Run On Carry On is a fitness and travel blog, providing trip itineraries, travel budgets, must do activities and how to stay fit when traveling on vacation
Typically my partner and I are very focused on maximizing our travel budget by forecasting and planning on each trip’s spend. My spouse does financial planning in his day job and loves to create elaborate spreadsheets to not only anticipate the overall price tag, and get me to “approve” the expense. This January was unusual.…
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As part of our family money priorities, travel takes up a fair portion of our spending. Every trip comes with a budget and then a post-mortem of how we did with our budget to understand the over/under. Although I would LOVE to say we always stay in budget, there are many (most?) trips we go…
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For better or worse, the only items we truly negotiate for in the United States are our homes, vehicles and salaries. Rarely do you see negotiation for items otherwise. Since I haven’t needed to hone my negotiation skills in my home country, entering a negotiation heavy country like Egypt is exciting and a bit nerve-wracking…
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One does not visit New York intending it to be low cost. We **attempted** to make this trip a more cost effective one vowing to eat mostly dollar slices of pizza and chill out after going severely over budget on our recent South Africa trip. Easier said than done! Each and every trip my husband…
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Does it make me a helicopter dog mom that I am even writing about this? Yes, yes it does. This is a fact about those who have big travel plans to Turkey or South Africa, or even a quick jaunt down the road to your Mother-In-Law who won’t let you bring your canine family member…
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Not gonna lie, this one hurts a bit to talk about. We went to South Africa understanding a 1 to 14 ratio of USD to rand but the exchange rate doesn’t always reflect cost of living. Japan for example is 110 Yen to 1 USD but everything is so expensive in Japan. When we got…
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Every trip we do a “postmortem” travel budget to actual spending to understand where we landed in our planning and how it may impact future trips we have in the pipeline. Typically, Patrick is spot on with estimates, and where we may spend more in one area, we spend less in another. He is also…
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Resort Fees – On top of your nightly rate, hotels will charge a resort fee. Why this is not simply lumped in with your nightly rate, i have no idea. Even if you pay for hotel rooms in points (what we did) the resort fee is not covered and is often not quoted until you’re…
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Early April, hoards of athletes head down to Galveston, TX to race the Ironman Texas 70.3. Millions of dollars are brought into the island and surge pricing for accommodations takes over. Galveston is a pretty low key trip for us, with the main purpose of racing and seeing friends based in Houston. This year we…
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Every trip we do a “postmortem” travel budget to actual spending to understand where we landed in our planning and how it may impact future trips we have in the pipeline. Typically, Patrick is spot on with estimates, and where we may spend more in one area, we spend less in another. He is also…
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