Break of dawn, Majorca, Spain by David Petty

Here are some of the best ways you can save money on a trip to Majorca.

Flights

Comparison websites are the best way to check out your flights. They do the legwork for you, finding the cheapest deals on your selected dates. Travel Supermarket, Expedia and Cheap Flights all offer a useful service.

Contrary to popular belief it can pay off to book flights early. Particularly during the popular months there may be a late rush to buy tickets. Avoiding peak times, such as the school holidays and weekends may also help to cut costs.

A good tactic is to sign up to email alerts from your favourite travel sites. Then you don’t miss out on any ticket sales. This article by the Guardian offers expert advice on bagging cheap flights.

Food

The key to eating on the cheap is to avoid the major tourist spots. You will often pay a premium to dine where the masses want to go. Instead find out where the locals recommend. Not only will you save money, but you will get a real feel for native life and cuisine.

The best tactic is to dust off your Spanish, and talk to shop owners or the proprietors of your hotel. If you want to establish what’s out there before you depart, you can find useful lists of expert recommended restaurants online.

Playa de Muro, Majorca, Spain by PRINSOTEL HOTELS

Activities

Majorca’s warm climate means that there are plenty of activities you can do that won’t break the bank. The island is strewn with beautiful beaches like Playa de Muro, a never-ending stretch of golden sand and turquoise sea.

Adrenaline junkies can get their fix with Experience Mallorca and their range of instructed activities, such as scuba diving for around sixty pounds.

Accommodation

Just as with flights the key to getting a deal on your accommodation is to do your research and compare. Sites like Hotelopia offer hotels in Majorca for as little as 15 pounds a night.

You can get deals if you book last minute or out of peak season. The best thing is to subscribe to emails from travel sites to get alerts about sales.

Palma de Majorca, Spain by Cristian Bortes

Extra Tips

If you fly with a budget airline you are likely to pay extra to store luggage in the hold. Instead try to minimise how much you take and pack it as hand luggage.

Many travellers also overlook the fact that most credit cards add a 3% cost to the exchange rates banks themselves get. The Halifax Clarity credit card has no foreign exchange rate fee anywhere in the world. Using one just for spending overseas can save you money, as long as you make sure to pay it back in full to avoid interest.

A holiday in Majorca doesn’t have to break the bank. In comparison to many destinations you can find very reasonable deals. A little extra legwork could mean that you can enjoy a great family holiday for a great price. Do you have any money saving tips to share?

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Channel tunnel, UK <=> France by Mortadelo2005

Aeroplane: there are a high number of flights leaving from all of our UK airports and going to pretty much any airport in Europe. The flights are usually quite short, anything from a 40 minute trip to Amsterdam, an hour’s flying time to Spain, or a four hour journey to get to Turkey. Aeroplane is the quickest method of transportation to get anywhere. There are, a number of people, however, with an aversion to flying, some don’t enjoy it, or really don’t like to fly. If this describes your or someone in your family, then you may feel like you have limitations placed on where you can go to, but there are a number of other methods of transportation for you to take advantage of.

The train: you can drive down to the channel tunnel and take the train over to France, from here you can drive or take a coach or further to trains to get to anywhere you need to get to. This journey can take a bit longer, the drive or train journey to get to the channel tunnel can take a full day depending on where in the UK you live. Once you are in France, you will need to continue to travel for anything up to one or two days more, if for example, you were going to Spain, once you have got off the train in France, you’d either need to drive for about a day or get a train which will take a few hours to get into Spain. The trains are comfortable and offer food, drinks, as well as a bathroom, so you will be travelling in relative comfort.

Ferry UK to France from Dover by Harvey Barrison

The Ferry: if you are unhappy going on the channel tunnel, if the idea of a train underwater concerns you, but equally you do not enjoy flying, consider taking the ferry. You will need to either drive or take the train to Dover in order to meet with your ferry, if you have driven there you can put your car on the ferry so that you can use it when you get to Europe. The ferry ride takes an hour or two to get to dock in Calais, France. From here you can either take another train to whichever European country you wish to visit or you can drive yourself. The train/car journey length will vary depending on which country you are going to and whether you make any stops along the way.

Whilst it may take a little longer to get the train or the ferry, it is much cheaper in costs, and further to this, you get to see more of the countries you are travelling through, if your holiday is a trip to Spain, you can tell your friends that you’ve also been to France too. Travelling to Europe now, is as easy as travelling in and around the UK, and with work being continually carried out, the trip is sure to get easier and easier.