Traveling on a budget doesn’t have to mean skimping on the extras. Budget conscious travelers can experience holidays that make them feel both pampered and luxurious. Travel coupons are there for the taking if you know where to look. Follow these top five tips and you’re budget vacation is sure to be one of the best you’ve ever had.

We all love getting away on a winter break. The worst feeling around Christmas time is to know you have all the freedom in the world with time off of work, but you can’t do anything because of the weather outside! That’s why luxury winter holidays are becoming increasingly popular. Choosing to book luxury holidays in the winter gives us the perfect opportunity to escape the dreary skies and dark mornings and swap them, at least temporarily, with exciting and unique winter adventures. So if you’re considering booking a luxury winter holiday, let’s have a look at some of the best winter wonderlands on offer:

New York, also known as the Big Apple, is a vibrant cosmopolitan city. As with any big city it can be difficult to know where to stay. There are plenty of excellent hotels offering every type of luxury. Therefore, when choosing from New York`s best hotels, location is a key factor to consider. Another key factor is the style of the hotel.

Discover all the wonders the French Riviera has to offer by spending your Easter holidays on board a luxury yacht. Simplicity and elegance awaits you as you will venture out to some of the best beaches, islands and little quaint villages the French Riviera has.

When you think of an African safari holiday, you instantly get a picture in your head of an open top 4×4 vehicle following the tracks around a National Park and stopping at the sight of an animal. This is by far the most popular way to safari, and a very good way to travel at that, but if you are in the right park there are also countless other ways to get around whilst seeing the wildlife from a whole new perspective, here are a few of them.

Have you had it with tourist traps and conventional resorts? Would you like to travel down undiscovered roads and learn the secrets to the universe? How about just a vacation to remember? Either one of these offbeat destinations will stick in your memory forever:

When novelist Jules Verne penned his Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, he likely didn’t know that his novel would inspire more than just the literary sensibilities of future generations. Beneath the surface of the Emerald Lagoon in Key Largo, Florida, there’s a buried treasure well-suited for the adventure traveler in you: Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the only underwater hotel in the United States.

In my twenties, I wished I could be Carrie from Sex and the City. I watched her on TV one day as she opened the doors of a beautiful penthouse in New York and took in the skyline view with her boyfriend, Big. I was pretty sure I’d never have that life.

And then it dawned on me that it could be my life for a few days. I could rent a penthouse.