamless tool that works in an intuitive way, making it super easy to keep track of your money on the move.

The basic version allows you to add details of all of your regular incoming and outgoings as well as inputting your day to day expenditure, creating groups to manage joint accounts, and splitting payments with your friends when you need to.

It can be set to your local currency and lets you divide your outgoings into easy to find pre-set categories. Available on both iOs and Android, you can upgrade to the paid-for version for $24.99 a year to enjoy unlimited trips and categories.

This is a brilliant invention for anyone traveling with friends. Available on both iOS and Android, you can download it for free, but an in-app upgrade is available to Splitwise Pro. No more scrambling around with a pen and paper to split the bill, this app allows you and your buddies to keep track of your shared expenses and balances at the touch of a button.

You can add a bill, and choose how to split it, or send text or email requests to remind your friends and family that payments are now due. You can also categorize your expenses, calculate amounts in over 100 different currencies, and even sync all of your expenditures with the Cloud.

If you want to keep a more detailed record of your accounts, this little app will also export the data into easy to read CSV reports.

Before you worry about how to manage your finances while you are away, you will need to devise a plan that gives you the funds to get you there in the first place. Unless you have been blessed with a sudden windfall or a lottery win, you will need to save your cents to achieve your goals.

Set a Savings Timeline

If you receive a regular wage, or you are able to forecast your earnings accurately, you can start to set a timeline on how long it will take you to save up for your vacation . If you put aside just $100 a month, for example, you will be able to have $1200 to play with in just a year. This amount may not pay for a new life abroad, but it could you buy a week by the ocean.

Bottom Line: Think of where you want to go to, find out how much it will cost, and then set a monthly savings goal and stick to it. Some months you may have to sacrifice on your social life or shopping habits, but it will all be worth it in the end.

Multiple Savings Accounts

Once you know how much you need to save each month, be sure to physically remove that money from your day to day bank account. Set up at least 1 separate savings account and electronically move it , or set up an automated payment to leave your regular account on payday.

Visualization

Re-train your brain to save instead of spend, and you will be able to tally up every cent you save with something amazing . Your first $150 saved, for example, could mean that you have those tickets for that boat party in Miami in the bag, or that you are on your way to paying for a 4-star hotel instead of a mid-range one.

Whether you are dreaming of trekking up the Himalayas, backpacking around Asia, Interailing through Europe , or a long-awaited family vacation, seeing what your savings can afford will super motivate you to save more.

Wherever you are planning on traveling to, being in control of your finances will make your experience even more amazing. Worrying about getting into debt on your credit cards or not having the cash in your pocket to really explore the region will ruin your adventures.

Save hard, spend well, and look for ways to save money across every aspect of your trip. Plan your spending before you go and keep track of your expenditure while you travel. There are deals to be had on flights, accommodation, food, attractions, and almost every area of your next vacation. Plan in advance and enjoy knowing that you are having the best time for less.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where can i travel with a low budget.

There are plenty of excellent places to travel on a low budget. Here are some great options:

• South Africa

How much should I budget for a trip?

There are lots of factors that make up how much you should budget for a trip. Where you are going, the time of year, your travel style, what you want to do, and how long are you going for are just some of the considerations. It’s best to work out exactly what the trip would cost, cut out anything you can do without, and go from there.

How do I stick to a budget while traveling?

The best way to stick to a budget while traveling is to keep track of all your expenses so you know exactly where you are against your budget. The easiest way of doing this is to use a travel budget and expenses up like Trail Wallet, Trabee Pocket, or Tripcoin.

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Amar is an avid traveler and tester of products. He has spent the last 13 years traveling all 7 continents and has put the products to the test on each of them. He has contributed to publications including Forbes, the Huffington Post, and more.

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October 19, 2022 | 3 min read

Planning a big trip can be stressful, especially when you’re trying to do it on a budget. But knowing what you can afford, what you’ll need to spend and how to avoid overspending can help maximize the fun and minimize the stress. Here are a few ideas for building a travel expenses budget so you can feel as good about your finances as you do about your itinerary.

Start at home

If you don’t stick to an overall spending budget, you may find it hard to build and keep a travel budget. So start by figuring out exactly how you spend at home, making sure you have enough left over each month to put away in a savings account . If you don’t, search your budget for places to save. If you’re spending too much on á la carte workout classes or a gym membership, try online workout classes or free forms of exercise like running, biking and hiking to help keep costs down. Or hunt your bank statement for subscriptions , digital or otherwise, that you never use and cancel them. Once you’ve started padding your savings account, you’ll feel more confident about planning a big trip and building a budget for it.

Analyze that spending

The simplest way to figure out what you’ll spend on a trip is to look hard at where your money went on a previous trip. Using the website or app for your bank and credit cards, find every expenditure related to the trip, from your airfare to your cab ride home from the airport. Include things you bought for your trip (like new walking shoes or sunscreen) and things you bought during your trip (like souvenirs or dinner). Then, build a spreadsheet that summarizes what you spent in each category. It’s not the most fun evening activity, but analyzing past spending will offer a glimpse into how much you spent on food, drinks, taxis and other categories, helping you plan for your next trip.

If you’ve never traveled or are traveling abroad for the first time, you can still plan your travel budget. Using the categories in the next section and a little online sleuthing, you can do your best to estimate your trip costs. On your next trip, consider getting receipts as emails whenever possible, and take photos of your paper receipts. It can help you analyze your spending the next time around.

What travel expenses to budget for

If you’re not an experienced traveler, you may not know exactly how to budget for travel. So, start with categories. Imagine your trip from start to finish, focusing on how you’ll spend money along the way. As you go, create a travel budget worksheet that puts your spending into buckets. Those buckets will depend on where you’re traveling and how you like to travel. Planning an all-inclusive beach vacation will require different categories than a trip to a national park. But generally, the categories in your trip budget should include:

• Transportation. This includes how you get to and from your destination and how you get around when you get there. These days, many people are opting out of airplanes and trains in favor of more personal forms of travel, like rental cars. Make sure you’re taking these choices into consideration when you budget for things like gas, food pit stops, and prepping your car for a lot of road time. Then check out your options for how you’ll travel when you arrive—taxis, Lyfts, public transportation or just walking. It could be a good idea to add in some cushion in case your transportation needs shift once you get there.
• Lodging, including taxes and fees. This could be a big chunk of change, but luckily, you should know exactly how much it is before you leave.
• Food and drink. This depends on a lot of factors, including how you like to eat, where you’re traveling and how much you expect to tip. If you’re more comfortable grabbing take out or getting delivery, make sure you’re taking those extra fees into account.
• Activities like museum tickets, tours, excursions, golf outings, etc.
• Souvenirs—anything you might buy on your trip that you wouldn’t buy at home.

Look for places to save

Once you see how you spend, you may discover that traveling costs a lot more than you realize. If so, you may want to try traveling more cheaply.

Say your last trip included hundreds of dollars in spending on Lyft or taxis. Price out what it would cost to rent a car for the length of your trip, which is often the cheaper option.

Maybe your dinner bills regularly reached $100 on your last trip. Use local food blogs and magazines to seek out small, local eateries and street food vendors that will capture the local flavor while keeping your dinner tab manageable. Also consider staying near a farmers market or small grocery store, so you can try your hand at cooking meals with local ingredients.

Airfare often is the biggest expenditure on a trip budget, and right now, a lot of people just don’t feel comfortable with it. Instead, think about traveling by car. If you’re traveling with friends, make sure you’re keeping track of gas usage so you can split the cost later. Scope out the parking situation beforehand so you know where you can safely leave your car without racking up too high of a garage fee or getting an unexpected parking ticket.

Consider a staycation instead. If traveling away from home is something you don’t feel comfortable with right now or if it just isn’t in your current budget, planning a staycation could be a good alternative. You can still plan fun activities around the neighborhood, get your favorite take-out or go to your favorite local spot, or even set up a tent in the backyard. Finding some R&R with a staycation can give you the feeling of getting away, while being a lighter touch on your budget.

Adjust on the fly

Analyzing your spending after one trip might help you plan for the next. But it won’t keep you from sticking to your budget while you’re traveling. So, if money is tight, consider tracking your spending while you travel and comparing it daily against your trip budget planner.

One way to rein in your spending is to designate a daily budget for food, drinks and other costs. You may even set aside that amount in cash each day, so you know exactly how much you spend. Just be sure to bring along a debit card or credit card in case of an emergency.

Then, every afternoon, when you’re not wiped out but can use a short break, take a few minutes to see what you’ve spent. If you’ve overspent on food or drinks, consider something lighter for dinner. If you’ve already hit your target for activity spending, plan your next day around free sights. If you’re traveling somewhere that allows access to your favorite banking or budgeting app , use that. If not, bring a printout of your budget and just jot down what you spend in a notebook, then take a few minutes to compare.

If you stay on top of things, you might find it easier to stay on budget until your head hits the pillow the second you arrive home. You may even find that you have enough left over to start planning your next big adventure.

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Travel expenses list: A guide to managing your travel budget

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A travel expenses list is essential for mapping and managing your travel budget. It helps ensure you don’t overspend or underestimate the cost of your trip. You can keep track of planned and unplanned expenses, ensuring they fit within your overall budget.

Unfortunately, for most travelers, budgeting isn’t easy. The cost of airfare, accommodation, and meals vary greatly and can quickly add up. Without an organized strategy in place, it’s all too easy to blow your budget and end up with a mountain of debt.

Learn in this comprehensive guide the basics of creating a travel expenses list, including transportation, accommodations, food & beverage, and activities, and offer advice on saving money while traveling.

1. Transportation

Transportation costs refer to all your costs of moving from point A to point B. They account for the biggest chunk of most travel budgets and include:

Many travelers, especially those traveling for business purposes, prefer booking flights due to convenience, speed, and cost-effectiveness. Airfare is the amount you pay for the plane ticket and can vary greatly depending on the airline, route, and time of year. However, there are other additional airport expenses, such as luggage, taxes, and transfers you must factor into your budget. 

Car rental and gas

You may need a rental car at the destination to help you get around, especially if you plan to explore the area and take side trips. Depending on where you’re going and for how long, renting a car might be more cost-effective than using public transportation, taxis, or rideshares — factor in the rental cost, insurance, and gas. 

Other additional fees include parking fees, tolls, and pit stops on the road. If you’ll be driving a lot, look into getting a fuel-efficient car and research the average cost of gas in the area.

Public transit

Public transportation is typically the cheapest way to get around a city, especially if you plan on taking multiple trips. It includes subways, buses, ferries, and trains, each with its own rate. Buses, metro, and train tickets vary in price depending on the region. 

Consider buying a day pass or multipass to save transport money if you plan on taking multiple trips. Most cities also offer rideshare services like Uber and Lyft, which can be more cost-effective than driving a personal vehicle. Research the public transit options available at your destination to see which fits your budget.

Parking fees and tolls

If you plan to drive a lot during your trip, you might have to pay parking fees and tolls. Parking fees vary depending on the city and are usually hourly or daily. Some cities have free street parking but most paid lots and garages charge a fee. 

Tolls are charges for using certain roads and bridges. You can pay the tolls in advance or use a toll pass for the duration of your trip. Other expenses associated with car rentals include insurance, gas, and repairs.

2. Accommodations

Accommodation expenses are the costs of staying at a place during your trip. They include hotel stays, Airbnb rentals, hostels, and campsites. The prices vary depending on the accommodation type, amenities, and location — research various options to determine what works best for your budget.

Hotels and resorts

Hotels and resorts are the most common option for short-term stays. They can range from budget-friendly motels to luxurious five-star hotels and offer a range of amenities like swimming pools, spas, saunas, and fitness centers. 

Their prices depend on the location, star rating, and amenities. You will incur additional fees for hotel room service, extra beds, laundry, and other services. Book in advance or use hotel rewards and loyalty programs to save money .

Bed and breakfast (B&B) expenses

Bed and breakfast establishments offer a more affordable and intimate experience than hotels. They can range from private rooms in someone’s home to luxurious properties with multiple bedrooms. 

Prices usually include bed and breakfast, but you may be charged for extra amenities like housekeeping, dry cleaning, and Wi-Fi. Unlike hotels, you’ll be dealing directly with the owner, so it’s essential to read reviews and ask questions before booking.

Meal expenses also account for a considerable chunk of your travel budget, so it’s important to plan ahead and budget accordingly. How much money you spend on food depends on where you’re going, the type of food you like, and how often you plan to eat out. 

Local cuisine is usually the cheapest option, so find places that offer authentic dishes. Bringing snacks such as nuts, energy bars, and trail mix is always a good idea. You can save money by snacking instead of buying expensive meals. Ordinary meal expenses include:

Restaurants and dining out

Restaurant dining is the most common way to eat while on vacation or a business trip, but it can be costly. Prices vary depending on the type of restaurant, cuisine, and location. Fine dining establishments charge premium prices for their food and drinks, while casual eateries and fast food joints are more affordable. Check out local restaurants and read reviews before going out. Deals such as discounts for early birds or happy hours are creative ways to help you save on these expenses.

Street food and vendors

Street food is a popular option for travelers who want to indulge in the local culture and cuisine. Street vendors often serve traditional dishes at low prices. You can find food carts or stalls selling sandwiches, kebabs, tacos, and other dishes. However, be mindful of food safety and hygiene protocols to avoid getting sick. Research average prices for the area to make sure you’re not being overcharged.

Coffee and beverages

Coffee and beverages are usually the least expensive items on the menu. You can find coffee shops and cafes selling specialty drinks, like lattes, cappuccinos, and frappuccinos, at a fraction of the price of restaurants. 

Most places also offer tea, smoothies, juices, and other non-alcoholic drinks. Local markets will usually have cheaper options for bottled water and other beverages. For alcoholic drinks, look for local breweries, pubs, and bars and take advantage of happy hours and specials to save money.

