Travel by yourself
It is much cheaper to buy tickets and book a hotel yourself than to buy a ticket through agencies. Even if you were lucky enough to snatch a burning tour, remember that intermediaries always take a commission, so you overpay anyway.
An independent trip is always more interesting and cheaper. You may have to spend a little more time searching for a suitable resort, hotel and tickets, but it's worth it.
Looking for cheap flights
The worst way to buy air tickets is to go to the first website you come across and actually buy them. To save money, you definitely need to look for sites with cheaper air tickets; discounts can be very good on some of them.
And remember the main rule of the traveler: the earlier you buy tickets, the greater the benefit.
Apply for visas yourself
It is easier, faster and, as it seems to many, more reliable to entrust visa processing to the agency. There is a common misconception that when registering it through intermediaries, there is less risk of rejection. However, this is just a misconception.
Find the nearest consulate or visa application center, find out on the website what documents you will need, collect them and take them yourself.
Avoid taxi rides from the airport
When booking accommodation, ask about the transfer. If it is not provided, see how you can get to the hotel by public transport or rent a car directly at the airport, if there is such an opportunity.
Taxi is the most unprofitable way to travel from the airport.
Save on communication
If you want to call your loved ones from vacation, use Skype or Viber for this. And if you plan to go online, connect to local operators.
Use alternative ways to save money
These are, for example, various coupons with Groupon, discounts for students or pensioners, promotions like "10% discount for early booking".
Another good way to save money is to get a bank card that will allow you to save, for example, Aeroflot miles.
And always remember the golden rule of the traveler: it is better to go 10 times, for example, to a sanatorium in the Moscow region, to Altai, to the Crimea, than to save up for one trip abroad for a year.
