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Travel YOUNG! (before being swallowed by the 9-5)
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items If you're even considering traveling a little bit, I encourage you to peruse this list to see if you can find something that fits your agenda! I'm about to graduate college and I am NOT ready or willing to start working a traditional yet (maybe ever ...
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Young Adult Travel Groups
Work for↔️room & board
Special Activities
Volunteering
Affordable Accommodation
Travel Credit Cards that earn you free miles
Young Adult Travel Groups
Travel in with other young adults with a full itinerary, transportation and your stay all included! These trips are shorter on the order of days to week, and in many countries
For ages 18-35, trips in every continent except Antarctica!
Contiki: Group Travel & Adventure Vacations
Flights included, can do payment plan
EF Ultimate Break
Great place to search for all types of gap year or gap semester programs
Gap Year Programs After College
Work for↔️room & board
In exchange for a few hours of work each day, these company or organzation provide food and housing!
Connect with nature through sustainable organic farming, recommended from friends!
WWOOF: World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
Variety of jobs including content writing and photography
Worldpackers: Work Exchange, Volunteer Abroad, Gap Year
Great option for travelling rent-free!
Trusted House Sitters
Another easy rent-free travel option
House Sitting with Housecarers.com
Special Activities
Random and super cool activity based abroad opportunities, I want to do all of these eventually
Saw this on tiktok, most locations are a total deal
Surf Camp France | Dreamsea | A magic Surf Camp
Party on a yacht for a week! Sign up for 2024 now
The Yacht Week office
This is on my life bucketlist!! Insanely good deal of 10 hours of surf lessons and full accommodation for $434/week
Dream Sea Surf Camp - Nicaragua
Volunteering
By volunteering, you can go with a like-minded group to live in another country and work for a good cause
If you're fresh out of college and not sure what to do, don't sleep on this!! It's a two year commitment but you make a huge impact and can potentially go to grad school for free. Also one of the few volunteer abroad opportunities where YOU are paid
Peace Corps Volunteer
Projects are usually in Central America and last a few months
Catholic Volunteer Network
For you if you're interested in education and agriculture
FoodCorps: Nourishing Futures For Every Student
Short, mid, and long-term oppportunities available
Volunteer Abroad Programs | United Planet
Affordable Accommodation
These are more traditional options to stay somewhere abroad, but at not as pricey as hotels! Some of these include food as well
Get more culturally immersed by using Homestay for your accomoodation
Book Homestays Worldwide
It may seem obvious, but Airbnb offers discounted rates for 1 month+ long stays
Airbnb: Vacation Homes & Condo Rentals
BEST option for Europe hands down. You can check reviews and get great rates as low as $10-$15/night depending on the country. I've used this site myself and high recommend, Hostelworld is the gold standard for finding a good hostel
Hostelworld - Explore the world's best hostels
Travel Credit Cards that earn you free miles
By signing up for these credit cards and following certain requirements, you can earn thousand of miles to fund your next flight across the ocean! Myself, my parents or my friends have used all of these cards.
Platnium Select card has first year annual fee waved, so after first year you can downgrade to the Mileup card and still earn the miles
AAdvantage credit cards − AAdvantage program − American Airlines
Essentially pay the $99 annual fee, earn instant 60k miles! Easily fastest way to earn miles out of any travel credit card I've seen
Apply For the AAdvantage® Aviator® Red World Elite Mastercard®
Similar to Citi AAdvantage, spend a certain amount in first 3 months to earn 50k miles
United Explorer Card | Travel Credit Card & Benefits | 50K Bonus Miles
Gold American Express Card has no annual fee and earns you 70k miles!
Delta | American Express Cards