Tipping and service charges

Tipping is common in many countries and is expected for certain services, such as restaurant meals and hotel stays. The tip amount varies depending on the quality of service and local customs. It’s usually 15-20% for a meal, but you can check with the restaurant or your server if in doubt. 

Service charges come with the bill and should be indicated on the menu. Allocate a portion of your travel budget to cover tips and service charges. Staff at hotels, restaurants, and other establishments rely on tips for their income, so be generous when you can.

4. Activities and entertainment

A vacation wouldn’t be complete without some fun and entertainment. You can find inexpensive or free activities to do depending on where you’re traveling. Museums, galleries, and other cultural attractions are usually free or have discounted admission for students and seniors. Typical expenses for activities and entertainment:

Sightseeing and attractions

Sightseeing is a big part of many people’s travel plans. Historical and cultural attractions, like monuments, churches, and museums, are usually the most popular sightseeing destinations. You can also visit theme parks, zoos, aquariums, and art galleries. 

Prices vary depending on the type of attraction, and access passes are usually cheaper than buying tickets for individual attractions. You can pay a small fee to take historical tours from locals, while in certain cities, free walking tours are also available.

Organized tours and excursions

The best and most fun-filled way to see a new place is to join an organized tour or excursion. Most cities have tours that take you to the must-see sights and attractions but you can also book day trips to castles, vineyards, or nature reserves. 

An organized tour covers entrance fees, transport, and sometimes meals. Compare rates and read customer reviews to find the best value for your money.

Outdoor activities

Outdoor activities like hiking, biking, and water sports are great ways to explore the local landscape. Many national parks and forests have trails for biking, horseback riding, and climbing. 

Some parks offer guided tours with experienced instructors. The guided tours usually include equipment rentals and safety gear, but you may incur park entrance or permit fees for certain activities.

Shows and performances

If you’re looking for a bit of culture, shows, and performances are a great way to spend an evening. Theaters and opera houses often have discounted prices for matinee shows or special performances. 

If you’re staying in a city, look out for street performers and enjoy free outdoor concerts. Cinemas are usually cheaper than live performances, so you can taste the local culture without breaking your budget.

Spa and wellness

Spa treatments are a great way to re-energize after a long flight or an intense sightseeing session. Some hotels offer complimentary spa treatments, while others have special deals for guests. 

Try a local massage parlor or a yoga studio if you want something more affordable. You will pay from a few dollars to hundreds, depending on your chosen services. Spa services usually include massages, facials, saunas, and steam rooms.

5. Shopping and souvenirs

Bringing back souvenirs is a fun part of any trip, but it can be easy to overspend on gifts for yourself and your loved ones. The cost of souvenirs depends on where you’re traveling and the type of item you want to buy. It’s common to bargain or haggle for lower prices in some places. Research the local currency and market prices to avoid getting ripped off. 

Travelers should also be aware of import laws and customs regulations. There may be restrictions on certain items such as food, alcohol, and tobacco.

6. Emergency and unprecedented expenses

Despite how well you plan your trip, there may be unexpected costs. Unforeseen events, such as a life-threatening medical emergency or natural disaster, can result in high expenses. Budget for emergency funds and purchase travel insurance to cover any medical costs or unexpected losses. 

Carry enough cash for emergencies, and use a debit or credit card for international purchases. Also, double-check your documents to ensure you have all the necessary visas and permits before your trip.

7. Currency exchange rates

Exchange rates make a huge difference when transferring money or paying in foreign currency. Compare current rates with those from the booking time to ensure you get the best deal. Check with your local bank or credit card provider for their rates and fees. 

You can also look up online currency converter tools to see how much you spend in your home currency. Be aware of hidden charges when exchanging money. Such hidden charges include ATM fees, commissions, and other administrative costs that can quickly add up.

Tips for managing travel expenses

Proper travel expense management is critical to a successful and enjoyable trip. Planning ahead and budgeting for each expense will help you manage your travel expenses.

Set daily spending limits and monitor your expenses

Estimate your total budget for the trip and then divide it into daily spending limits. This will help you stay on budget while still allowing you to enjoy the activities and attractions. Monitor your personal expenses throughout the trip to ensure you don’t exceed the budget.

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With so many places to see in this vast country, it will be hard to decide where you need to start when it comes to exploring most of the places on your trip to the USA. In the USA, some cities are known for their history and culture, while others are popular for their glamour and fun, offering travellers a broad spectrum to choose from. However, the best places to visit in the USA will totally depend on your personal interests. To streamline your plan to experience an America Trip , considering USA Holiday Packages could be the key to efficiently exploring the diverse landscape of this incredible nation. Located on the Eastern Seaboard, Washington, D.C., and New York offer two completely different city experiences. So, if you want to discover the city sights or head out to the natural areas and parks, you can combine two or three spots in a day trip. Los Angeles and San Francisco, situated on the West Coast, offer some amazing spots for tourists. Las Vegas brings up stunning desert locations located in the southwestern part of the USA, and for travellers wanting to experience the world’s greatest splendour, they must not miss the chance to discover the beauty of the Grand Canyon. If you are planning your next vacation to America, considering the USA trip cost from India and exploring different available American packages will let you stay within your budget.

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1. new york.

What’s Special: Times Square, 9/11 Memorial, Statue of Liberty

Nearby Attractions: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, Empire State Building, Theatre District

Timings: Though the day

Distance From City: 19.56 kms

Transportation Options: Connected to NYC Public Transportation Network for air trains, Shared shuttles, private cabs

No trip to the USA is complete without adding New York to the itinerary. New York is where the world meets the US. The city is home to many iconic structures and hosts a culture that is both bustling and intriguing. From museums to theatres and fine-dining to lip-smacking street food, the city has it all to lure people and make them stay. Moreover, New York is also an incredible destination to party and have a good time. The art and architecture of this city is also another thing that intrigues many globetrotters.

2. Los Angeles

What’s Special: Food, shopping, nightlife, biking and hiking, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Beaches

Nearby Attractions: Disneyland, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, The Getty, Santa Monica Pier, Universal Studios of Hollywood, Griffit Observatory

Timings: Entire day

Distance From City: 28 kilometres

Transportation Options: Rental car, freeways, Metro

Los Angeles is the heart of Hollywood. If you are intrigued by the many creations of Hollywood, then Los Angeles is the destination that you must visit on your trip to the US. Moreover, the city is also home to many intriguing places that one can visit. Some of these include the Getty Center, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Third Street Promenade, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Runyon Canyon Park, Walt Disney Concert Hall, etc.

3. Las Vegas

What’s Special: Museums, Art Galleries, Casinos, nightlife, romantic spots

Nearby Attractions: Fremont Street Experience, Fountain Show, Gondola Rides, Caesar’s Palace, High Roller Ferris Wheel

Timings: 24 hours

Distance From City: 10.37 kilometres

Transportation Options: luxury cars, private transfers, shared shuttles

Las Vegas is the party capital of the US and is also one of the most populated cities of the country. Las Vegas is best known for incredible nightlife, gambling, and luxurious shopping. However, that is just one half of the story. The city is also known for helicopter rides, gondola rides, Madame Tussaud's wax museum, indoor skydiving, etc. Some of the must-visit places in Las Vegas include Caesar's Palace, High Roller Ferris Wheel, Fremont Street, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Madame Tussaud's, etc.

4. San Francisco

What’s Special: Parks, Museum of modern art, Lombard Street, National Monument

Nearby Attractions: Alcatraz Islands, Golden Gate Bridge, Cable cars, Palace of Fine Arts, Chinatown

Timings: Throughout the day

Distance From City: 0 kms

Transportation Options: Private cars

San Francisco is where you will find the best beaches and museums. Moreover, the history of the city speaks volumes too. The city was founded in 1776. The city also hosts many festivals and events such as the San Francisco International Film Festival, Chronicle Wine Tasting Event, Pacific Orchid Expo, NYE Fireworks Over the Bay, etc.

5. Washington DC

What’s Special: Monuments, National Malls, White house, Space Museums, Art Galleries

Nearby Attractions: National Gallery of Art, The White House, The Lincoln Memorial, National Air and Space Museum

Timings: Through the day

Distance From City: 9 kilometers

Transportation Options: Private cars, shared shuttles

Well-known as the capital of the US, Washington is home to many things that speak a ton about the culture of the country. Some of the things that you can explore in the city for free are the National Gallery of Art, Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens, Renwick Gallery, etc. Here, one can also find the finest beer.

6. Niagara Falls

What’s Special: Tallest falls in the world, the combination of the height and volume of water

Nearby Attractions: Niagara Falls State Park, Skylon Tower. Journey Behind the Falls, Caves of the Winds, Horseshoe Falls.

Timings: 3:47 am

Distance From City: 112 kilometers

Niagara Falls is a magnificent waterfall situated at an elevation of 99 meters. It is one of the most visited spots in the US. A group of three waterfalls constitutes Niagara Falls, the name of which are American Falls, Canadian Falls, and Bridal Veil Falls. On special occasions such as St. Patrick’s Day, one can witness amazing light shows and fireworks. Therefore, making it a sight to behold.

What’s Special: Beaches, national parks, marketplace

Nearby Attractions: Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami Seaquarium, Perez Art Museum Miami, Ocean Drive, Jungle Islands, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden, The Bass, Wynwood Walls

Distance From City: 8 kms

Transportation Options: Shared Shuttle, private cars

Also known by the name of Magic City, Miami is best known for its white-sand shoreline and skiing clubs. It is also termed as one of the best sites to partake in scuba diving. The city offers you a bit of everything. Miami is bestowed with the beauty of beautiful urban landscapes along with gardens and museums. Apart from all this, the city is also a forever lit place for beach parties and nightlife. It also hosts a plethora of festivals and events throughout the year, therefore, it is suggested that do a little research and plan your trip accordingly.

8. Vancouver

What’s Special: Parks, Islands, beaches

Nearby Attractions: Capilano Suspension

Distance From City: 29 kilometres

Transportation Options: Buses, Trains

Vancouver is a city in the state of Washington. This city is best visited by people who adore history. Here, you will find many museums filled with intriguing artifacts. Vancouver Lake is another place that lures globetrotters.

9. Honolulu

What’s Special: State monument, nature preserve, Waterfalls, zoo

Nearby Attractions: Lolani Palace, Diamond Head, Hanauma Bay, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor National Memorial, Bishop Museum, Manoa Falls, Honolulu Zoo, Ala Moana Centre

Distance From City: 8 kilometres (approx)

Transportation Options: Buses, private cars

Honolulu is your getaway to nonstop fun in the state of Hawaii. The state capital treats you with amazing nightlife, picturesque shoreline, lip-smacking street food, and fine shopping outlets. There is plenty that you can partake in Honolulu. Some of the top places to visit in Honolulu are Waikiki Beach, Honolulu Surfing, Battleship Missouri, National Memorial Cemetery Of The Pacific, USS Arizona Memorial, and Pearl Harbor, etc. In all, Honolulu is a perfectly laid back destination that is ideal for any type of vacation.

10. Chicago

What’s Special: Millennium Park, water show, museums

Nearby Attractions: The Art Institute of Chicago, Navy Pier, Field Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, Shedd Aquarium, Millennium Park, Willis Tower, Lincoln Park Zoo, Cloud Gate.

Distance From City: 12 kilometres

Transportation Options: Private cars, buses, trains

In Chicago, you will find many beautifully created park areas and pathways. From magnificent skyline to astonishing urban architecture, everything adds to the charm of the city. Moreover, the city hosts a plethora of festivals and events. Some of the most prominent ones are Chicago Blues Festival, Glencoe Festival of Art, Chicago International Film Festival, Lollapalooza Music Festival, Windy City Ribfest, etc.

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Are you planning your next vacation with your loved ones? Check out the best tour packages of the USA from the major cities of India for a wonderful trip. USA Packages from Delhi , USA Packages from Mumbai , USA Packages from Bangalore , USA Packages from Chennai , USA Packages from Ahmedabad , USA Packages from Kolkata .

West Coast And East Coast In The USA

Talking about the tourist attractions in the USA, the country has so much to offer to the travelers that even a lifetime would not be enough to explore these places. Therefore, these USA vacation packages are divided into two sections, namely, USA east coast tours, and USA west coast tours.

USA West Coast Tours

The western coast of the USA is adorned by various attractions ranging from the sin city of Las Vegas, known for its exhilarating nightlife, to the sunny city of Los Angeles, known for its Hollywood industry. Other points of interest embedded in the west coast are San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, Napa Valley’s Vineyards, Death Valley (hottest place in the world), Yellowstone National Park(known for its active geysers), Alaska (known for adventure sports), Mount Olympus (tallest mountain of USA), Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains National Park and San Diego (known for its exquisite beaches). Hawaii Islands, known for their distinct landscape, and tropical setting, are also a popular destination off the west coast of the USA. If you wish to add these locations to your itinerary then your USA trip cost will be adjusted accordingly.

USA East Coast Tours

The east coast of USA is known for its posh lifestyle such as that of the most populous city of New York. Other important tourist places in USA include places like Miami (known for beaches and nightlife), Orlando (known for NASA Space Centre, and numerous theme parks), Washington D.C. (the capital city of USA known for the illustrious White House, and lively culture), Long Island, Acadia National Park, Mammoth Cave National Park (World’s largest cave system), Niagara Falls and more.

Best Time To Visit USA

Being such a vast country, different parts of the USA experience different climatic conditions, but to sum up the weather conditions, it would be apt to say that spring and autumn are the best seasons to visit the USA. Considering tour packages to America , which are often strategically designed to align with these optimal times, can significantly enhance your travel experience. April to May mark the best time to visit the USA after the harsh winter season, while late September to December is the best time to visit the USA for a pre-winter vacation. The reason being that the weather is pleasant, and more importantly, it is the time for festivities such as the New Year and Christmas.

Spring (March to May)

Spring is the best time of the year to visit the USA as the weather is pleasant and you can experience the country at its best during this season. Spring is also the peak season in the USA and some parts of the country also receive rainfall during this time of the year. The southern part of the country is extremely beautiful with all the greenery and blooms.

