These 3 Money-Saving Travel Hacks Are Myths — Here’s What To Do Instead

Are you already planning your travel destinations and big vacations for 2025? If so, chances are you are scouring the internet for tricks and hacks that will save you money on your trip. Here’s the bad news: Lots of these frugal travel tips are myths, not actually keeping you on budget. The good news is that travel experts have a few pieces of actually useful advice for what to do instead of following not-so-thrifty hacks.

A common travel tip people have been following for years is that you should search for flights in private Incognito mode and clear your browser cookies to see the lowest fares, according to Mercedes Zach, a travel expert at Asaptickets, part of Trevolution Group. “This approach comes from the belief that airlines are using browser cookies to track your searches and will show you higher prices if you do several searches for a particular destination within a short period of time,” Zach explained. From Zach’s professional experience, airfare pricing is dynamic and constantly fluctuates and Incognito mode has no impact on it.

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