14 Cheap Places To Travel in August

Back in February, Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern told Bloomberg that summer 2022 would be “the busiest travel season ever.” That may have been a bit of an overly ambitious prediction (thanks largely to inflation), but the travel bug is certainly going around. According to a survey from ValuePenguin published in May, 73% of Americans had plans to travel this summer.

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But a lot of consumers will also be staying put at home to avoid the pitfalls of spending. The same ValuePenguin report found that of the Americans who will not be traveling this summer, 57% aren’t doing so because they can’t afford to. Clearly vacationing and living on a budget don’t exactly go hand in hand. Must it be that way? Can we not travel in a way that accommodates a tight budget?

Absolutely we can travel on a tight budget — it just depends on where we travel to (and from). Let’s explore a range of awesome but relatively cheap places to travel in August 2022. Surely the price of your journey depends on your location and other criteria, but you can get a good idea of how much (or little) it costs per day for a family to get by in style in beautiful and, in many cases, exotic locations.