Summer (June to August)

Summer is the peak season for tourism in the USA. Most of the tourists visit the country during this season and all major attractions are open to the public during this time. The average temperature during this time ranges from 21 degree celsius to 40 degree celsius and it is also the best time to explore the beaches in the area.

Autumn (September to November)

The country looks beautiful with red and orange dead leaves on the street. Fall is regarded as the harvest season in the USA and the average temperature ranges from 17 degrees celsius to 29 degree celsius. You can explore a large part of the country during this time of the year.

Winter (October to February)

States like Florida in the USA tend to remain warm during the winter months. If you wish to experience snowfall in the country, this is the best time to visit the country during this season.

How To Reach?

In order to reach the USA from India, traveling by flight is the only feasible option. There are several cities in the US that have international airports to which you can board a flight to from various cities in India. Some of the cities that you can board a flight to from Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) in Delhi and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM) in Mumbai to US are Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Miami, Honolulu. Some of the important airports are O'Hare International Airport (ORD), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), San Francisco International Airport (SFO), and Dulles International Airport (IAD).

Hop on an excursion to the third-largest country in the world with our USA tour packages , now! And, enjoy everything from quaint little countryside beauties to classy urban marvels and jazzy nightlife, outstretched prairie to rugged peaks, arid desert to wet rain forests, and a volcanic landscape to elongated coastlines. With a bounty of offers to serve its visitors, here’s an exhilarating trip awaits you!

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USA Tour Package: Las Vegas, LA, San Francisco

₹ 160,000/- ₹ 175,824/-

Per Person on twin sharing

• Grand Canyon Rim Walk
• Hill station
• Universal Studios
• Golden Gate Bridge
• Sightseeing

Hotel included in package:

• Las Vegas (2D)
• Los Angeles (2D)
• San Francisco (3D)

Be it the vastness of the Pacific Northwest or the appeal of Appalachian Trail, the Uni....

Upto 3 Stars

Exotic USA Tour Package

₹ 250,000/- ₹ 274,725/-

• Niagara Falls
• Disney World
• Washington D.C.
• New York (2D)
• Washington DC (1D)
• Niagara Falls (2D)
• Chicago (1D)
• Orlando (5D)
• Bahamas (3D)

Book our 13 nights 14 days USA tour package to embark on an unforgetta....

The land of milk and honey: America awaits

₹ 267,000/- ₹ 290,217/-.

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• Chicago (3D)
• Houston (2D)
• Denver (2D)
• Rapid City (3D)

Unique USA Sightseeing Tour Package

₹ 169,000/- ₹ 185,714/-

• Orlando (8D)

Replete with snow-covered peaks, redwood forests, beautiful beaches, bluegrass, big ope....

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Go For a Romantic Excursion to the West Coast of USA

₹ 268,500/- ₹ 295,055/-.

• Honolulu (5D)
• Los Angeles (3D)
• Las Vegas (5D)

Remarkable USA Tour Package

₹ 320,000/- ₹ 351,648/-.

• New York (3D)
• Philadelphia (2D)
• Atlantic City (1D)
• Niagara Falls (1D)
• Boston (1D)
• San Francisco (5D)
• Fresno (1D)
• Las Vegas (3D)

The USA is one of the most desired tourist destinations across the globe. A country wit....

Explore Our Amazing Summer Special USA Honeymoon Package

₹ 150,000/- ₹ 164,835/-.

• Chicago (2D)

The United States of America is a dream destination for many. It is an ideal destinatio....

Mesmerizing USA Honeymoon Package

₹ 170,000/- ₹ 186,813/-.

• Washington DC (3D)
• San Francisco (1D)

The west coast of USA comprises of the states of Washington, California, and Oregon. Th....

Stunning West Coast Trip: Bewitching landscapes

₹ 112,000/- ₹ 121,739/-.

• Los Angeles (5D)

USA Cozy Honeymoon Package

• Casinos in Sun City Resort
• Los Angeles (1D)

USA west coast and Yellowstone park call you this vacation season. Come and spend your ....

A Long Honeymoon In USA

₹ 300,000/- ₹ 329,670/-.

• Charlotte (2D)
• Washington DC (2D)
• Buffalo (2D)
• San Francisco (2D)
• Dallas (2D)
• New York (5D)

Intimate USA Honeymoon Package

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Utopian U.S.A Summer Special Tour Package

₹ 142,999/- ₹ 157,142/-.

• Vancouver (2D)
• Alaska (7D)

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Ecstatic USA Tour Package

₹ 230,000/- ₹ 252,747/-.

• Orlando (7D)

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10 Days Tour Package To USA With Airfare

₹ 362,999/- ₹ 390,322/-.

• National Memorial

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The Ultimate USA Honeymoon Tour Package

₹ 154,999/- ₹ 170,329/-.

• Yellowstone National Park
• Gardiner (2D)
• West Yellowstone (3D)
• Teton Village (1D)

The United States of America is a country with many colors. Varying landscapes, amazing....

10 Days Summer Special Tour Package to Canada with Airfare

₹ 281,780/- ₹ 299,766/-.

• Island Tours
• Vancouver (5D)
• Jasper (2D)
• Kamloops (1D)

Let’s pack the bags and grab the boots to enjoy the most amazing international su....

Amazing USA Honeymoon Package

₹ 200,000/- ₹ 219,780/-.

Ultimate USA Tour Package

• Hot Springs
• Rapid City (1D)
• Gillette (1D)
• Phoenix (1D)

Embark on a trip to treasure for a lifetime with this 12 nights, 13 days USA to....

Utopian USA Honeymoon Package

• River Canyons
• Amusement Park

Delight in an amazing trip of togetherness after exchanging vows with this well-designe....

Alluring USA Tour Package From Ahmedabad

₹ 244,999/- ₹ 269,230/-.

• Magic Kingdom

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Unforgettable USA Honeymoon Package From India

₹ 227,000/- ₹ 249,450/-.

• Underwater World
• Whale Watching
• Honolulu (4D)
• Lahaina (4D)

USA is bestowed with the beauty of nature and is considered as one of the best destinat....

Marvelous USA Tour Package From Ahmedabad

₹ 243,000/- ₹ 261,290/-.

Aboard one of the most happening tours of your life with our 9 nights and 10 da....

Best Selling USA Tour Package From Kerala

₹ 235,000/- ₹ 255,435/-.

• Orlando (3D)
• New York (4D)

Top-Selling USA Package From India

₹ 177,000/- ₹ 194,505/-.

• Los Angeles (6D)

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The average cost of a tour to the US will depend upon the number of people travelling, the type of accommodation (luxury, budget, family), and the number of days you plan to spend at the destination. For 5 nights and 6 days in Hong Kong, you can end up shelling out INR 1,50,000 whereas if you are planning a long trip of around 13 nights and 14 days, you may spend INR 2,50,000.

How do I plan a trip to America?

The area covered by the USA is quite large with a plethora of destinations to explore. Most people decide to visit a particular area or two to three prominent cities. Therefore, the ideal way to plan a trip to the USA is by dividing the country into east and west coast destinations. A short trip to the national parks, 2 or 3 of the prominent cities (such as New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Buffalo, Los Angeles, and Washington DC), and other tourist destinations are perfect to visit with your family and friends. If you want to visit multiple cities, you can choose from Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Orlando, Niagara Falls, Miami Chicago, Buffalo, Rapid City, Houston, Denver, Vancouver, Honolulu, West Yellowstone, Tampa, Charlotte, Alaska, Gillette, Phoenix, and Dallas.

What are the best USA tour packages offered by TravelTriangle?

Below listed are some of the best USA tour packages offered by us:

Which are the best places for shopping in New York?

Some of the best shopping places in New York are:

• The Shops at Columbus Circle
• Manhattan Mall
• Westfield World Trade Center
• Staten Island Mall
• and Brookfield Place

Is medical necessary for a US tourist visa?

Medical tests are not required for acquiring a regular US tourist visa. It is only required for immigrant, and student visas.

What is the ideal duration for a trip to the USA?

The area covered by the USA is quite large with a plethora of destinations to explore. Most people decide to visit a particular area or two to three prominent cities. Therefore, the ideal duration for a trip to the USA in 13 days and 12 nights. An itinerary of 13 days plans for you a trip to the national parks, 2 or 3 of the prominent cities (such as New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Buffalo, Los Angeles, and Washington DC), and other tourist destinations.

For how many days is a US tourist visa valid?

A normal US tourist visa is valid for 90 days but a B-2 type visa is valid for 6 months, and a multiple entry visa can also be obtained which extends upto 10 years.

Which are the best nightclubs in Vegas?

Some of the best nightclubs in Vegas are:

• Frankie's Tiki Room
• Artisan Afterhours Las Vegas
• The Chandelier
• Atomic Liquors
• and The Phoenix Bar & Lounge

What is the best time to visit the USA?

Shoulder seasons, namely, Spring, and Autumn mark the best time to visit the USA. During these periods it is neither too cold nor too hot. Hence, sightseeing and outdoor activities become more enjoyable.

What are the best places to visit in New York?

New York is definitely the apple of everyone’s eye. The city is home to so many awe-gasping places that it is hard to visit them all. Therefore, listed below are some of the most amazing places to visit in New York.

• Statue of Liberty
• Central Park
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Broadway and the Theater District
• Empire State Building
• 9/11 Memorial and Museum
• Times Square

What is the best place to go shopping in Los Angeles?

There is a lot of options like:

• shopping hubs
• Beverly Hills
• Abbot Kinney
• L.A Fashion District and some others.

How to hire cabs and private vehicles for personal use?

It’s very easy to hire a cab. You can download the cab-hailing app or you can search for the rent a car service provider on Google.

Do we get the liberty to fly in a Helicopter included in the package?

You can easily find and hire a helicopter for a wonderful ride, but the cost is not included in the package amount.

What if we wake up late any day?

Time punctuality is very important because it will affect the tour and will delay the plans.

Would we have to travel separately or along with all the tour members?

You can travel either way. It all depends on you completely.

Can we customize the tours as per our needs?

Yes, it is possible, you just have to arrange a meeting with your agent and let him know about your needs and changes.

Can pregnant women travel easily to the USA?

We don’t recommend pregnant women to travel this long because of the medical conditions and complications.

What else can we do in the Grand Canyon?

Besides the bird’s eye view, you can do biking, hiking, Rim Walk, Rock Climbing, and much more.

What are the best places to visit in the USA?

The best places to visit in the USA are:

• the Grand Canyon
• San Francisco
• Washington D.C
• Los Angeles
• New Orleans
• and Seattle

How far is the USA from India?

8,448 miles is the approximate distance between India and the USA.

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Navy Pier is not a location in Chicago – it is more like a melting pot. Located on the shoreline of Lake Michigan stretching for 3,300ft into the blueness, the Navy Pier of Chicago is at present the top leisure destination in the Midwest. The vibrant pier, centred on the iconic Ferris wheel, encompasses fifty acres of garde...

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Shedd Aquarium In Chicago

Sharing the Museum Campus of Chicago with Field Museum and Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium is one of Chicago’s most visited attractions. Built in 1930, it was back then, the very first inland aquarium that also houses a permanent saltwater fish collection. The 5 million US gallons of water in the S hedd Aquarium of Chicago ...

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Cloud Gate In Chicago

The Cloud Gate is a stainless steel sculpture that was built by Sir Anish Kapoor, a British-Indian architect. It is located near the AT&T Plaza. The Cloud Gate Chicago IL United States is also famed as the “The Bean” due to its shape. T he cloud gate represents a liquid mercury drop and was actually inspired from a mercury d...

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Skydeck Chicago In Chicago

The Skydeck Chicago is an amazing location that you shouldn’t miss out in your lifetime. It is the highest located observatory in the west. It is loaded with glass balconies from where you can witness the entire city from 1,353 feet above. The view from Skydeck Chicago also has another astonishing experience. Traveler, and ...

Willis Tower In Chicago

The Willis Tower was previously known as the Sears Tower. The Willis Tower height or the Sears Tower height is around 442.1 metre or 1,450 foot. It a wondrous skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois. It is famed as the world’s tallest building. However, the Willis Tower, Chicago was actually 15 stories short. The tower was ...

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Buckingham Fountain In Chicago

Located at the center of the Grant Park, the Buckingham Fountain is considered as one of the largest fountains in the world. Built in 1927, the Buckingham Fountain is considered as the front gate or the main entrance of the city due to its location. The fountain was built in a rococo wedding cake style and had some imprints...

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Lincoln Park Zoo In Chicago

Considered as one of the oldest zoos in North America, the Lincoln Park Zoo is a part of the Associations of Zoos and Aquariums. The zoo was built in 1868 and consisted of only two pairs of swans which were gifted to the Lincoln Park Commission by the Central park commission in New York city. The zoo was later gifted by sev...

Millennium Park In Chicago

The Millennium Park is one of the top tourist places in Chicago and listed amongst the largest parks in the city sprawling over around 319 acres of land . It is even known as the front lawn of Chicago due to its location. Visitors from all around the world come here to view the lush green property and enjoy the events that ...

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Soldier Field In Chicago

The home of the Chicago Bears, Soldier Field is an American football stadium which was built during 1924. One of the oldest stadiums, Soldier Field is also one of the most visited places and has conducted several types of games and shows too. It is even considered as a National Historic Landmark and has been the host to the...

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USA holiday packages incorporate an elaborate tour itinerary that enables travelers to enjoy a planned and organized vacation. These itineraries include various facilities such as sightseeing tours, outdoor activities, accommodations, and transfers, which make a vacation, even more, better for a traveler. Another benefit of a USA itinerary is that it can also be customized according to the preference, and budget constraints of a traveler. Therefore, if you wish to add a particular activity in your travel itinerary then your package can be customized as per the requirements. Moreover, there are also a plethora of adventure activities that you can partake in to make your trip all the more alluring.

