Frugal Vacation Tips

On our last vacation we rented a 3 bedroom condo with my sister and her family. The kids had one room to themselves and each couple had their own room. It was great cooking meals with my sister and hanging out in the living room in the evenings together. It was also much cheaper than if each family got their own room.

I have a Frugal Vacation tip: Stay Home! Lol, just kidding. I'm going to check out the site you listed, even though I am really not going away.

We own a timeshare, so when we go on vacation, the condo is already paid for. I always buy groceries the day we get there so we have food in the unit. This way the kids aren't begging to go out for lunch and dinner...we already have the menu planned out for the week. We do plan the nights out in advance too. I always buy ice cream bars to keep in the condo as snacks too, so the kids don't complain about not getting ice cream from the ice cream truck.

i travel on whichever plane is the cheapest at the time.i stay at nice but cheap hotels.we will have a late breakfast so we wont need lunch to save on at least 1 meal per day.

We just got back from a short 3 day 2 night trip to an amusement park. We went on Sunday night so the rates were cheaper. We got a package deal from the hotel that included our park tickets, breakfast each morning and they had a pool so the kids could be entertained at night. We found a location close to alot of resteraunts and stores so we didn't have to drive far or out of the way to get something to eat. We had 2 gift certificates to a resteraunt chain so we ordered take out and ate in our room. We could bring drinks and snacks into the amusement park so we had those with us from home. The trip was perfect and we hardly spent any money but then our kids are young 3 and 5 so we could get away with not spending too much money. They had a blast and we didn't go over budget.