Cheap / Free Holidays-Couchsurfing with Liz Howes + Ariel De Ramos

Each week on Great Destinations Radio show, we’ll feature ways to holiday for free -or as cheaply as possible. Ariel De Ramos and Liz Howes have written a guide to the concept of #couchsurfing.. They traveled around Europe by bus for 30 days and spent just £50 / $73 USD/ $ 109NZ on places to stay. I must admit, I was initially discouraged by the idea of sleeping on someone’s sofa. I’m 46 and my days of snoozing on a mate’s settee are long gone! The couple told me that they’d stayed in proper beds and one host even did their washing for them! You don’t have to stay with your contacts, either. Couchsurfing also helps travelers find friends in unfamiliar cities, who will show you around. Ariel and Liz discovered ‘secret’ parts of cities that visitors wouldn’t normally find thanks to the coachsurfing community. Listen to Ariel and Liz share their tips on how to be a successful couchsurfer.

You can buy their book ‘Coaches to Couches’on Amazon. Keri. #travel,#budget,#destinations