10 Things To Do In The USA

Each city of the USA will take you on a breathtaking journey filled with heart-warming food, alluring festivity, and amazing eccentricities. The USA is also home to various zoos, and museums which are also included in these packages for the interest of children. Apart from sightseeing, these USA travel packages, also include various activities such as club hopping in Vegas, and Miami, hiking in national parks, shopping in New York, and Los Angeles, theme park tours of Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, and SeaWorld, Kennedy Space Centre tour, and numerous water activities such as whale watching, kayaking, canoeing, rafting, and more.

1. Hiking in National Parks

The US is home to a plethora of national parks that are bestowed with natural beauty in abundance. Therefore, these parks are apt for a wonderful hiking expedition. Some of the most sought after places to go hiking in the US are Grand Canyon National Park, Glacier National Park, Acadia National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park.

2. Shopping in New York

New York is a hub for many activities and one of that is shopping. Some of the neighborhoods in New York city are ideal places for shopaholics to make your dream come true. Union Square, Williamsburg, Meatpacking District, NoLita, Madison Avenue, SoHo, Fifth Avenue, Greenwich Village, Lower East Side, etc. It is recommended that you do a little research and head on to selected places in order to go shopping as per your requirement.

3. Club Hopping in Las Vegas & Miami

Miami and Las Vegas both have many night clubs and party places. Therefore, if you are a night owl on a lookout for awesome places then Miami and Las Vegas should be your next stop. A trip to the US is almost incomplete without experiencing the nightlife of these two cities. It is best to take note of the best time to visit these places and the time of festivity and get going. Note that in some places, you will have to make bookings and reservations in advance.

4. Trip to Theme Parks

The US also has its fair share of theme parks across the country. One can opt to spend a day in any of these theme parks. They are based on different themes and culture, therefore, one can choose as per that. Some of the famous theme parks in the US include Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Park, Magic Kingdom Park, Universal Orlando Resort, Hersheypark, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, SeaWorld Orlando, Universal Studios Hollywood, Disney's Blizzard Beach Water Park, etc.

5. Whale Watching

In the US, one can also partake in whale watching in various cities. San Juan Islands, Maui, Bar Harbor, Cape Cod, Juneau, Newport Beach, Long Island, and Jacksonville are some of the places in the US from where one can indulge in whale watching. Whale watching is undoubtedly a soul pleasing experience that will leave you completely awe-struck.

6. White Water Rafting

One of the most adventurous things to do in the USA is to go for white water rafting. Grand Canyon in Arizona is a famous spot for white water rafting. The Colorado River is a popular rafting destination. People across the world come here to try this thrilling and adrenaline pumping activity. The river provides proper rapids and sharp turns for a perfect adventure. So if you are looking for some adventure on your US packages, make sure to try white water rafting in the Colorado River.

7. Try Overnight Caving

Another unique and exciting activity to do in the USA is to go for overnight caving in McMinnville. You will discover Cumberland Caverns along with many miles of underground passageways, remarkable rock formations, beautiful pools, and gorgeous waterfalls. Go on the caving excursion and see remarkable and unique things. These caves in McMinnville attracts people across the globe especially those looking for some adventure and also the history buffs.

8. Mountain Biking

Another most remarkable thing to do in America is to go mountain biking. One of the most famous biking trails is Tahoe Rim Trail which takes you through the breathtaking views of lakes, and has many steep drops. One the way you will see a large variety of flora and fauna as well. So while on a tour to the USA, make sure to try this thrilling activity.

9. Skydiving

Another adventurous and adrenaline pumping activity to try in America is skydiving. So, if you are ready for this extreme thrilling sport, go to Perrine Bridge which is known for many thrilling sports. The activity can be tried by the beginners as well, just make sure you are ready for it.

10. Try Ziplining

Ziplining is another famous outdoor sport in America. Visit Catskills Valley and try the highest zip lining in North America. It is around 650 foot long and gives you one of the most thrilling experiences. While ziplining see lush green mountains, and mesmerizing landscapes.

Places To Stay In The USA

One need not worry about accommodation when in the USA. Here is a list of few accommodations that you can consider to stay at on your vacation:

1. Red Canyon Cabins

Star Category: 4-star hotel

Price Per Night: INR 5,591 onwards

Location: 843 E Highway 89, Kanab, UT 84741, United States

Situated in Kanab, this lodge is set up in a beautiful location and offers the peace and tranquility that you are seeking on your vacation. The accommodation has a beautiful garden area along with additional facilities like complimentary wi-fi, a flat-screen TV and an attached washroom with a shower and a hairdryer. A seating and a separate dining area is also available for guests at the lodge.

2. Wingate by Wyndham Page Lake Powell

Star Category: 3-star hotel

Price Per Night: INR 6,168 onwards

Location: 671 Scenic View Rd, Page, AZ 86040, United States

Approximately 12 km away from Lake Powell, the hotel offers rooms with an air-conditioner and complimentary wi-fi. Additionally, guests at the accommodation can also make use of the indoor pool and front desk facility. Business travelers can also find a well-equipped business center and meeting rooms.

3. Country Inn & Suites by Radisson

Price Per Night: INR 5,795 onwards

Location: 880 Haul Road, Page, 86040, United States

Located in Page, this hotel offers proximity to almost all major attractions in the area. The accommodation provides all major amenities and facilities during your stay including a fitness center, private parking area, a bar and a shared lounge. All the units at the hotel are air-conditioned and equipped with all major amenities. Guests can also make use of a 24-hour front desk and complimentary wi-fi at the accommodation.

4. Lake Powell Resort

Star Category: 3-star resort

Price Per Night: INR 7,332 onwards

Location: 100 Lakeshore Drive, Page, AZ 86040, United States

Located at the Wahweap Marina, the resort arranges for boat tours and an outdoor pool where guests can relax and rejuvenate. On-site dining and dinner cruises as available at the property along with a refrigerator and tea and coffee making facilities. You can also head to the on-site gym at the resort and indulge in log workout sessions. Guests can also rent power boats to explore canyons.

5. Hyatt House Nashville at Vanderbilt

Price Per Night: INR 6,813 onwards

Location: 2100 Hayes Street, Nashville, 37203, United States

Featuring a restaurant, an outdoor pool and a fitness center, the hotel is a 3-star accommodation with a fitness center and a shared lounge area. The rooms are beautifully decorated and fitted with a wardrobe, flat-screen TV and a desk. When staying at the property, do not forget to enjoy a buffet breakfast at the hotel along with BBQ facilities available on-site.

Places To Enjoy Delectable Meals In USA

There are a lot of restaurants and cafes in the USA that travelers can dine at during their vacation. Some of which include:

1. Teatotaller – Somersworth, New Hampshire

Cuisines: American, Italian, Continental

Timings: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

TripAdvisor Rating: 3.5/5.0

Location: 69 High St, Somersworth, NH 03878, United States

The cafe is decorated with eclectic furniture and colorful walls and the creative food presented by the chefs make this cafe one of the most beautiful cafes in the area. Also a teahouse or bistro, this all rolled into one venue the drool worthy macarons and regular drag nights make this place a must-visit.

2. Southern Grind Coffee House – Orange Beach, Alabama

Cuisines: Continental, America, Coffee

Timings: 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM

TripAdvisor Rating: 4.5/5.0

Location: 4751 Main St Ste 116, Orange Beach, AL 36561-5865

This cafe with coastal style decor and beautiful decor also serves food which looks bright, vivacious and indulgent. The place is perfect for a big celebration and is located besides the sea that offers the best view. The place offers a cool and a quiet ambiance and the delicious food served adds to the delectable experience.

3. Moore Coffee Shop – Seattle, Washington

Cuisines: Quick Bites, Vegetarian Friendly

Timings: 6:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Location: 1930 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, United States

Loved far and wide for their eye-catching latte art, the creative foam art at the cafe included cute animals that you will find too sweet to drink. You can also enjoy turmeric latte and make for the extra insta vibes. The cafe is centrally located in the city and you can also enjoy the lively ambiance along with the delicious food.

4. Café Disco – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Timings: 12:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Location: 629 W Main St Suite 103, Oklahoma City, OK 73102, United States

This pastel-perfect place focuses on two things mainly macarons and cappuccinos. Here you will find 10 core macaron flavors, 2 seasonal flavors and a small focused coffee menu. The coffee served here is delicious and you can enjoy a wide variety of flavors and peaceful and calm ambiance at the cafe.

5. Presta Coffee Roasters -Tucson, Arizona

Cuisines: Continental, Asian, International

Timings: 08:00 AM to 4:00 PM

TripAdvisor Rating: 5.0/5.0

Location: 2502 N 1st Ave #100, Tucson, AZ 85719-2909

With simple design and industrial chic, the cafe never fails to offer delicious and lip-smacking dishes on your visit. Located on the avenues, the coffee store offers a welcoming and stylish ambiance.

USA Holidays - Food, Nightlife, and Local Transportation

These USA trip packages also provide an opportunity for the travelers to savor the culinary delights of the authentic American cuisine. The southern part of the USA is famous for its lip-smacking cuisine that comprises dishes such as pimento cheese, boiled or baked sweet potatoes, pit barbecue, fried catfish, succotash, chicken fried steak, and more. American breakfast is also popular around the world which includes some of the most mouth-watering dishes such as bacon, eggs, hash browns, pancakes, and more. Through specially curated tour packages by TravelTriangle, one can savor the best of American cuisine as one gets ample leisure time to explore different cafes and eateries.

Travelers also get an opportunity to be a part of the otherworldly nightlife of the USA which can be best witnessed in cities of Las Vegas and Miami. The booming nightclubs, flashy casinos, and dazzling beach clubs offer one of the best nightlife experiences in the whole world. These cities in the USA never sleep and are always ready to treat tourists and locals with an alluring nightlife experience. So whenever you create an executable USA tour plan a trip to these places get ready to dance your heart out and party till the brim of dawn.

Another benefit of booking these America tour packages is that they also include local as well as inter-state transfers which make traveling easier for the tourists. One can choose to travel via private cabs, or via buses (on SIC basis) as according to his/her requirements. The US is well-connected by an extensive high-speed railway network. Apart from this, local transport further includes taxis, buses, metros. However, traveling by privately owned car is more prevalent throughout the country. For an exact USA trip cost , take all the travel itineraries into consideration.

Safety Measures To Follow During USA Trip

If you are planning for a vacation to Paris anytime soon or during the pandemic, here are a few safety precautions that you must take during your travel:

• One must carry a COVID-19 negative certificate at all times
• Make all hotel bookings in advance and ensure that you have a copy of the same
• Ensure that you wear a mask at all time when traveling
• Maintain social distancing and avoid going to crowded places
• Keep a sanitizer handy at all times and ensure that the rooms are well-sanitized and hygienic.

Essential Tips For USA Tour

• Plan your vacation before checking for the weather conditions and the best time to visit.
• If booking a USA package, then thoroughly through the list of inclusions and exclusions.
• Check for the hotel reviews online before proceeding with the bookings.
• Always carry a mini backpack with essential things like a power bank, medicines, sanitizer, sunscreen, passport, visa etc.
• Tipping is considered an etiquette in the USA so make sure to tip at restaurants and shuttle/taxi drivers.
• Always keep emergency numbers of the place you are traveling to handy. For USA, 911 is the emergency helpline number.
• Do not smoke in places where smoking is not allowed.
• Make use of debit and credit cards more instead of cash.
• It is advisable to have health and travel insurance before visiting the USA.
• In general terms, a citizen of any foreign country who wants to visit the United States for the purpose of travel or recreation need to obtain a visa first, which can possibly be a nonimmigrant visa for a temporary duration of stay or an immigrant visa for staying permanently in the United State.
• For travelers, visitor visas are granted on a temporary basis.
• These nonimmigrant visas are usually for all those people who want to come to the United States temporarily for business- for which they need (visa category B-1), for tourism (visa category B-2), or for a combination of both purposes (B-1/B-2).
• You can apply for the VISA online. But for the later appointments, you will need to visit a VAC, and an Embassy or Consulate in that order.
• To get the documents for the biometric submitted, you can visit any of the VACs situated across the country. Following these procedures, there will be an appointment and then a visit to the US Embassy New Delhi, or at any US Consulate-General at Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, or Mumbai.
• You can check the status online.

Why Book USA Holiday Packages With Travel Triangle?

You are provided with so many diverse options for USA holiday trip from India that will allow you to choose any one of them and feast the voyage according to the plans. We have offered every single package according to the needs and demands of visitors based on the outcomes of formerly performed tours. Many of our former clients have requested to add features and made changes in the packages, so we made them more advanced and feasible Vacations in the US for the next term. Out of many other places, the USA is a place with a large area that cannot be covered with one tour so we have made a series of packages that will let you select the best one that suits you. The prices and the amount of the USA Travel Packages are fair so that you won’t feel any burden. The best that we can offer is already has been offered. Make your mind and select the best USA trip package for you and your family. Along with some other packages, we have also created some family packages as well. Family packages are desirable for the people who need places to travel to like Disney World, Sea World, Theme Parks, Universal Studios, Disney Resorts, and all the places that they can enjoy together. So, make your plans and book the finest USA Tour Package that is perfect for you. We have made it so much convenient for you to select and book by reading the details of the packages.

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Estimating Travel Costs

As we have mentioned many times throughout this website, there are many factors that contribute to the cost of your trip. Every traveler and every trip is different. If you're on a longer trip, some people will tell you it's not possible to predict how much your trip will cost. This simply isn't true. While there are many variables that will affect how much you spend, budgeting a trip is like budgeting anything else in life. You have to account for your own personal variations and preferences. Having a budget is crucial to making sure your trip doesn't financially spin out of control. That being said, it can be hard to exactly predict a specific cost, but it is possible to get fairly close. Naturally, the shorter the trip, the easier this is, but this process is catered towards people that are planning longer trips.

How much should a trip cost?

There are too many factors that affect a travel budget , so there is no simple way give a rough estimate of cost, especially if your trip is more than just a few days or weeks. What type of hotels are you staying in? How will you get from place to place? Transportation and accommodation are two of the most expensive areas that travelers spend money on, but there are many more.

