How to Find Free Travel Accommodation

How to Find Free Travel Accommodation. The cost of hotels and hostels can start to mount up as you travel, especially if you include expensive cities like Dubai and Singapore in your itinerary. Three good ways to reduce the cost of your accommodation is to volunteer or become a housesitter.

Volunteering

Save money on accommodation by volunteering, and stay with local people. How it works is simple, you create a profile on a volunteering website (WOOF and Helpx are the most popular), find hosts in the places you want to visit, and are looking for the skills that you have (i.e. child minding, gardening, DIY, housework etc.). Read the hosts listing and profile (especially reviews) carefully.

Most hosts will ask you to work between 2 and 4 hours a day, and in return you receive free accommodation and food. Bear in mind that some countries do not allow you to volunteer on a tourist visa, so, look into it before you travel.

Housesitting

With both volunteering and housesitting, the sites that are more widely used do have an annual fee for you to use them, but you’ll save a lot of money in return, and meet lots of amazing people.

Finally, Couchsurfing is popular amongst those looking to travel the world for cheap, but having never experienced this style of travel, it isn’t something that I can really advise you on. We’ve only touched the surface on how to travel the world for cheap, but hopefully, this post will give you some good ideas to help you plan your round the world trip.

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[ladyinky]

I had never heard of volunteering before I started watching your channel. It's amazing to me that someone can travel all over the world and find free, or greatly reduced, accomodation like that. Great Video with lots of really good information.

[TameraWeeks]

These are great ideas that I've never heard of before. Thank you for sharing, Darren! :)

[VegardThefilmmaker]

I have always wanted to try housesitting and i hope to do it one day. It saves a lot of money especially if you are in a high cost country and choosing to stay one place for a period of time.

[timpotts]

Good tips brother! Glad the vids are back too 👍

[BurningKitchen]

Yay first comment. Not sure why im so excited. Ill actually watch the video now...

[ARTiculations]

Very interested to see how couch surfing works out for you. Something I've always wanted to try but I think I'm still a little too risk adverse haha. Maybe one day.

[Adilbhati]

Hi Darren, any tips for booking cheap international flights apart from using SkyScanner?

[stijn]

Hey man, I just came back of my studytrip in China and I now need to search for an internship from coming september til half february 2017. Ive been digging into a lot of countries and the one I wanted to go to the most (Australia) is actually very expensive and I have to pass on that one. Now I remember that you lived / traveled to Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia has a nice climate, is cheap and they speak English so I think im going to try to get an internship over there. I am going to watch back some of your videos to see how the culture is and such. Could you tell me a bit more about Kuala Lumpur? Is it possible to eat western without paying a lot more than the normal Malaysian food? Would you recommend spending 5 months over there and why?

[samsoon]

hello sir... found this video very helpful however, like my case, im not that capable enough of shouldering all my expenses....just wanna ask about the visa and all other fare, like volunteer is volunteer right? that means i should be responsible for my visa and airfare to get there.... another question is, do host family also give stipend? thank u....