We're not really that Mustachian about travel, but we do try to keep our costs down.
- Accommodation: We rent places on AirBnB, discount hotels, or sometimes really good sale packages.
- Food: We get places with kitchens whenever possible and shop for ingredients at the local markets. Restaurants have huge portions, so when we do eat out we typically order a main and an appetizer, or a few appetizers and no main, rather than two mains. Generally no drinks in restaurants other than water, unless there's something really interesting on the menu. We don't drink alcohol at all. We don't go to expensive places to eat.
- Other: We don't shop, we spend money on experiences instead - so we come back from Paris with the memory of climbing the Eiffel tower, rather than coming back with a bunch of plastic Eiffel towers. We plan vacations around where we can get a good deal, rather than have specific destinations in mind. We travel carry-on only, so no luggage fees. We research before we go to avoid "tourist taxes" as much as possible.
We do two international trips a year, one about two weeks and the other about one week. We've been to England, Mexico, France, a Caribbean cruise back to Mexico as well as Belize, Honduras, Caymans, and Miami, and done "fancy backpacking" style trips where we cover a lot of ground/countries to the French Riviera, Italy, Monaco, Guatemala, Hungary, Austria, and Switzerland. We spend about $7600/year combined.