Factors that affect a travel budget:

Where you choose to visit will have the biggest impact on your budget. Europe and the U.S. are expensive, while India and Cambodia are very inexpensive. Naturally, spending a longer period of time in cheaper locations will allow you to stretch your budget and travel longer. There are some surprisingly expensive destinations that you should be aware of. Brazil and Argentina are much more expensive than some of their nearby South American neighbors. West Africa is also quite expensive due to limited hotel and restaurant options (those that are available are overpriced and of low quality). Eastern Europe remains cheaper than most of Western Europe, but prices continue to rise and Eastern Europe is no longer the extreme budget destination it once was. This is particularly true for places like Greece and Croatia, that have long been discovered by travelers and vacationers alike. Asia is a mixed bag, with more developed countries costing more, and many developing countries (particularly in Southeast Asia) being much cheaper.

Your travel style can have a significant effect on your budget. If you're on a truly tight budget then you will likely have to sacrifice some level of comfort and luxury during your trip. Using public transportation is cheaper than hiring taxis or renting cars, but often not as efficient or relaxing. Staying in hostels or budget hotels is probably the most effective way to save money. You'll need to figure out your priorities, though. Are you willing to share a bathroom, or even sleep in a shared room in order to travel for a longer time period? But with these sacrifices come some rewards. In many places, locals take public transportation so you'll have a chance to interact with the people of the community and you'll get to experience what daily life is really like. Although hostels offer less privacy, they also give you the chance to meet other travelers, many of whom are also on long term trips. These travelers are an excellent source of information and travel tips. It's also fun to have the company, particularly if you've been traveling by yourself for a while.

The time of year you travel to some places can also make a difference in cost. Traveling in the low season or shoulder season can often land you significant discounts. These discounts are not nearly as large as the savings you will get from staying in hostels or budget hotels, however. Also, be aware that some travel destinations essentially close down during the low season. This is particularly true in areas with extreme weather fluctuations. If most of the area's hotels and restaurants are closed, then those few that remain open will likely raise their price significantly. Also, if you're traveling somewhere specifically to experience the outdoor activities, then make sure you go during the best season. Places like Nepal or Patagonia are obvious trekking destinations. There are very specific seasons when it is best to travel there, and you are better off if you arrange your trip around these times, but the prices are also highest during these periods.

How quickly you travel from place to place will significantly affect your budget as well. Transportation is expensive, especially if you fly often. Taking local overland transportation tends to be the cheapest way to go, but it's not as cheap as just staying put for awhile. Besides, taking a longer time to get to know a place is when you open yourself up to the most interesting experiences. Another benefit to traveling slowly is that it gives you time to simply walk around a place. If you're only in town for a few days, then you'll likely try to visit all the museums and attractions that you can within those few days. This will dramatically increase your daily budget and, in turn, raise the total cost of your trip. Take your time and soak up the local atmosphere if you're on a tight budget. You never know what you might discover, as you will have time to get off of the beaten path.

Tours and guides are another expensive part of traveling. Often you can see the same places on your own and learn from a guide book instead of a person. While the quality of the information you might learn from a book versus a person is debatable, there's no arguing that some tours can be extremely expensive. Many tours also include transportation and meals, so it may be worthwhile to consider this before making a final decision. If you do decide to take a tour, ask other travelers who they would recommend. Personal recommendations mean a lot more than any suggestion in a guide book or on the internet.

Children will add considerable expenses to your budget. You'll probably want to travel with a little more comfort and stability if you have kids. That's understandable. Don't let that stop you though! Your entire family will benefit from the experience.

Working while you travel is always an interesting debate. Many people believe that they can work and travel at the same time so that they can offset their expenses. Some believe they can get jobs in certain countries, and while this is possible, it is not always practical or guaranteed. Also, the jobs avaialbe may or may not pay the amount that is needed to travel. Be realistic about your expectations!

Some people also believe they can be digital nomads and make money while blogging, being an influencer, or a freelancer. Make sure that you have already established yourself as such before you just take off, as many travelers attempt to do these things and are then sadly dissapointed in the financial results during their trip.

One very reliable way to make money abroad is to teach English as a second language. Many countries have frequent opportunities for native English speakers to teach at schools or companies. For more information, read this great article about the best places to teach English abroad .

Research is Key

If you want to create a detailed breakdown of how much your trip will cost, you'll need to gather some resources. Keep in mind that it is impossible to foresee every expense. Remember, long term travel is about staying flexible. If you plan out your expenses to the very last detail, then you're probably going to have to plan your actual trip to this detail, and that is definitely not "staying flexible". Instead, allow for conservative estimates. It's better to budget too much money for something than not enough. Then, if things do go as planned, you'll have a little extra cash for when you get home, or even to spend when you extend your trip.

It is possible and advisable to create a general plan. The most basic steps include:

Determine an average daily total for each country you plan to visit. Consider accommodation, food, entertainment and transportation expenses.

Reality check that total. Approximate the cost for a hotel, food, entrance fees (museums, shows, etc), and local transportation. Consult guidebooks, other travelers, and booking websites to ensure that your budget is realistic for your travel style.

Think about how many places you plan to visit. How much will each section of the trip cost? Price out as many plane and long distance train tickets as you can. Transportation costs can be a significant part of your budget, and it is relatively easy find a good estimate for these costs. Be realistic though. If you don't think you'll take night buses, then budget enough for the more comfortable and efficient option. Don't assume you'll find that once in a lifetime deal on a plane ticket. If you're traveling in peak season, expect to pay peak season prices.

Add in costs for visas, vaccinations, and new gear. Don't forget to consider health insurance and other forms of insurance. These expenses can quickly add up. If you're planning to book an around the world plane ticket then make sure you budget for any unexpected changes. Each change will likely incur a fee.

Add at least 10% to your total, probably more. This is your budget. Reality check it one more time and make sure you've leaned on the side of conservative.

Finding realistic costs for all of these items can be tricky. Sometimes you can rely on other travelers, but sometimes not. Every traveler has their own style and priorities and just because somebody else spent one amount, doesn't mean that you'll spend the same. Prices poste online are generally a good bet, but remember that prices can change and vary by date, supply & demand, and other factors. Online prices are can often vary by the website, too. Some guidebooks may be reliable, others less so. Prices rise quickly and many guidebooks are at least a few years old. Hotels that are listed in guidebooks are also known to raise their prices quickly. The recommendation of Lonely Planet or other books can put a hotel or hostel in high demand, so don't expect to pay the price that is listed in the book. With that disclaimer aside, we've outlined a few resources below to help you plan your daily travel budget.

Budget Your Trip's travel cost search allows you to find out what other travelers are spending. You can search by city, country, and budget type (more options are coming soon!).

Guidebooks and online travel guides often give you an idea of how much specific hotels, hostels, or food will cost in a city. It's important to remember that printed guidebooks are often slightly outdated. Expect to spend a little more than a price that's quoted in a book. Online prices also vary by season and demand. If you go ahead and book something, then you can lock in your price, but you still need to be prepared to pay a little extra for tips, fees, and other random costs that might creep in.

Travel forums such as Lonely Planet's Thorntree or Nomadic Matt's travel forum offer a great resource to discuss expected expenses in a area. Find a forum that stays active and you can usually expect prompt, although varied, responses.

Hotel and airline booking websites have up-to-date pricing that is usually reliable. Make sure you are confirming a price during the season you plan to travel as seasonal price variations can be significant.

Travel websites such as Seat61.com offer a fair estimate of costs for intercity public transportation. You can often check public transportation costs on a city's government transportation website (such as the NYC subway website, or Paris' Metro website).

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How to Calculate Cost of Travel

Last Updated: September 27, 2023

This article was co-authored by Greg Guiteras . Greg Guiteras is the CEO of Lorraine Travel, LLC, one of the largest privately-owned travel management companies in Florida founded in 1948. With over 34 years of experience, Greg's specialties are in corporate travel management, sales and marketing, contract negotiations, strategic partnerships, and luxury hotel sales. Greg holds a BS in Marketing from Florida State University. Greg has also created WhataHotel!, a website offering exclusive perks on hotel bookings, and CabinMate, an app that matches single cruise travelers with potential cabin matches "in the same boat" to avoid traveling solo on a cruise. This article has been viewed 150,128 times.

Calculating your travel costs can help you plan and organize your trip, and though it may seem difficult or confusing, it’s actually pretty easy to do. Look into the cost of lodging, vehicle rentals, fuel costs, flight costs, and any other expenses you may incur. Gather all of your costs together and keep them organized so you can plan for expenses and calculate your costs. You can also use a formula to figure out your fuel costs if you’re driving to your destination.

Calculating Your Travel Budget

• Use a spreadsheet to organize costs, make plans, and keep a checklist of items.
• Write down any expenses that you make or plan to make in the document.

• You can also estimate your budget based on other round trip ticket prices. For example, if you’re in the US, you could calculate round trip tickets across the country at around $500.
• Look for roundtrip ticket deals that bundle your flights together.
• Compare rates of round trip flights online so you can find the most affordable option.

• For example, if a rental company charges $50 a day, and you need to rent a vehicle for 3 days, then you’ll need to budget at least $150 for rental costs.
• If you’re traveling far, choose the vehicle with the best mileage so you can save on fuel costs.

• Search online to determine the type of travel you’ll use.
• Find out the costs of using the transportation, whether it’s a rental fee or a ticket price, and estimate how much you’ll need to budget for it. For example, if you plan to take a ferry to visit a remote island at least 4 times, and the ticket prices are $5 per trip, then you can budget $20 for ferry tickets.
• If you’re unsure of how to arrange for transportation at your destination, contact a travel agency and ask them to assist you. You’ll have to pay them for their services, but they’ll be able to fully assist you!

• For instance, if you plan to stay at a hotel that costs $100 a night, and you plan to stay for 5 days, then you’ll need to budget $500 to stay there for the duration.
• Calculate your total lodging costs by adding together the total amounts of each place you plan to stay.
• You can find rental rates for many hotels on their website.

• Check to see if there are any restaurants that you plan to visit so you can adjust your food costs based on the prices of the restaurant.
• If you plan to eat on the airplane, contact the airline to find out the cost of meals.

Tip: A good rule of thumb is to figure about $20 of food costs per person for a full day of traveling.

• Try to think of any miscellaneous costs that you may have such as toll roads or baggage fees.

Budgeting Fuel Costs

• Put together all of the driving trips you plan to take to get a total traveling distance.

• For example, if you’re going to Kansas, you plan to drive a total of about 200 miles (320 km), and your rental car gets about 20 miles (32 km) per gallon of fuel, then you’ll need to purchase a total of about 10 gallons (38 L) of fuel in order to get around.

• For instance, if you need about 10 gallons (38 L) of fuel to travel around and the cost of fuel is about $3.00 per gallon, then you’ll need to spend about $30.00 on fuel.

Tip: If you’re traveling for business or you plan to be reimbursed for your expenses, keep your receipts so you can be reimbursed and calculate your mileage for tax purposes.

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Managing Tour Routing and Budgets

This chapter deals with some of the obstacles you’ll encounter when you’re routing a tour. It may seem a bit complicated at first, but with study and experience you’ll develop the skills you need to master this aspect of being a bandleader. To give you a head start, the last part of this chapter has a five-part step-by-step demonstration of how I put together an imaginary tour. This process illustrates all of the complications that can arise from routing and budgeting a tour – and gives you some of the most common solutions as well.

Tour routing and budgeting directly affect one another in a number of ways. You need to book a lot of gigs to make it worthwhile for you to go on the road. However, traveling from one gig to another costs a lot of money. So, once you decide to book a tour, you need to make sure that you book enough gigs to cover your travel expenses. You’ll want to avoid excessively difficult travel itineraries (because they can exhaust you and your band members and can affect your presentation), but at the same time you need to minimize your days off (because they can weigh down the profitability of your tour). Balancing the routing and budgeting aspects of a tour often seems like a juggling act. Once you have begun the booking process, you’ll find that your tour’s itinerary will take on a life of its own. Establishing total control over the routing process is impossible because too many touring elements are beyond your control.

Troubleshooting Touring Conflicts

Complications generally arise when you start arranging your transportation for your tour-in-progress. This happens because this is the first point where you see how your transportation costs affect your tour’s budget. When you have a reasonable idea of where you’re going to be and when you’re going to be there, you should begin to check into your transportation routing and expenses. I usually find that I am ready to do this approximately two-thirds of the way through the booking process. Sometimes you find that you just “can’t get there from here” or at least can’t get there in time. Sold-out flights, unworkable travel connections, high transportation costs, among other unpredictable factors, will add to your routing problems.

Routing problems occur on every tour. These problems may be caused by:

• disparities among commitment dates of various venues in your tour;

• a need to schedule unexpected last-minute gigs;

• conflicts between travel times and performance times, which are often not known until the tour schedule is relatively complete;

• excessive distances between gigs, which can raise transportation costs;

• too many open dates;

• the fact that other bands are often competing for the same dates, which means that certain venues may wait until the last minute before they commit to a gig.

You can solve routing problems in a number of ways. Which solution you choose will depend upon the individual circumstances of a gig, and perhaps the relationship that you have with your client. For instance, you can:

• change the date of a gig;

• fill in holes in your itinerary by asking your clients for recommendations and then scheduling additional gigs;

• consider alternative forms of transportation, which may have preferable schedules and fares, by contacting a travel agent    or by searching on the Internet;

• negotiate with clients so that they agree to pay for the band’s accommodations for extra days off;

• lower band members’ salaries slightly for a gig or two to bring the budget in line;

• solidify weak gigs that have yet to commit;

• take alternative gigs for a date that may have been canceled.

