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20 unusual ways to save money: Stay in hostels on vacation
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I'm getting a little tired of hearing people talk about how it's too expensive to travel. Lots of times, travel is cheap as long as you don't chase luxury. If you're really interested in seeing more of the world, then there are still plenty of ways to do it sensibly. One of the prime ways to visit a foreign place cheaply is to get yourself out of the chain-hotel ghetto. Sorry, Marriott, and Hilton, but for people who really want to experience, say, Budapest or Paris, there is a more realistic way to make that dream come true.

At the top of the list of cost-cutting is hostels. Americans overlook hostels. That's probably because compared to the rest of the world, we don't have very many of them, or we perceive them as flophouses for losers and addicts...

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