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Sally French

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Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Yes, and this is usually just a few clicks. Typically, something in your payroll system will make this pretty easy.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Sometimes you have this funky payroll system. It's done in a way that you can't actually split your direct deposits. Of course, you can always just set up an automatic transfer from your bank account to shift some of that income into a separate actual vacation fund bank account.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Sometimes you have this funky payroll system. It's done in a way that you can't actually split your direct deposits. Of course, you can always just set up an automatic transfer from your bank account to shift some of that income into a separate actual vacation fund bank account.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Sometimes you have this funky payroll system. It's done in a way that you can't actually split your direct deposits. Of course, you can always just set up an automatic transfer from your bank account to shift some of that income into a separate actual vacation fund bank account.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Autopay definitely is a great tip. NerdWallet generally does recommend getting autopay set up, and we will talk more about why we recommend that, why we also recommend using travel credit cards in a later episode. Generally speaking, though, if

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Autopay definitely is a great tip. NerdWallet generally does recommend getting autopay set up, and we will talk more about why we recommend that, why we also recommend using travel credit cards in a later episode. Generally speaking, though, if

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Autopay definitely is a great tip. NerdWallet generally does recommend getting autopay set up, and we will talk more about why we recommend that, why we also recommend using travel credit cards in a later episode. Generally speaking, though, if

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

you are not able to pay off your travel credit card in full every month, it might be something to avoid just because any sort of late fees or interest on your credit card won't be worth the level of rewards you're actually getting. We will dive into that later though.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

you are not able to pay off your travel credit card in full every month, it might be something to avoid just because any sort of late fees or interest on your credit card won't be worth the level of rewards you're actually getting. We will dive into that later though.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

you are not able to pay off your travel credit card in full every month, it might be something to avoid just because any sort of late fees or interest on your credit card won't be worth the level of rewards you're actually getting. We will dive into that later though.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Look forward to that. So we did kind of allude to this earlier, but in terms of actually estimating the cost of your flight, how accurate do you feel like you usually get?

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Look forward to that. So we did kind of allude to this earlier, but in terms of actually estimating the cost of your flight, how accurate do you feel like you usually get?

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Look forward to that. So we did kind of allude to this earlier, but in terms of actually estimating the cost of your flight, how accurate do you feel like you usually get?

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Cool, cool, cool. I think that's a good tip. Overestimate. Worst case scenario, you have some extra savings in your travel fund.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Cool, cool, cool. I think that's a good tip. Overestimate. Worst case scenario, you have some extra savings in your travel fund.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Cool, cool, cool. I think that's a good tip. Overestimate. Worst case scenario, you have some extra savings in your travel fund.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Ooh, yes. Those unexpected travel expenses. I actually think that should be a topic for a future show. Oh, yeah, definitely. We could talk forever about that. Okay, cool. So we talked about budgeting for flights. Now, I imagine you budget for rental cars and hotels the same exact way.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Ooh, yes. Those unexpected travel expenses. I actually think that should be a topic for a future show. Oh, yeah, definitely. We could talk forever about that. Okay, cool. So we talked about budgeting for flights. Now, I imagine you budget for rental cars and hotels the same exact way.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

Ooh, yes. Those unexpected travel expenses. I actually think that should be a topic for a future show. Oh, yeah, definitely. We could talk forever about that. Okay, cool. So we talked about budgeting for flights. Now, I imagine you budget for rental cars and hotels the same exact way.

Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
How to Budget for Trips: When to Book and How to Avoid Hidden Fees

And we have mentioned Google Flights so many times. I also love Google Hotels, which if we're looking to budget for our hotel costs, it largely operates the same way.