As you’re finessing the routing of your tour, you may find that you need to call back a few gigs that have confirmed to see if they have the flexibility to move dates around. Plan ahead for the fact that this may happen. When you first contact a venue and set a date, ask your client if the venue has one or two possible alternative dates. Don’t be afraid to ask about changing a date. Experienced clients understand routing problems and will accommodate your request if they can. And besides, you never know, sometimes changing a date at your request also solves a routing problem that the client is having. Clients deal with routing problems on their end as well, and they are often juggling dates. On occasion, a client may even call you to ask if you can change a date. Do your best to help your client out if you can. Cooperation will help you establish a positive reputation in the business and a solid working relationship with the client. When you’re considering swapping dates, keep in mind that gigs with signed contracts can’t be changed.

Some venues are locked into dates that can’t be changed. This is frequently the case with festivals. However, if the festival is a multiday event, the client may be able to juggle the day of your particular concert. Arts presenters, most nonprofits, and concert series that book a year in advance, will not be able to change their dates. Don’t bother to ask. Clubs, hotels, and small concert halls have the most flexibility. If you have a signed contract and the venue has started to advertise your appearance or if a festival or school concert hall has no other available dates and/or booking conflicts are too formidable, you most likely won’t be able to change the date. However, it is always worth a quick call to find out about the possibility of changing a date.

Nothing is more stressful than looking at your tour calendar and seeing too many open stretches of nonworking days in your itinerary. Open dates increase your expenses because you and your band members are forced either to fly home and back again in the middle of your tour or stay out on the road and pay hotels for days on end with no income. If you have no alternative gigs lined up for the dates that are not yet filled, do more venue research. Call your clients for the dates you’ve already booked and ask them to recommend other venues or new leads. Another option is to get in touch with local musicians or radio station disc jockeys in the area for new leads.

It is standard practice, when you’re in the preliminary process of booking a tour, to allocate 30 percent of your tour income toward accommodation and transportation expenses. However, once you start filling in your expense column with the actual accommodation and transportation costs, that allocation can quickly evaporate. In order to avoid this stressful scenario, assume that you are going to stay out on the road through any open dates and estimate $100 per person, per day, for hotels for each open date. Add these expenses to your budget, and then as other gigs confirm (and perhaps also agree to pay for your hotel and travel costs), you can adjust your budget accordingly.

If either you or your travel agent doesn’t have E-mail, print out your itinerary and fax it to your travel agent so the two of you can discuss where you’re going and how you plan to get there. Your agent may have solutions you have not considered. Alternatively, you can save your travel agent a lot of time and yourself a lot of worry about travel schedules and expenses by going on the Internet to do your own research. Almost every airline, railroad company, and car-rental service has a Web site. By checking a few sites you can get reasonable estimates of plane and train schedules and expenses for almost any part of the world. Having this information will make discussions with your travel agent much more efficient. Print out the plane and train schedules you think would work for the segments of the tour you have booked to date and fax them to your travel agent. He or she may be able to find lower prices and special offers that aren’t posted on the Internet.

Expect to have some open dates in your itinerary and plan ahead for them. Negotiate an extra day’s paid hotel, either before or after the gig date, with as many venues as you can. Assure the client that if another date confirms for the open date, you won’t need the extra day’s hotel. If you forget to ask for extra hotel days during negotiations, you’ll have to call your client back to see if he or she is willing and able to help. These kinds of situations may be awkward, but you never know until you ask.

After you’ve made all of the arrangements that you can to save money with your travel and accommodations, if your tour still looks as if it’s going to have a negative balance, try shaving a few dollars from your bandleader’s salary. Check to make sure you haven’t made a mistaken entry into your budget columns. As a last resort, see if taking $25 to $50 per person off a few gigs brings the tour back into the black. If other gigs commit later, you can readjust your salary entries.

Once you’ve completed your initial assessment of your routing consideration, you’ll have to go over your itinerary and assess the viability of each uncommitted gig. Take the weakest gigs off the calendar and budget, and see what the routing and expense picture looks like then. You may be surprised to suddenly see alternative routings you hadn’t previously considered. If this is the case and if you have some flexibility to make routing changes, you’ll have to call some of your committed gigs back to see if they can change their dates for you.

If you’re having trouble getting a confirmation from a client, tell him or her that you’re trying to keep your tour expenses down and that you need an answer by a certain date, or the cost of purchasing tickets for the tour will increase and you might not be able to afford to play the venue. I’ve found that this approach sometimes helps to gently prod my client into making a firm decision. The downside of this strategy is that the contact may say that he or she can’t confirm at that time, and suggest that you book an alternative gig if you can. This can leave you in a position from which you have little leverage to make a counterproposal. In both types of situations the client’s response is usually a good gauge of how solid his or her commitment to you is.

Occasionally you’ll encounter a client who just hates to say no and will keep you hanging. Oftentimes this is an indication that the client has another band in mind for that date and he or she simply hasn’t yet made a decision. The closer you get to the date of the gig the less likely this is to happen – because if your client hasn’t yet made arrangements for another group, he or she will be more anxious to fill the date and will be more willing to commit to you. If you find yourself in this kind of situation, you will have to make a judgment call as to how serious your client is, and how you want to proceed. Your decision may be based on whether or not you have an alternative gig. Ask the client what the odds are that the gig will be confirmed. If you get a positive response and you don’t have an alternative, hold the date. If you don’t get a positive response and you have a solid alternative gig (maybe for a smaller fee), take that one. It’s better to have a definite gig than to hold a date open for an engagement that’s looking shaky or will never happen. If you don’t get a positive response and you have no alternative gig, take the date off the calendar and leave it open. If they call, they call. If they don’t, you won’t have made any decisions based on the gig committing.

Creating Your Tour Calendars

Computer calendars are indispensable for routing tours, checking on open days, logging venue info such as fees, keeping track of event schedules, filing contact information, and readjusting tour dates. Calendars can also be used to note call-back dates, client call-back dates, and dates you expect mailings to be sent or arrive. Calendars are crucial when creating tour budgets and itineraries. When talking to a prospective client, have the calendar program up and running; this way you won’t be hesitant about your tour itinerary and routing.

Keep visual track of a tour’s constantly changing status by highlighting calendar dates using different colors or type, depending on the status of the gig. Enter dates that are definite in red. Enter the dates that you have contacted but are waiting to hear from in blue with a question mark. Dates that are yet to be contacted should be entered in black with a question mark. As soon as the status of a date changes, adjust the calendar and update the budget.

Try to allow no more than one six-hour driving day per week, unless it’s an off day, or after the trip. Three- to four-hour drives per day are reasonable, and not too exhausting. But sometimes you’ll have no choice but to accept some hard travel days.

Once, in the middle of an extensive U.S. tour, I accepted two days of concerts in two different Polish cities. The client made an offer I couldn’t refuse because we had four days open in that part of the tour. We finished a gig in Columbus, Ohio, drove to the airport, flew to Philadelphia, connected with a flight to Warsaw (with a change of planes in Munich), and then drove for three hours from Warsaw to the first gig. The total travel time was eighteen hours. We arrived at the first venue about three hours ahead of the performance time, which meant choosing between eating or catching a nap. I opted for the latter. Upon awakening, I hurriedly showered, shaved, and dressed, getting to the gig just in time to play. I was so tired I could barely lift my hands to the piano, but we made a good presentation anyway. Sometimes, when exhausted by hard traveling, a presentation is all you can do, but if your band has good musical rapport, that aspect alone can carry off a successful performance.

That night we got a decent night’s sleep, drove for three hours back to Warsaw, took a two-hour-long train ride to Krakow, and got to the next location with just enough time to eat and rest a little before the gig. The next day we took a train back to Warsaw, caught a plane to Louisville, Kentucky (by way of Munich and New York), and finished the last two weeks of our U.S. tour. Even though I had arranged a day off for the day after our return to the United States and had managed to book gigs for that next week that only required one to two hours of driving, it still took days for us to recover from that trip.

At the same time that you are booking your tour and drafting your tour calendar, you should also be developing your tour budget. Tour budgets help you to judge the financial status of your tour. For each tour you book, you’ll have to create a separate tour budget. Oftentimes you’ll need to create one or two alternative budgets to test out different ways a tour might look if you add or subtract gigs. Surprisingly, sometimes you will find that it is more profitable not take a certain gig because the salaries, transportation, and housing costs involved with that gig lower your tour’s net income.

When I first started booking my tours, I created my tour budgets using a computer spreadsheet program with linked totals and subtotals that automatically changed as I updated the entries. A spreadsheet is only as good as the person creating it. Incorrect entries and cell links can be entered into any accounting program, no matter how sophisticated it is. It took me quite a few tours to hone my computer skills so that these spreadsheets were completely accurate. One wrong number or entry title can be disastrous, so check, double-check, and triple-check your data.

I recommend the inexpensive software program Quicken Basic by Intuit. You can find out more about this program at http://www.intuit.com. Although primarily used for home accounting, Quicken Basic has a checkbook feature that can be easily customized for use with tour budgets. I prefer this program rather than a spreadsheet program because budget entries can be more detailed and calculations are done automatically. Detailed entry titles keep track of various income sources and expenditures. Quicken Basic’s handy report feature also allows you to create an accurate picture of your tour’s financial status. This is helpful for checking the profitability of a tour at any point during the booking process.

Both expenses and income will come your way unexpectedly during every tour, so you’ll need to bring an accounting program with you on the road to update your budget. You can then adjust those entries in your Quicken Basic program when you return. I don’t carry a laptop with me when I’m on tour. Instead I use a digital diary with a spreadsheet program. Although a budget spreadsheet is time-consuming to create, it’s well worth the effort and it’s a good way to double-check your figures and entries.

Whether you use a spreadsheet at home and/or on the road, you can save time by creating a generic budget spreadsheet that has cell links for the income, salaries, and tour expenses and that tallies the totals for each of these categories automatically. This automatic-tally function is especially helpful, because when you add or change an entry, the program changes all of the corresponding figures. (See pages 161, 163, 165, 168, and 172 for examples of a sample tour budget spreadsheet.)

To keep track of how much you are over or under your budget, set up your spreadsheet so that it creates totals for each category as well as a subtotal for the tour balance after the salaries and expenses have been deducted. To get a long-term picture of how your band is doing, you can, at the end of each year, create another spreadsheet to analyze the band’s average daily income and expenses, the average income per type of venue, and your personal and band average yearly income.

This is the information you need to enter into your tour budget spreadsheet:

Dates and City Locations of Gigs:  When starting a new budget, key in your first and last dates of a tour, and all the other dates between – regardless of whether they are booked or not. If the tour becomes longer or shorter than originally estimated, it’s easy to adjust your spreadsheet later.

Income from Each Gig:  Enter these figures as each gig confirms. If a venue is paying your hotel and/or airfares as part of your total fee, enter the figure as income on the appropriate day and then enter a zero in the appropriate cell in the expenses column. For example, if you’re getting paid $3,000 for a two-day gig and the venue is paying your hotels and transportation, you’ll enter $3,000 in the income column and zeros in the hotel expense column in the cells that correspond with those two days and zeros in the dates of your round-trip airfares.

Grants:  Enter any income that the band will receive from support grants in the income column.

Individual Salaries:  Enter these figures as soon as each gig confirms. Pay particular attention to your pay schedule to ensure that each person is being paid the correct amount for each type of service (concert, clinic, rehearsal, radio broadcast, etc.). If you want to see how a tour looks if all the gigs you’ve contacted confirm, make a tentative budget by adding in the income and salaries of the unconfirmed gigs. These can be updated as new information comes in.

Total Income : This figure is the total amount of the tour income, plus grants.

Individual Salaries:  This figure is the total of each individual’s salary for that tour.

Total Salaries:  This figure is the total of all of the individuals’ salaries. This is the figure that is deducted from the total-income figure to get the travel margin.

Agents’ Fees:  To make sure you haven’t neglected to enter and deduct these fees from your budget, enter the agent’s name and fee as well as the date of each gig for which the fee is owed in the expense column. Add a final cell for total agents’ fees underneath that section of your expenses.

Advance Deposits:  As mentioned above, the full amount of the fee for each gig should be entered in the income column. However, if you accept an advance deposit, you will need to develop a system for notating that a portion of the income for a gig has already been received. This system should be very clear, otherwise, you may forget about the deposit and, while on tour, expect to receive the full fee as it is listed in the income column. One way to notate the receipt of an advance deposit is to deduct the advance deposit from your total income. This second total will reflect the total amount of income that you will receive when you are on the road. You can call this second total something like “road income” to distinguish it from total income. You may also want to highlight the fee for the gig (which will be in the expense column under the appropriate date) in bold – so that you have a visual reminder that this entry involved an advance deposit. Personally, I find the extra level of bookkeeping involved with advance deposits cumbersome and so I make a point of not accepting them.

Travel Margin:  This category is optional. This is the figure you get when you subtract the total salaries, and agents’ fees (if applicable) from the total income. This figure lets you know how much of a balance is available for transportation and hotel expenses. If your tour is in good financial shape, this figure will be between 20 and 30 percent of your total income.

Airfares:  These figures need to be entered in their own column within the expenses portion of your budget. When the band is traveling together, use city and state abbreviations to notate all flights. This system also works well when personnel that live in differing cities fly to and from the first and last gigs of a tour by themselves. To keep track of how your expenses are going, use any of the many Internet airfare services to get estimates on flight costs. Microsoft’s Expedia Travel Service at http://expedia.msn.com/ daily/home/default.hts and Preview Travel at http://www.previewtravel.com allow you to get figures for open-jaw tickets. Using these estimates eliminates the need to bother a busy travel agent for tickets you may or may not buy. Actual costs can be reentered at the time the tickets are purchased. Don’t forget – as with all of the expense subcategories – to add a total airfares cell underneath the airfares category.

Baggage Fees:  These figures should include the charges for the bass and drums as well as oversize or overweight luggage. Add these costs on the line after each airfare listing. These figures vary unpredictably, and cannot be determined in advance. Some airlines will charge you baggage fees and some will not. It’s always safer to estimate unknown expenses on the high end and enter the inflated fees in your tour budget. Then, while you’re on tour, you can change the figure on your personal organizer and, once you get home, you can reenter the correct figures into your computer spreadsheet program. Once you’ve done a few tours, you’ll have a pretty good idea of what your average baggage fees will be.

