With a low krone exchange rate, it is expensive to be a Norwegian on holiday. But it’s easy to be tempted when the neighbor or friends are out for a walk. Travel bloggers Anne Marthe Widvey and Jørn Bjørn Augestad have traveled a lot. “Vagabjørn” Augestad from Finnøy outside Stavanger has been to every country in the world and written books about travelling. Widvey is originally from Karmøy, but lives in Sandnes. The influencer shares several topics with his followers, and travel tips are one of them. Anne Marthe Widvey Favorite place: London (traveled there 50 times) Countries explored: 80 countries Instagram followers: 36,000 Jørn Bjørn Augestad Favorite countries: Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar and Norway Countries explored: 195 countries (all) Instagram followers: 23,000 Philip (the journalist): Philip ( the journalist) Hello! You travel a lot. Do you have any tips on how to travel cheaply? Jørn Bjørn Augestad: Jørn Bjørn Augestad Sure! Go on!Anne Marthe Widvey:Anne Marthe WidveyYes, I have 🙂 Come with them. Stay on a couch or at someone’s house Let’s start with hotels. Augestad says he doesn’t sleep much in such beds. – I live a lot with locals. In addition, I use a lot of Couchsurfing and Airbnb. I travel a lot so I don’t want to use up all my money on hotels. Jørn Bjørn Augestad travels a lot by car. Here from a journey in 2020 that ended in Iraq. Photo: Jørn Bjørn Augestad / Privat Widvey looks for hotels of a certain type. If they are small or just starting out, they may be better and charge less. – I often look for hotels with less than 50 rooms. As a rule, you get better service, and more has been added to the room itself. Newly started hotels can be cheaper because they want more visitors and good reviews, she says. Save money at the hotel, spend the money in the city Skipping the hotel breakfast can also pay off. – If you are in Rome, for example, you can rather walk the streets to enjoy the food they have there. There is no point in an expensive hotel when you are only going to sleep there, she says. Philip (the journalist) :Philip (the journalist) Do you often book hotels through remaining places with, for example, TUI and Ving?Anne Marthe Widvey:Anne Marthe WidveyNo, from experience I prefer to use Hotels.com and Airbnb. Then I feel that we get more control over where we are. We have done some road trips in the past where it looked very nice in the pictures. Then we arrive, and it’s very much a kindergarten holiday or charter atmosphere. But there is a bit of taste and pleasure. Augestad, for its part, goes to great lengths to warn against remaining places. – Often it is the most expensive tickets that are left. So it’s better to be out a little earlier. Otherwise, you risk that it will be very expensive, he says. Cheapest plane tickets with the airlines There can also be a lot of savings when it comes to plane tickets. Augestad carefully considers where he will stop over, if he has to. – I make many trips through Krakow. You can get plane tickets there for just a hundred Swedish kroner, he says. Several low-cost airlines are setting up journeys through, for example, Poland, he says. Widvey almost always orders directly from the airline. It is often the cheapest, is her experience. – And there will be less stress if you lose your luggage or your flight is cancelled. Then you can cut out the middleman and talk directly to the airline. She, too, is concerned with low-cost companies. – From time to time I search Finn.no to see if there are cheap plane tickets available. And if we don’t need luggage, we tend to look at Wizz Air or Ryanair. And a train or bus can be cheaper, she points out. Phillip (the journalist):Phillip (the journalist)Thank you very much for the many good tips!Jørn Bjørn Augestad:Jørn Bjørn AugestadNo problem!Anne Marthe Widvey:Anne Marthe WidveyOf course! Do you have any good tips on how to get the trip cheap? Share it with others in the comments section, then! Hello! Welcome to dialogue at news. Since you are logged in to other news services, you do not have to log in again here, but we need your consent to our terms of use for online dialogue Published 22.06.2024, at 19.47
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