, can you believe that 🎄 Christmas is just 80 days away?!

We can — because we just booked a few trips to visit Swiss Christmas Markets! ☃️ (Yes, of course we will share the details with you in our weekly emails!)

But you know us, always trying to maximize our travel budget. Which is how we scored some 🍭 sweet discounts on hotels during peak Christmas market season!

Meet HotelCard, which allows you to save up to 50% off hotels in Switzerland!

• We've enjoyed 10 nights so far using HotelCard
• We just booked 4 more nights in December for Christmas markets!
• We've saved an average of nearly 85 CHF per night
• That's a total savings of 1,186 CHF! 🤯

Here's how HotelCard works:

1. Browse 500+ hotels in Switzerland (and some neighboring countries) for available dates and prices.
2. If you like what you see, then you can buy HotelCard for 69 CHF. (→ It's originally 99 CHF...our link gives you 30 CHF off!)
3. This is valid for 1 year. 1 HotelCard per room.
4. By the way, the deals are better the earlier you book. So if you're already making plans for your upcoming Swiss vacation, be sure to check it out!

How we use HotelCard (tips + tricks!):

• We use HotelCard to stay near the airport the night before we fly out! Bonus: you can usually save more than 69 CHF on this one night alone — already making HotelCard worth the money.
• We use HotelCard for one-night stays or when it doesn't make sense to book an Airbnb (because whew, those fees are expensive). It's even better when the hotel has free breakfast too!
• We use HotelCard for last-minute trips, like when we went to Zermatt for a week in August and only booked 1 week in advance. (We were waiting on clear weather!) Our choice to stay in hotels was actually cheaper than the few Airbnbs still available. Win!
• We use HotelCard to reduce decision fatigue. When you're searching for somewhere to stay, you're usually presented with hundreds of choices. With HotelCard, we only have about a dozen options, which makes it much easier to pick. And in our experience, HotelCard has fantastic, clean hotels in great locations, so we trust their options!

We tried out HotelCard for a few months before we shared it with you. But honestly, it's too good to NOT tell you about it!

Hello, Reader!

Here's a little collage of some of YOU who we met recently! (from USA, Canada, Singapore, Iceland, Spain, Costa Rica, France, Philippines, and beyond!)

Honestly, we LOVE meeting you because you're ultra encouraging and it's a joy to hear how our resources help you enjoy your vacation to the fullest!

So this is your cue: if you see us while you're in Switzerland (or anywhere, really), please stop and say hello!

A few of you who we met over the past few weeks asked how you can support us.

Here's a quick snapshot of how you can encourage us with your generosity:

• ​Watch our YouTube videos. And keep sharing them with your friends and fellow travels. This is where most people first discover us!
• ​Buy our travel guides. So far we have 4 Guides, and we're currently creating 2 more (one for Zermatt and one for Swiss transportation).
• ​Book a Consultation. Ask us all your questions about traveling Switzerland, from where to find bathrooms to which train pass you need to when to visit. We're here to help with it all!
• ​Leave a $$$ tip. Did you know that we have a virtual tip jar? You can select how much you'd like to give! (There's also a built-in "super thanks" tip jar on YouTube too.)
• ​Buy through our affiliate links. We're not influencers seeking endless partnerships. We try stuff first and then tell you about it — only if we love it. When you purchase something from our gear page (like these collapsible containers or foam laundry sheets), we earn a small commission. We also have affiliates for an eSIM card, hotspot, SPF makeup, adventure activities, and more!
• Tell us! We love your encouraging YouTube comments, and we're working on a way for you to add Guide reviews on our website.

YouTube Community What type of BUDGET VIDEO do you find the most helpful? –Breakdown of how much we spent –Tips to save money –Travel credit cards –Other (tell us!) –I don't watch budget videos GUESS HERE

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