10 AMAZING and Shockingly Affordable Bucket List Budget Travel Destinations for 2026.
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Travel doesn’t have to be expensive, and in this video I’m sharing nine incredible destinations where your money genuinely goes farther without sacrificing experiences. From Europe to Southeast Asia to Central America, these are places where a $50–$75 daily budget can unlock amazing food, scenery, and culture. If you want to stretch your travel dollars and still travel well, this guide will point you in the right direction.
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00:00 Affordable Destinations for 2026
00:34 Montenegro
01:57 Bosnia & Herzegovina
03:14 Poland
05:09 Laos
07:35 Cambodia
09:23 Northern Thailand
11:01 Philippines
12:28 Guatemala
14:27 Morocco
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I've been to all of the places except Guatemala. Loved every single one of them!!
Am from Bosnia, can’t wait to visit the homeland this summer 🇧🇦
Will you help me plan a trip to one of these places??? I need help lol
Loved Montenegro so much so, going back this year. I still really wanted to explore Croatia everyone says you can't budget. You need to spend a lot.
Do you have a list of affordable places in the us?
Nice video! I didn’t get to do Montenegro. I did Croatia and even Croatia was cheap compared to Wa state.
Yoo i am a Montenegrian whose father is from a village near Mostar and whose wife is from Poland near Kraków, I couldn’t agree more with the first three 😄 and i think southern Albania should be up there, It’s beautiful and cheap af!!
I've heard horrible horrible things about the experience friends from Germany had in Morocco's airport. The workers were extremely rude, even though the friends are very quiet and polite people. They stole a camera from one of them and just opened the other's bag and used his harmonicas without asking. Don't be polite and agreeable with rude people there
Well done. Went to Kotor in 2023. Loved the environment but felt like the food was underwhelming. Your description of Chiang Mai sounds amazing! And Guatemala. I've done Costa Rica but you definitely make it sound like I missed out on not making it here. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
0:59 i have no idea how big Conecticut is
Visit Slovakia.❤
Malaysia! English spoken there, Kuala Lumpur is pretty modern, really good food, great shopping, very inexpensive, safe. I've been there twice and plan to go back again.
Love krakow
Great video beautiful places
Dubrovnic vs Montenegro? U comparing a city to a country tho. Yeah Dubrovnic is expensive, all of croatia is not like that. Where were u in montenegro even? Did u go to their most expensive city too? Just seems like u shiting on Croatia. Im swedish so its not like i take it personal but I've been to croatia and it just seems crazy to shut it down like that
Honestly you should check out Indonesia. With the exception of Bali, Indonesia is cheaper than every place in this video.
I love your videos, they are full of valuable information
You forgot Vietnam!
Great. Here comes the TONS of tourists Thanks to this video.
It's better to avoid Americans . Cheap places ? Where the food is just 5$ you give 8$ . Why? Because it's so cheap? You destroy the market. And everywhere i hear Americans, they are sooo great and sooo awesome and in America is everything sooo much better. Pffff i am so done with this people ( most of them;) )
Where do you put passports credit cards in other important documents while you are out on the water or at the beach?
Question. You seemed to have no problem travelling with a child. What would you recommend for someone who has to travel with a service dog.
I think I did it wrong because I was in Poland in 2024 and found it relatively expensive compared to other places in Europe. Food was expensive, travel was expensive and unreliable, accommodations were affordable sometimes, other times not; but it was a beautiful, wonderful country!
Great information! Thanks!
I have been to most of the big cities in Europe. CPH infew weeks off season.many french cities this yr.Lyon and Bordeaux and stratsbourgh.been to Rivera off season.was airline crew.fly free.pay taxes
I don't appreciate that you are simply 'repackaging' your earlier video(s) and showing same footage over again.
Everything is affordable if you travel from Switzerland 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭
Hi there, I'd be interested in traveling more and I appreciate the video but I'm not sure how to get started, like planning, getting around etc. it's pretty intimidating. Do you have any recommendations?
If you are from America or Western Europe, why do you even need these cheap places? Stop exploiting these countries and being so cheap.
Also it is cheap only to you. To most people it is not cheap
Is 70 USD/day cheap? I traveled solo last year to Brazil and Colombia and spent about 30 USD/day.