It may only be March but the warmer weather is already in the air and many are beginning to plan their spring and summer vacations. However, if you haven’t begun planning your yet, let me give you a bit of a heads up. The current dollar situation is making many oversees trips quite expensive this year. The problem isn’t necessarily higher prices of travel expenses, the problem is that our U.S. dollars are simply worth less these days. And when your money is worth less, you simply need more of it to get around.

Unfortunately, neither of us can do too much about the value of the dollar (unless you happen to be the head of The Federal Reserve). But I do have a few suggestions to help get you through the summer and manage to enjoy a nice vacation without burning a hole in your pocket. My first suggestion is to simply stay local. By staying in the U.S. you are ensuring that your dollar is worth just that – one dollar. Not 0.6 Euro’s or 0.5 British Pounds. Another suggestion is to try and compensate for the weaker dollar by looking for cheap deals online. There are many sites which you can compare to find the lowest price for almost any destination. These include well known names such as Travelocity, Hotwire and Orbitz as well as some smaller niche sites. But don’t worry about having to log onto each site separately and enter your travel itinerary over and over again. A better option is to go to lowfares.com. With lowfares.com you can enter your flight information (destination and dates) only once and find the utmost cheap flight which comparing any 3 of the top travel sites simultaneously. This makes the process a lot simpler and faster. Don’t forget to send us a quick update on how your vacation was.