How to Find the Best Travel Bargains

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Travel|The Secret to Finding the Best Travel Bargains

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Frugal Traveler

The key is to adopt an “off-travel” mind-set and use off-season, off-peak, off-road and other offbeat strategies.

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Credit...Robert Samuel Hanson

June 10, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET

To save the most on travel, resist the mainstream. Instead, think in every way — including where to go, how to go and when to go — like a contrarian.

I call this frugal secret the off-travel mind-set, a willingness to chart your own course to savings and possibly a better experience. The following are a few off-travel strategies I rely on.

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Credit...Robert Samuel Hanson

Off-peak travel, or going when everyone else isn’t, generally gets you the best prices on costs that change with demand, including flights and accommodations.

Kayla DeLoache, the U.S. travel expert for the travel search site Kayak, said midweek flights tend to offer the best value while Fridays and Sundays are the most expensive thanks to the weekend surge.

“Tuesdays, Wednesday and Saturdays are generally where we see airfare around 20 percent cheaper than other days of the week,” said Katy Nastro, of Going.com, a membership service for cheap airfare.


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