September 3rd, 2010 
Admin Travel Happy, Budget Low (Create Your World Books )
Travel Happy, Budget Low informs you how to travel economically in planes, trains, and buses, how to find inexpensive meals, and how to book inexpensive hotel rooms or stay for free with locals. With more than 200 tips and 160 website resources, Travel Happy, Budget Low covers the topics of frequent flyer mile tricks, health/safety, expenditures,packing, passports/visas, preparation, customs and more. Budget travel does not mean you will spend weeks on rickety old buses with no ventilation or spend the night in run-down hostels. You will realize that you too can see Paris, The Great Wall of China, the Vienna Opera, and other great sites without breaking the bank. Enrich yourself culturally without being rich!
Advance Praise for Travel Happy, Budget Low
“Susanna has written a digestible, yet comprehensive, guide to help travelers save money, be comfortable, journey light and stay happy in the process!” -Beth Whitman, author of the Wanderlust and Lipstick guides for women travelers
“Susanna is able to combine her personal experience to give the reader some essentials in seeing the world on a budget. This book will enable many folks to see more of the world for less.” -Albert Yu, Group Sales Manager, Four Seasons Silicon Valley
“A practical read and must have for any budget conscious traveler. Share in Susanna’s experiences and learn from her mistakes to become a savvy globetrotter. This book is for both beginners and experienced travelers, with a wealth of tips and resources covering all areas of travel.” -Kristine Ng, co-founder of Esplora, an online resource and social networking site for women travelers
“I found Ms. Zaraysky’s book an invaluable source for an independent traveler. It is very useful, up to the point and very functional. I wish I knew some of the tips that I found in this book during my earlier travels.” -Leon Gendin, 27 years of travel, visited 63 countries, lived in 12 countries.
“Do you feel grounded by high priced airline tickets, lousy exchange rates, and luxury hotels? Susanna Zaraysky, the quintessential budget globetrotter shows you how to travel well without breaking your budget. A must read for would-be world travelers!” -Prof. Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco
“An excellent book. For the tourist it is useful since it helps in knowing on what to plan, and for a seasoned traveler it is a checklist. The most wonderful part that I see is – it brings together all the tiny little details, that every traveler would have experienced in various trips, under one umbrella.” -Dilip Menon, Traveled in 12 countries, lived in five
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Review by Tracy Winters for Travel Happy, Budget Low (Create Your World Books )
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“Travel Happy, Budget Low” contains a number of practical tips that the first-time traveler or seasoned veteran will find equally useful. Drawing from her globe-trotting experiences, author Susanna Zaraysky shares practical tips that will help satisfy the wanderlust in anyone, while saving them money in the process. Written in an easy-to-read, conversational style, the author shares many practical ideas that can be put to use on your next trip. I especially enjoyed reading the suggestions on how to make the most of your frequent flyer miles.
This is a must-read book for anyone who is ready to pack their bags and travel across the country or around the world.
Review by Marcus Schuetz for Travel Happy, Budget Low (Create Your World Books )
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This might be a good book for those who start traveling. There are many practical tips given, but mostly they are very obvious. I personally could have saved 8 US$ from my budget, by not buying the book.
Review by Kristine E. Leftwich for Travel Happy, Budget Low (Create Your World Books )
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If you buy no other travel tips book-buy this one! It is jam-packed with information and resources every traveler should have! Having spent a year in Bosnia and back-packing across Europe through 10 countries I can honestly say I wish I would have had this wonderful resource then. Don’t leave home without it!
Review by L.A. Little for Travel Happy, Budget Low (Create Your World Books )
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Travel Happy, Budget Low, is a well organized and easily read book containing over 200 tips for making your travels both pleasurable and less costly. Susan includes numerous personal stories that are entertaining (including the fly-away passport) yet educational. Learning from others is certainly less painful than having to learn ourselves.
Although a portion of the material will quickly become dated, Susan has augmented the majority of the material with well placed online resources to help keep the traveler up-to-date. The tips offered are all very sensible, germane and presented in a condensed form. Like her travels, apparently, Susan appears quite adept to packing a lot into a small amount of space. The amount of information contained in this short 152 paperback is immense.
The book is organized into the broad travel related sections you would expect to find, such as transportation, accommodations, foods, communications, and money but it doesn’t stop there. Ms Zaraysky has mixed in other ideas like packing, frequent flyer miles and health and safety. The result is a well rounded set of valuable ideas to help you in both planning and executing your travel plans.
What is most appealing about this book is that, out of the 200+ tips, I would be hard pressed to count more than a handful of thoughts that I would not find useful. Seriously, almost everything is applicable and is either a helpful hint or something you will want to take advantage of. They are almost universally valuable and thus, I can only highly recommend the book to travelers all over the world.
Reviewed by L.A. Little on 11/20/2009 for both [...] and [...]
Review by E. Wasnetsky for Travel Happy, Budget Low (Create Your World Books )
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This is a splendid tome! It is a rare occasion when a book meets all of my criteria for excellence and so, I rejoice!
Susanna is to the point with minimal fluff, this book weighs in at a lean 156 useful pages. Absolutely perfect! It is well written and reads very easily. (I read it in a few hours, it was much better than sleeping).
This book gets the highest recommendation possible for students, economy travelers and anyone who wants to shave a few bucks off their traveling costs. The advice is practical.
Anyone who travels frequently will benefit from reading “Travel Happy, Budget Low”. There is a great deal of advice which should be common sense but isn’t.
As an experienced vagabond I can say that after almost 20 years of traveling I still found good advice I never heard before. Even if you already know how to travel on the cheap Susanna’s experience can lead you to a smoother, less stressful and more enjoyable travel experience.
Get this book and get out to see the world.
Best wishes on your travels!