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[quote=Anonymous]That's a pretty hefty travel budget. I plan to travel out for the year (when I can) because it's much cheaper to book tickets far in advance and with lodging.

Christmas: We always do a Christmas trip and have found if we go around the 15th/16th of Dec-27th (ish) we have the best prices but school let out later this past year and isn't much better next year, which makes finding flights hard.  We take budget flights and love going to Europe.  We look for affordable lodging (family hostels, airbnb/booking.com apartments). example: 7 nights at a wonderful family hostel that included a terrific breakfast buffet & was super central in Copenhagen was $819 so extremely reasonable.

We booked our Christmas trip lodging a months or two ago for Quebec City this year (free cancellation) since I wasn't find great tickets for our dates and we can just drive up to QC and have a magical time.

Spring Break: This is when I often find the cheapest tickets!! Again, I book FAR ahead (I start looking about 10-11 months in advance and keep my eye out for a great deal).  I've scored tickets for around $300 London, $330 Copenhagen, and $460 Madrid.  I try to book lodging far ahead too but I also have friends and I've had friends offer to host us - this really helps!

Summer: Again, plan far ahead! Same type of thing. You have to really track the flight prices and jump on deals when you see them; they are usually for very specific dates.  Ex: there were tons of reasonably priced tickets for 6/11-6/19 a few months back to Europe ($300-$500 pp!!).

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