How was your weekend?

Really? Just for two days? Often, I have heard this from my friends whenever I spoke of my travel tales. As an exigent traveler, you may have felt like embarking on a short getaway multiple times without missing office or any of your full-time commitments. While friends and family would have found it crazy, lavish and random, what they didn’t realize, was that you were a travel trendsetter. Micro Trips are the latest travel trends of 2019.

Micro Trips are the miniature trips that save time at the destination, pocket-friendly and are fulfilling. All we need is a Priceless Urge to travel, smart planning and advantageous flight timings/road map. I am sure you are intrigued to know more.

Why Micro trips?
A lot of people I meet ask me why do I take a micro trip when I can stay at a place longer. My answer to that, I don’t like wasting money paying for extra nights at hotels and it doesn’t require me to take day’s off from work. I plan my trip and research about the place in advance so that I don’t miss out the places of my interests.

Micro trips are advantageous to those who don’t get much time or vacation days. It is the perfect way of unwinding yourself and getting back to work with a much better weekend story and it helps in dealing with the Monday blues.

Where to and how?
Trips don’t need to be expensive and long. It has to fulfill your purpose of travel. Micro trips can be staged around a couple of things like cheap flights or if you are traveling by road on a bus, you may consider traveling at night so that you save a lot of time. Sleeping on a flight or a bus is cheaper than hotels. Whatever your destination may be, research on the places you want to go, and the things you want to do. Look for cheap, late-night or overnight modes of your commune. It is always suggested to use a backpack for micro travel so that you don’t need to worry about your luggage and you can move around freely. If you have more than one place to visit and not planning to stay in a hotel, you can always avail luggage storage and cut down on your accommodation.
Planning is an integral part of micro travel. There are numerous websites that you could refer to, for cheaper flights http://www.ixigo.com, http://www.goibibo.com, and http://www.makemytrip.com. If you want to store your luggage there are multiple ‘Store your Luggage’ outlets where you can safely keep your belongings and roam around the place hassle-free, in fact, many airports have introduced Luggage storage spaces, making it convenient and easy. If you want to rest in a hotel then Airbnb, TripAdvisor and, Oyo Rooms are always a great option and pocket-friendly.

So, what’s your weekend story?