How to save money on travel in 2026?
New year “debt-free” is possible: analysts of the travel market calculated how Russians go on vacation in January and save up to a third of the budget.
The main instruction is to avoid resorts in the “high season” and look towards large cities with thousands of rooms.
Moscow. St. Petersburg and Sochi remain anti-crisis hits: thanks to the competition of hotels, even at the peak of the holiday, you can find free budget rooms. According to booking services, the April excursion tour to the Northern capital costs 30% cheaper than the May one, and the whole of January-March reduces the prices of air tickets to the Black Sea by a comparable 20-25%.
Early booking-2026 started on the first of January: "Black Sea" tours are 15-20% cheaper than the June price. Families and companies save an additional 20% if they take apartments instead of star hotels, and the car tourist, according to experts, pays exactly 0 rubles for luggage and a car seat.
Hidden prices and new routes
Aeroflot has launched a flat tariff in kaliningrad The ticket price is fixed regardless of holiday demand.
Who is tired of "everything previously seen" - an alternative in Russia: tour operators record an increase in requests for Elista, Yoshkar-Ola, izevsk And Penza, where the average night in the hotel costs half as much as in the tourist meccas.
Source:https://ria.ru/Photo: https://www.personalguide.ru/
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