City-Break

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Why Rome Rewards Smart Budget Travelers Last November my wife and I checked into a tiny room in Monti, a ten-minute walk from the Colosseum, for €60 a night. Two streets over, an almost identical room with a grander lobby was going for €250. Same neighborhood, same cobblestones, same morning church bells. The only difference was that I’d spent twenty minutes the month before figuring out where the best budget hotels in Rome actually hide. That twenty minutes is what this guide hands you for free. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. The Best Time to Visit Japan on a Budget, in One Sentence We had the April flights in the cart. Then my wife refreshed the fares one more time and read the number out loud, and we both just sort of stared at the laptop. Cherry-blossom week to Tokyo cost almost double what the exact same route cost six months later. So we did something that felt slightly heretical at the time: we skipped the sakura and booked late November instead. I’ll tell you how that turned out lower down — and why the maples we got might have been the better deal anyway. ...