How much do we want to spend on travel and do we have enough money is the question we ask ourselves and you have to ask yourself too while planning your overseas trip.

Why do we and you have to ask this question?

For us as we travel with kids for a long distances and also for a length of time, so our budgeted amount can blow out fast if we don’t plan and the last thing we want to do is get to our destination and not have enough saved to enjoy the holiday, the experience after waiting for so long and organising to get there.

Unless you are a lottery winner or your Aunt Fannie Mae left you a lot of money to play around with you will have to plan and budget for your travel and holidays.

The way we organize our finances for travel is like anything we do, we decide where we want to go, we find out how much it costs completely and then we save for it.

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Where should we travel to and what’s our travel destination, this is probably the most important question you will have to ask yourself and your other family members once you have made the decision to travel in the first place.

As you can imagine there are many things to consider before you travel or start the planning phase to travel, most of these are on my main list on Planning a Holiday Overseas.

When we plan holidays, in particular overseas holidays we have a rule of thumb (I say we loosely as it’s the hugs n kisses rule and I just abide), “Don’t go where you have been before”.

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