Budget Travel

Apr 8, 2019 • 6 min read

When the focus of your trip is the great outdoors, you don't need to stay in a bare-bones hostel to connect with like-minded travelers.

Mar 22, 2019 • 5 min read

As major world cities go, Cape Town is pretty affordable. Eating out is fairly cheap by European or North American standards, and many of the museums and…

Mar 20, 2019 • 5 min read

New Zealand is the land of Lord of the Rings, home of the All Blacks, and, according to the writer Rudyard Kipling, the eighth Wonder of the World …

Feb 18, 2019 • 5 min read

Helsinki is a captivating city with an intriguing history, impressive architecture, innovative design and fantastic food. Light and airy in the summer and…

Feb 11, 2019 • 6 min read

One of the great joys of travel is trying new foods and exploring the restaurants and markets of an unfamiliar destination. But travel is expensive enough…

Nov 21, 2018 • 5 min read

With diverse scenery packed into a compact country, New Zealand is a brilliant destination for a road-tripping adventure with family or friends. There are…

Nov 12, 2018 • 6 min read

Paris' prevailing popularity saw the greater area welcome more than 40 million overnight visitors in 2017, but despite these record-breaking figures, it's…

Oct 12, 2018 • 7 min read

West of Washington DC, Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is a picture-perfect realm of history-filled villages, apple orchards and breathtaking mountain…

Aug 28, 2018 • 6 min read

It is a truth universally acknowledged that, despite countless hours of research, sometimes even the most eagerly anticipated trips can go spectacularly…

Aug 24, 2018 • 5 min read

The outside perception of Houston might be all concrete jungle and corporate headquarters. But if that’s all you think it is, the artistic side of Texas’…

Aug 9, 2018 • 5 min read

It’s 2am on a Saturday night in Seoul and the local watering hole is a packed house. You can hardly find a seat but eats are cheap and drinks are even…

Aug 7, 2018 • 5 min read

Warsaw is lively and Kraków is beautiful, but Poland’s third-largest city remains a mystery to many travellers. However, Łódź, pronounced 'Woodge', has…

Jun 19, 2018 • 5 min read

Summer in New York City can be brutal – and one of the best ways to escape its sweltering clutches is by heading to Central Park. Once all areas of the…

Jun 11, 2018 • 5 min read

Helsinki is not cheap, but since the advent of Restaurant Day – a festival organised four times a year when ordinary citizens can open their own food…

May 2, 2018 • 6 min read

Historically, paradise on earth has cost the earth: Persian emperors constructed opulent private gardens (pairidaēza – from which the word ‘paradise’…

Apr 23, 2018 • 7 min read

Wouldn’t it be great to gaze upon your hometown with the wide-eyed wonder of a child? Where the city is not a collection of office blocks and car parks,…

Apr 23, 2018 • 8 min read

Our relationships with our hometowns are often turbulent. Yes, you have a lot of history together, but it’s easy to grow complacent, denounce it as dull…

Apr 17, 2018 • 6 min read

Blackjack tables, roulette wheels and slot machines just aren’t what they once were in Las Vegas.

Apr 12, 2018 • 6 min read

The ‘Big Trip’ has long been a rite of passage, but for many budding travellers – even those blessed with the bravado of youth – the thought of months on…

Apr 6, 2018 • 4 min read

Lonely Planet Local Heather Mason moved to Johannesburg in 2010. Enchanted, she soon fell in love with Melville – the quirky, tree-lined suburb where she…

Mar 29, 2018 • 6 min read

Lithuania’s capital city has been quietly charming tourists for years, drawing in visitors with the largest baroque Old Town in eastern Europe, then…

Mar 19, 2018 • 5 min read

Lonely Planet Local Amy Hornsby has lived in Kraków for two years, where she spends her time soaking up the old world charm of eastern Europe and…