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Sunday, July 1, 2012

How To Get Your Dream Vacation - 3 Easy Steps

By Richard Horowitz


Let's be honest here. In most cases, our dream vacation may not quite fit into our financial possibilities. However, having persistent determination, diligence and discipline means that your dream vacation could be much closer than you may think. Here are 3 easy steps to your dream vacation.

Join a Home exchange program. If you want a dream vacation, then the truth is you simply cannot get any better than free! With home exchange programs, you will be allowed to swap homes with other home-owners in your dream vacation destination. In other words, you can save on costs of accommodations. Providing you with great information about swapping homes are several excellent home exchange websites. The "Travel The Home Exchange Way" and "Know Your Trade" is what we recommend. There is no better way to fast forward to a dream vacation!

How about if you put your credit cards to work for you. As long as you are going to use one, why not let it work for you since just about everyone uses credit cards in one way or the other. Get a credit card that allows you to accumulate credit-card miles, which you can then use for FREE travel awards, travel upgrades and many other luxuries you may otherwise have to dish out large sums of cash for. Before you make your next charge, you should first find out if your current credit card offers any travel rewards. It is time for a switch if this is not the case. There are many credit cards that award airline miles, cruise vacation points or hotel points.

Be careful though. Do NOT make unnecessary charges on these travel award cards merely to get a free airline ticket! Use the travel reward cards to pay for necessary expenses! Here, the trick is for you to use the card to make purchases you would have made with cash. Then, every month, you can pay off the card to a zero balance. By doing this, you have made a purchase you would have made with cash anyway and are also piling up points toward great travel awards.

Unnecessary assets should be liquidated. Free accommodations and a free airline ticket is what you finally have. But what about spending money? For most of us, there are actually stuff all around the house that we seldom or even never use. What you can do instead is sell it and use that cash as spending money on your dream vacation. You can have a virtual yard sale if you use Craigslist and Ebay to you sell stuff you no longer use or need. Don't forget that old saying: one man's "junk" is another man's "treasure."

You may be enjoying your dream vacation much sooner than you think if you follow these three easy steps. It really is as easy as 1-2-3.




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