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Vagabond Travel Part-1 Lodging
Save money by climbing lodging pyramid
Young travelers on a budget often feel intimidated by the cost of traveling. Besides paying high gasoline prices, most budget travelers rarely can afford a descent hotel room let alone a week’s worth. The travel industry, it seems, is more interested in making a buck than providing reasonable prices on attractions and lodging.
For this reason, the use of a theoretical lodging pyramid is essential to saving money and keeping comfortable while traveling.
What is a lodging pyramid? Like other pyramids, the lodging pyramid focusing on moving up levels on a scale. In this case, the scale is lodging and comfort.
The bottom level of the lodging pyramid deals with free forms of lodging and builds up to the top where luxury hotels await.
Once again, this scale is largely for the young at heart and aimed at saving hundreds of dollars while traveling.
At the base of the lodging pyramid are such gruesome forms of lodging as sleeping at a rest stop. In other words, the use of a vehicle as a place of lodging.
Yes, this in fact is very uncomfortable, but a few things can be done to create the best environment possible.
When stopping for sleep, either at a rest stop or large parking lot, first get out and stretch your legs. A tight body is always harder to get to sleep than a loose one.
The use of ear plugs and sleeping glasses also come in very handy in this situation. The less you realize you’re sleeping in a parking lot, the less you’ll feel like you slept in a parking lot.
While parked, remember to keep your windows slightly cracked, but your doors locked.
This form of lodging is best used when you are driving long distances from one place to another and know that better lodging lies ahead the next night.
Also on the base of lodging pyramid is backcountry camping. Backcountry camping is free at most national and state parks and requires only a permit for usage.
Backcountry camping can be done by hiking one mile into a trailhead. For extra security and comfort, try finding a trailhead near a modern campground where water, bathrooms and a phone are close by.
The next step on the pyramid is regular campgrounds and hotels, each of which remains well under $20 a night.
Here, the comfort level jumps up a notch, but still remains far from the Hilton.
Most campgrounds have showers and other amenities while hotels have kitchens, laundry and a number of other perks.
The final level on the pyramid has many facets and includes motels, hotels and resorts. A cheap motel for $30 to $40 would be one of the lower facets, followed by fancier hotels with pools and hot tubs and, finally, a resort where pampering occurs.
By starting at the bottom of the pyramid and working your way up, each day gets a little better for comfort, but a little more expensive.
If you can sleep in a car for one night, backcountry for two nights, camp in a campground for three nights and then stay in a nice hotel on the seventh night, you only have to end up spending about $100 for a week’s worth of lodging.