Van Rentals:  Enter the to and from dates as well as the abbreviations for the areas where you’ll be driving. You can get estimates from the Internet or by calling a rental-car agency’s 1-800 number.

Gas and Tolls:  Enter these costs below your van-rental costs column. Map software programs such as Route 66, Delorme, or AAA, which are available on CD-ROM and on the Maps On Us Web site at http://www.mapsonus.com, can give you reasonable estimates as to how much gas you might use on a driving tour. These resources can be especially handy to check if you’re within your mileage limit allowed by the car-rental agency and how much it could cost you if you go over it.

Trains:  These expenses, for the most part, will only occur in Europe. (For more information about European train schedules and Eurailpasses, see pages 208&endash;213.)

Ferries:  Call the ferry company to get an estimate of its fees.

Taxis:  There may be some situations (as in foreign countries) where the venue will supply most of your local, in-town transportation. In these cases, you’ll only need to use taxis for limited excursions – like getting from the airport to the hotel. Since these expenses are relatively limited, you can usually ballpark these estimates yourself. However, if the band will need to take a longish taxi ride from the airport to the gig, you might ask your gig contact to give you an estimate as to how much the ride might cost.

Transportation Total:  This figure is the total of airfares, baggage fees, and all other forms of tour transportation.

Hotels:  Add every date where you think you’ll have to pay for your own hotels. Use your collection of hotel rate books, check on the Internet, or call any of the hotel chain 1-800 numbers to estimate your hotel expenses. If you plan on staying in a hotel that is not part of a chain, call your client for the hotel info and then call the hotel to check on its cost. Be sure to include any room taxes in the figure.

Total Hotels:  This figure is the sum total of all of the individual hotel expenses. This will change as you work to lower this expense.

Miscellaneous Expenses:  You never know what expenses might arise during a tour. It is a good idea to plan for some unexpected expenses. For example, you might need to rent a drum set or bass amp or fix a dent in a rental van.

Tips:  These costs will include airport and train station baggage handlers and hotel bellhops. This category is optional and should appear after the miscellaneous expenses category on your spreadsheet.

Total Travel Expenses:  The figure is the sum of all your travel and hotel expenses.

Tour Balance:  This is the most important figure in a budget. It tells you whether your tour budget is in the red or in the black. If it is in the red, you’re going to have to go back over your figures to see where you can shave any tour expenses. For instance, as previously mentioned, you may find that you have to reduce your own salary, which may mean that you will make less than the other members in your band. As a last resort, you may find that you need to reduce the other band members’ salaries as well in order to bring the budget back into the black. Alternatively, if you’re in the black by a moderate amount, you’ll be able to take a leader’s fee. If this is the case, don’t forget that you have other expenses, such as those incurred running your office and booking your band (telephone bills, computer software purchases, press kits, etc.) that you’ll hope to defray somewhat from a tour that runs into the black.

March West Coast Tour/Budget #5  

While booking a tour, you are probably going to make at least three tentative budgets – and maybe more if you have to refigure your tour because of cost overruns. If you know that you’re going to have to draft multiple budgets, when you start to enter your budget information, enter the hard or known figures first. For instance, the amounts for income and salaries generally don’t change, unless you need to lower the salaries on some gigs to bring your tour balance into the black. Use this partially drafted tour budget as the starting point for your various tentative budgets. Then, as time progresses, the softer, estimated expenses that you are experimenting with in these tentative budgets, will become harder or actual and you can make the necessary adjustments to your master budget. If a venue agrees to pay for some of your travel or hotel expenses, list those figures both in their proper expense categories as well as in the income category (next to the respective gig). Enter actual airfares as soon as you have the information. It’s the only way to keep track of a tour’s financial status.

Until you have your pay schedule memorized, keep it handy while entering your salary amounts into the tour budget. Pay attention to those days when you’re doing clinics and performances, because when done on the same day the rate is generally slightly less than if the two events were spread out over two days. With a quartet, an extra $50 per musician mistakenly overpaid could cost you $200. Occasionally, when you’re negotiating a college engagement, you may have to throw in a solo clinic to clinch a deal. It is up to you whether you want to pay yourself for these. You can always add the fees to the spreadsheet and, if a tour looks like it’s going into the red, knock a couple of them off to bring a tour’s balance into the black.

Figuring salaries for college residencies of two days or more is more complicated. The band could be working anywhere from two to eight hours a day, as in the case where you’re adjudicating a big-band festival. You’ll have to decide if you are going to pay your musicians for rehearsals with a college band. These situations will be handled on a case-by-case basis, depending on the status of the budget.

For gigs where you’ve negotiated a guarantee and a percentage of the admission fees, enter only the guarantee (in the income column) and the full salaries (in each individual band member’s income column). If you make some money on the percentage, you can add it into your portable spreadsheet later and watch your tour balance increase. However, you don’t want to assume that you’re going to make money and then be caught shortchanged if the gig doesn’t go as well as you had hoped it would.

Keep track of your days off by including each day off in your date and venue column. These should be visual reminders for you that you’ll be incurring accommodation expenses that won’t be paid for by a venue or be deflected by income from a gig. Eliminate them as the days fill in with confirmed gigs. Don’t forget to enter your days off into the hotel expense column, as well. Make separate checklists for the dates and destinations of all the flights to be booked, hotels to be reserved, and vans to be rented, including the driving days per rental segment and the drive time for each trip. Pay attention to those gigs that do and don’t pay for hotels, for gig days as well as for days off. Forgetting three of those days could make as much as a $1,000 difference in the tour balance. Hotels and airport car-rental agencies will add a tax and an airport surcharge to your bill. Ask about the additional charges before entering your transportation figures into the budget spreadsheet. You’d be surprised at how much they can add up at the end of a tour.

You’ll also want to keep tabs on some of the expenses that can vary between the time that you make your tour budget and the time that you actually go on tour. Unless you’ve reserved them in advance, airfares and van-rental rates can vary between the time of your original estimates and the purchase of the tickets or rentals. Hotel rates usually stay the same. The most variable expenses will be gas and other travel expenses – for instance, the extra charges for the bass case and drum set as well as oversize or overweight luggage – and miscellaneous expenses. You won’t have the actual costs for these miscellaneous expenses until you’re on the road. Enter those figures as you go along.

Even though you may have solidified, to the best of your ability, all of the details of a particular tour, once you’re on the road things rarely follow a planned itinerary or budget exactly. For the most part, trouble can be avoided by foreseeing potential problems before they occur. However, no matter how experienced you are, there are always variations in transportation, accommodations, and budgeting.

Don’t be fooled by a tour balance figure that suggests that you’re going to come home with $1,500 more than the other guys. All tour budgets, even the final one that you leave for the road with, are fantasies until the tour is over. Everything costs more than you think it will because stuff happens.

I learned this lesson the hard way. I had a tour balance of $1,500 and was looking forward to having the extra bread to offset my phone bills. We were on a tour of Europe and were doing a week in Italy (starting in Bologna), then on to Cologne, Germany, and London, England. To avoid taking the train around Europe with the damned bass case, our Italian agent sent it from Bologna to our hotel in Rome, the location of our last gig in Italy. Because our rooms were under the name of the club (it was paying for them), the hotel didn’t know the names of the band members and when the bass case arrived the hotel refused responsibility for it and had it sent back to Bologna.

We arrived at the hotel and the case wasn’t there. Also, the person who had refused to accept it was off for a couple of days. We had no idea what had happened to it. Even a trip to the train station gave us no information of its whereabouts. When it came time for us to leave for Cologne, our bassist couldn’t fly without his bass case. So we had to send our bassist, with his bass, by a brutal, twenty-hour train ride (thankfully we had a day off between gigs) in coach class (because it was too late to get any first-class seating), while the drummer and I flew to Cologne with his suitcase.

The agent went back to Bologna to find out what had happened to the case. While we were in Cologne, the agent called to say he found the case and was going to ship it to us by airfreight. However, the airline couldn’t guarantee that the case would get to Cologne in time for our departure to London. Because I was scheduled to do a solo clinic, I sent the bass player down to the airline ticket office and he managed to actually buy a seat on our flight to put his (unprotected) bass in the cabin. This is unheard of these days. Most airlines will not allow a bass in the cabin, but the flight was not full and they probably just wanted to fill another seat. We lucked out. Then I called the agent again. This time the agent told me that, for security reasons, the airline wouldn’t allow the case to go in baggage without someone traveling with it. The upshot of all this was that we had to fly the agent and bass case from Bologna to London.

After paying for shipping the case from Bologna to Rome and back, the bassist’s train ticket from Rome to Cologne, the extra ticket for the bass on the plane from Cologne, the agent’s plane ticket from Bologna to London, and the shipping charge for the case, an airport pickup fee in London for the agent and the case, and the agent’s hotel room in London, that $1,500 disappeared!

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Taylor Swift Is Not Attending the 2024 Met Gala to Focus on European Tour Dates

Swift kicks off her Europe tour in Paris on May 9

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Taylor Swift is skipping the 2024 Met Gala , PEOPLE can confirm.

Despite reports that she would be attending , the singer, who just dropped her Tortured Poets Department album on April 19, is sitting out fashion's biggest night. Instead, she'll be focusing on rehearsals and tour prep ahead of her Eras Tour dates picking back up on May 9 in Paris before traveling all over Europe during the spring and summer.

The Met Gala, which always takes place on the first Monday in May, will be held on May 6, which would have been a tight squeeze ahead of the tour for Swift, 34.

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TMZ previously reported that Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, would not be attending the Met Gala this year.

Swift has already attended the prestigious night six times (her most recent appearance was in 2016) while Kelce has yet to make his debut at the prestigious event.

The Grammy winner has had a huge couple of weeks, following the release of The Tortured Poets Department as she prepares to head back out on tour. She has taken over the Billboard chart (again!), has seen her album rack up 1 billion Spotify streams in a week and emotionally shared glowing reviews for her work .

No big deal, right?

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While there’s going to be a blank space with Swift absent, the Met Gala is sure to bring out all the heavy hitters in fashion. 

This year’s theme is centered on the “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibit, which will feature approximately 250 items — including 15 significant pieces such as an 1877 Charles Frederick Worth silk satin ball gown — that span over 400 years of history. “It is very much an ode to nature and the emotional poetics of fashion,” said Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute. 

Expectedly, the dress code is themed “The Garden of Time” and is inspired by J.G. Ballard’s 1962 short story of the same name. The story follows a count and countess living “in their utopia of leisure, art, and beauty,” as noted by Vogue , who predicts that stars will show up in ensembles paying homage to florals, music and time.  

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Zendaya , Jennifer Lopez , Chris Hemsworth and Bad Bunny will lead the pack as the four co-chairs of the night. Despite the Met Gala being a few weeks away, some of them have yet to finalize their looks (who can blame them, it’s a lot of pressure). 

The Challengers actress, an already five-time attendee (her insane Cinderella transformations on the famous steps is simply unforgettable) told Vanity Fair recently that she still doesn’t “really know” what she’s wearing, but she has “ideas.” 

Meanwhile, the This is Me…Now singer is still ruminating over a few potentials. “I have a few different sketches. I’m still deciding,” Lopez told Vogue this week. “I’m also one of those people who chooses at the last minute. Like, I like choices, and then I go, ‘Okay, this is how I feel today,’ and then we try to kinda create some type of amazing look — ‘cause that is the night for looks!”

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Billie Eilish tour 2024: How much are Billie Eilish tickets? Here’s how to score the best seats

Billie Eilish is getting ready to hit the road on her biggest tour yet .

Just a few months after winning her ninth Grammy Award for the hit song “What Was I Made For?” from the “Barbie” movie, Eilish is set to promote new music. The U.S. leg of the “Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour” will kick off on Sept. 29 in Quebec and it will end on Dec. 17 in Inglewood, Calif.

As part of her tour alongside brother and producer FINNEAS, Eilish will make one stop in New Jersey at the Prudential Center in Newark on Oct. 9 and then the tour will have three stops at Madison Square Garden in New York City from Oct. 16-18 .

This tour is in support of the Grammy winner’s third album “ Hit Me Hard and Soft ” which releases on May 17.

Here’s how to see Eilish perform songs from her upcoming album and previous hits live and the expected ticket prices.

How much are Billie Eilish tickets for the ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’ tour?

According to the Heritage Bank Center site , tickets are grouped into eight different tiers, ranging in price from $59.50 to $499.50 . Here is a look at the prices.

To get tickets at retail prices, rather than jacked-up reseller prices, you’ll want to take advantage of the artist presale while it is going on at Ticketmaster .

How to get Billie Eilish tickets

Fans will be able to purchase tickets to Billie Eilish’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour” during presales and a general sale on Ticketmaster between April 29 through May 3, 2024.

In the U.S. presales start on Tuesday, April 30 with the Artist Presale from 12 p.m. EDT to May 3 at 11 a.m . EDT .

The American Express Early Access Presale and Preferred Access seating sale with also begin on April 30 at 12 p.m. EDT and end on May 3 at 11 a.m. EDT. You can find out how the AMEX presale and preferred seating sale work here .

Those who can’t access the presales will have an opportunity to purchase tickets during the general sale on Friday, May 3 at 12 p.m .

These tickets are sure to sell fast, but there will be tickets available on secondary market sites, including StubHub , Vivid Seats , TicketCity , TicketNetwork , and SeatGeek .

First-time Vivid Seats users can save $20 on ticket orders over $200 by entering promo code NJ20 at checkout.

TicketCity users can save $15 on orders over $400 using promo code TCITYSAVE15 at checkout.

You can find a full calendar of Billie Eilish’s tour dates here .

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Madonna’s final celebration tour concert takes over copabacana beach in rio — here’s how to watch in the u.s..

