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An exciting experience is organizing a trip abroad, especially your first one. You search through Instagram and Pinterest for travel-related ideas, look for the ideal suitcase, and even research hotel rates in advance. How about finding out how to travel internationally without making mistakes? Preparing for a trip abroad requires more time and work than planning a local break due to things like visa procedures, voltage variations, and language hurdles. Check out this top 10 list of foreign travel errors whether you're preparing for your first trip abroad or you just need a refresher (and how to dodge them). #1: Overpaying for plane tickets The internet is full with tips for reducing the cost of airline tickets. Purchase them on Monday. Wait, it's 7 o'clock on a Tuesday! Order them three months beforehand. But if you're travelling to France in the summer, six months. And depending on algorithms used by the airline industry, the advise is updated annually. Everyone is aw

  If you're looking for an inexpensive vacation , schedule your travel around times when hotel costs are known to be at their lowest. Then, to complete your itinerary, use a service like Hopper or Kayak to locate the greatest deals on flights. By choosing the ideal location and season, you may be sure to find amazing hotel deals. The result will be a potent, cost-cutting one-two punch that can help you save hundreds of dollars even for a brief family vacation . If you make the correct plans, you can even get large price drops—up to 56%—at hotels in big foreign capitals like London and Rome. Here is your month-by-month guide to the best travel discounts. January: Los Angeles The lowest rate of the year for four-star hotels in Los Angeles is $212 per night in January, saving you 33%. Spend any extra money on popular eateries like Trois Familia (by Ludo Lefebvre and the Animal guys) or Otium, a daring new restaurant connected to the recently opened Broad Museum. January: Melbourne It&