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As in beginning, I'm 24 year old guy from Finland. Even thought I'm young, I have done quite some traveling around the world. I have visited: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, France, Spain, Greece, Germany, UK and also Some of the United states, more specific California, Oregon and Florida. My budget is never really huge and I always try to use as little amount of money as I can to travel the location in order to have as much money as I can to spend at the location.

First thing that people normally end up spending way too much money is Flight tickets. Take your time on looking around and finding the cheapest way to travel even if it takes a little longer to travel to the destination. Do not be satisfied on the first good deal you get as that might not be the cheapest, thought if the price of the ticket is only a few euros or dollars (or whatever your currency is) cheaper it might not be worth it to pick that as on long layover or wait of a train you might end up spending more than that on food and beverages than needed.

Second, try to be flexible with your dates of travel. Unless you have to be back by certain date or you have certain time you must be at the location, you get much better deals by looking various dates and traveling outside the season, as that make sense.

After you have chosen your destination, you should try to find a cheaper place to stay. Unless you're a rich person, which if you're I wonder why you're even bothering of reading this in first place, you should try multiple places to find a good hotel to stay us. After all even cheaper hotels can be quite comfortable and the location might be just as good as a good hotel, just without luxury. And well what do you do with fancy hotel anyways, unless you have came to the location to spend time in your hotel, I would advice you to save your money on doing things on your vacation.

Depending of the location, getting around might be tricky as if you don't know enough about the place. Try looking into the public transportation system. In example the fastest way in London and Paris is not rental car, bus or taxi, but the underground system. It takes you pretty much anywhere in city in fraction of the time you would spend in taxi and also cost nearly nothing.

It's best to check out the location before traveling so you can get the most of it at one time. Don't make strict schedule for yourself as that never works and don't ever cram too much stuff on one day as after all you came to relax in your location, not rushing place to place trying to see everything. The key is to check what sights would be near one another and possible to see easily in one day, without spending time on traveling between locations.

I hope these will get you guys started planning on your dream vacation, there will be more hints how to travel, but as it's nearly 2am here in Finland, I better get some rest as I don't want my brain to shutdown ;)