The massive show will only be broadcast locally in Brazil on Saturday, May 4, but there are a few ways for those in the U.S. to stream it online.

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Madonna is showing her appreciation for fans with a free concert on Saturday, May 4, at the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro — the final stop of her Celebration Tour.

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• When Saturday, May 4 at 5:45 p.m. PT/8:45 p.m. ET (9:45 p.m. local Brazil time)
• Channel TV Globo (Brazil)
• Stream online DirecTV , Sling (add-on required)
• More ways to watch online Globoplay (available at Appstore for Android on Amazon , Apple App Store )

Madonna’s free Celebration concert in Rio will only be broadcast locally in Brazil, including on the Brazilian streaming video-on-demand service Globoplay. Fans outside Brazil can livestream the big event online on a cable streaming service that carries TV Globo or through a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Below, keep reading for more details on how to watch Madonna’s Celebration show in Rio online in the U.S., including for free.

How to Watch Madonna’s Celebration Concert in Rio: Date, Time, Channel

Madonna’s final Celebration Tour stop will take place at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, May 4. It will air on the Brazilian channel TV Globo at 9:45 p.m. local time in Rio.

Stream Madonna’s Celebration Show in Rio: How to Watch in the U.S.

If you want to watch Madonna’s Rio concert outside of Brazil, you can tune into TV Globo at 5:45 p.m. PT/8:45 p.m. ET in the U.S. You can stream TV Globo on any live TV streaming service that carries the Brazilian channel, including DirecTV and Sling .

Already have a Globoplay account? There’s a way to access your service from outside of Brazil.

Get more details on how to watch TV Globo and other Brazilian channels in the U.S. below.

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You can watch Madonna’s concert in Rio on DirecTV when you add Brazilian programming (including the TV Globo channel) to a satellite or internet-based plan. New subscribers can stream for free with DirecTV’s five-day trial. For satellite subscribers, you can add international programming to a Basic or Preferred Choice base package ($27.99 to $59.99 per month plus tax). The BrazilianDirect add-on is an extra $29.99 per month and includes TV Globo, or you can get the standalone TV Globo channel add-on for $19.99 per month. For DirecTV subscribers connecting via internet, add Brazilian programming for just $30 per month on top of your existing cable TV streaming package. Learn more here. And for a limited time, eligible subscribers can save up to $240; learn more here .

Watch Madonna’s Celebration concert in Rio on TV Globo with Sling , which offers a free three-day trial when you add select Brazilian TV Pack plans (reg. $13.99 and up per month) to your streaming package. New subscribers save half off their first month of Sling, so you can stream Madonna’s show in Brazil starting at only $20 for the Orange plan (reg. $40 per month) that includes CNN, HGTV, ID, A&E, ESPN, Disney Channel and other networks. Other packages include the Blue tier ($22.50 for the first month, reg. $45 monthly) and the combined Orange & Blue package (reg. $60 monthly) that includes exclusive news and entertainment channels such as ABC, NBC, Fox, E!, FS1, FX and others.

For those who already have Brazil’s Globoplay streaming video-on-demand service, you can use a virtual private network (VPN) to access your account in the U.S. Plans start at $12.95 per month or $8.32 monthly with annual billing; learn more here .

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Kamala Harris Leads Push to Shore Up Democratic Support From Black Voters

Speaking in Atlanta, the vice president began a national tour to highlight how the Biden administration is trying to help Black Americans economically.

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Vice President Kamala Harris made a new effort to energize Black voters in battleground states on Monday, visiting Atlanta for the kickoff of a national economic tour that will highlight how the Biden administration says its policies are helping a constituency that will be vital to Democrats’ success in November.

Speaking to a largely Black crowd of about 400 people, Ms. Harris laid out ways that she and President Biden have sought to improve Black Americans’ upward mobility and help them realize their business ambitions. A chief objective of the tour, she said, was to let Black business owners and entrepreneurs know about the resources available to them.

“I need the help of the leaders who are here to get the word out so people know what is available to them,” she said during a conversation at the Georgia International Convention Center with Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings of the financial literacy podcast “Earn Your Leisure,” which offers business advice to its more than two million listeners, a majority of whom are Black.

Explaining how government policies have widened the racial wealth gap over the years, Ms. Harris pointed to the Biden administration’s attempts to try to narrow it, including small-business grants and efforts to forgive student loans.

“We want to make sure people know about it — and then know where they can receive — the support to be ready to take on the work and then to grow their capacity,” she said.

Her remarks at the official White House-hosted event — drier and less political than her forceful campaign speeches on abortion recently — meandered at times.

“As much as anything, the spirit behind the push for access to capital, and in particular, on this tour, focusing on minority small businesses and Black-owned small businesses, and small businesses and entrepreneurs who are Black men, is to recognize the disparities that have existed around the access to the opportunity to achieve success,” she said at one point.

But at other moments Ms. Harris was more pointed, including when she defended diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that conservative lawmakers have pushed to dismantle in state governments and at colleges and universities .

“In spite of those who in certain parts of our country want to attack D.E.I., we understand that you can’t truly invest in the strength of our nation if you don’t pay attention to diversity, equity and inclusion,” she said.

The vice president’s Atlanta visit, her 12th trip to Georgia since taking office, was the first stop in a tour of several battleground states in the coming weeks. Much of the tour will focus on Black small businesses and economic issues that are especially pressing for Black communities. She will visit Detroit next week, aides said.

Ms. Harris’s tour will also seek to engage Black men, whom Democrats are urgently courting as polls show them softening in their support for Mr. Biden. Much of the crowd at the vice president’s event consisted of Black male political and business leaders, as well as a contingent of students from Morehouse College, a historically Black men’s college in Atlanta where President Biden will deliver the commencement address next month.

Before her speech, Ms. Harris visited an entrepreneurship hub near downtown Atlanta where she spoke with Black small-business owners.

Flanked by Georgia’s Democratic senators, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, as well as Representative Nikema Williams, the state Democratic Party chair, Ms. Harris highlighted the Biden administration’s marquee legislation, like the CHIPS and Science Act, which offers funding for small-business research projects.

She also underlined the roughly $7 billion that the administration has poured into historically Black colleges and universities, the largest investment of any White House administration.

Atlanta is set to receive more than $150 million for a project called The Stitch that is meant to revitalize the city’s downtown areas and connect them to its growing midtown neighborhoods. Georgia is one of 40 states that will receive money from a White House program that aims to repair the decades-old societal damage from federal transportation projects that disproportionately displaced Black communities.

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Release: house overwhelmingly passes gottheimer-led bipartisan legislation standing up to antisemitic hate on campuses, requires the department of education to use widely-supported ihra definition of antisemitism in title vi investigations. builds on gottheimer’s commitment to protect students and stand up to hate in all forms.

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WASHINGTON, DC —  Today, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) and Mike Lawler’s (NY-17) bipartisan legislation — the  Antisemitism Awareness Act  — overwhelmingly passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation, which is supported by thirty of the country’s leading Jewish groups, requires the Department of Education to use the widely-supported International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism in Title VI discrimination investigations. The IHRA definition has been used by the U.S. State Department over the last three administrations. By codifying this definition into law, Jewish students will be more protected from antisemitic discrimination, harassment, and threats. This bill will give investigators at the Department of Education a clear framework and the proper tools for  identifying and evaluating antisemitism, helping resolve some of the 137 active Title VI investigations and hold harassers accountable. The bill passed the House by a vote of 320-91.

Video of Gottheimer’s remarks on the House floor can be found  here .

“We cannot stand idly by as protesters call for the death of Jews on college campuses and across the country,”  said Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) . “When I spoke at Columbia last week, I told administrators that we need deeds, not words to protect Jewish students. This bill is a critical step to take the action we so desperately need to stand against hate.”

“What is happening at Columbia, at Yale, at UCLA, and so many other schools, is reprehensible and alarming,”  said Congressman Lawler (NY-17).  “When people engage in harassment or bullying of Jewish individuals where they justify the killing of Jews or use blood libel or hold Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the Israeli government – that is antisemitic. It’s unfortunate that needs to be clarified, but that’s why this bill is necessary.”

Gottheimer’s remarks as prepared for delivery:

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of my bipartisan bill, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, to ensure that we’re standing up to the Jew hate that’s spreading like wildfire on campuses across our country. I’m proud to lead this legislation with my fellow Problem Solvers Caucus member, Congressman Lawler.

As we are voting, in real time, our country’s universities are experiencing a tidal wave of antisemitism. Protesters have targeted Jewish students, haranguing them with awful Jew-hating insults and cheering on Hamas — a barbaric foreign terrorist organization that murdered Americans on October 7 and still holds five living Americans hostage, including my constituent, Edan Alexander.

I saw these protests up-close and personal at Columbia earlier this month. I’ve heard the sickening comments, comparing Zionists to Nazis, promising a redux of October 7 “a thousand times over,” and calling for resistance “by any means necessary” and “intifada revolution.” Intifada is used to call for violent uprising against Israel. These protests embolden Hamas, America’s enemy. In fact, they’ve put out a statement lauding protesters as “the leaders of the future.”

Let me clear up any confusion: this bill protects the First Amendment. It allows criticism of Israel. It doesn’t allow calls for the destruction or elimination of the Jewish state. Even more, our universities have a Title VI obligation to stamp out harassment on the basis of race, color, or national origin.

Colleagues, we cannot stand idly by as protesters call for the deaths of Jews on college campuses and across the country. 

This bill will require the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance or IHRA definition of antisemitism when carrying out Title VI investigations. IHRA’s antisemitism definition is the most widely recognized in the world, used by 36 states. It condemns traditional hatred and the ugly, modern antisemitism that we’re seeing on campuses.

There is no excuse to vote against this bill. When it was first introduced in 2018, 50 Democrats and Republicans co-sponsored it, including members still in this body.

Right now, the Department of Education has 137 active Title VI investigations, some of which have been open for years. The bill will give investigators a clear framework to evaluate antisemitism and finally hold harassers accountable. 

Don’t just take my word for it. Thirty of our nation’s leading Jewish groups back this bill. Under the last three administrations, the State Department has used the IHRA definition to monitor antisemitism worldwide. This bill takes a commonsense step to formalize the IHRA definition for our education system.

When I spoke at Columbia last week, I told administrators that we need deeds, not words to protect Jewish students. Colleagues, I’m making the same ask of you. This bill is a critical step we can take to stand against hate. I hope my colleagues on both sides of the aisle will join me in supporting this legislation.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I yield back.

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The Rolling Stones show no signs of slowing down as they begin their latest tour with Texas show

Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones performs during the first night of the U.S. leg of their “Hackney Diamonds” tour on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Houston. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Mick Jagger, left, and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones perform during the first night of the U.S. leg of their “Hackney Diamonds” tour on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Houston. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones performs during the first night of the U.S. leg of their “Hackney Diamonds” tour on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Houston. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones performs during the first night of the U.S. leg of their “Hackney Diamonds” tour on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Houston. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones performs during the first night of the U.S. leg of their “Hackney Diamonds” tour on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Houston. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Keith Richards, left, Darryl Jones, and Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones perform during the first night of the U.S. leg of their “Hackney Diamonds” tour on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Houston. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Gary Clark Jr. performs during the first night of the U.S. leg of The Rolling Stones “Hackney Diamonds” tour on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Houston. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

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HOUSTON (AP) — Time marches on and all good things must come to an end. But don’t tell that to The Rolling Stones .

What many believe to be the greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world showed no signs of slowing down anytime soon as they kicked off their latest tour Sunday night at Houston’s NRG Stadium.

The Stones have been touring for more than 60 years. Frontman Mick Jagger and lead guitarist Keith Richards are both 80, with guitarist Ronnie Wood not far behind at 76. Their tour is being sponsored in part by AARP.

But during a vibrant two-hour show, the Stones played with the energy of band that was on tour for the first time.

“It’s great to be back in the Lone Star State,” Jagger told the packed stadium, filled with longtime fans, many wearing faded concert shirts from previous tours.

Jagger often strutted up and down the stage with seemingly boundless energy while Richards and Wood played many familiar guitar riffs beloved by fans. Jagger often led the audience in sing-alongs.

“The energy level is up and it’s always up with them. The age doesn’t show,” Dale Skjerseth, the Stones’ production director, said Friday before the concert.

The Stones have hit the road to support the release of their latest album, “Hackney Diamonds,” the band’s first record of original music since 2005.

Houston was the first stop on the band’s 16-city tour across the U.S. and Canada. Other cities on the tour include New Orleans, Philadelphia and Vancouver, British Columbia. The tour ends on July 17 in Santa Clara, California.

During Sunday’s 18-song concert set list, the Stones played several tracks off the new record, including lead single “Angry.” They also played classics including “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Gimme Shelter,” Honky Tonk Women” and “Start Me Up.”

After playing “Beast of Burden,” Jagger said that concertgoers in Houston had voted to include it on the set list.

“You can’t go wrong with that,” one man in the audience could be heard screaming.

The Stones also played some unexpected choices, including “Rocks Off,” from their 1972 double album “Exile on Main St.” and “Out of Time,” a 1966 song that Jagger said during the concert had not ever been played by the band in the U.S.

With the 2021 death of drummer Charlie Watts , the Stones are now comprised of the core trio of Jagger, Richards and Wood. On Sunday, they were backed by various musicians including two keyboardists, a new drummer, backup singers and a brass section.

While the stage was surrounded by a large collection of video screens projecting images throughout the show, the main focus of the concert was the band and their songs

Before Sunday’s concert, Jagger spent time on Friday touring NASA’s Johnson Space Center in suburban Houston, posting photos on his Instagram account of him with astronauts inside Mission Control.

“I had an amazing trip to the space center,” Jagger said.

When asked if the band might be thinking about retiring, Skjerseth said he doubts that will happen.

“This is not the end. They’re very enthused,” he said.

This story has been updated to correct a song title to “Gimme Shelter,” not “Gimmer Shelter.”

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