50 city guides · 3-day budget travel itineraries
3-day city guides for budget travellers — free attractions, cheap eats and low-cost adventures.
Free cliff-diver angles, 25-peso market comidas, colectivo rides along the bay and viewpoints that c…
Cobblestone wandering, Q5 tamales and free hilltop panoramas in Guatemala's colonial capital — all d…
Free civil rights history, $2 tamales on Buford Highway, and 22 miles of Beltline trail that never c…
Free galleries, spring-fed swimming holes, trailer-park tacos and clifftop sunsets, all without a ti…
Free-admission art collections, pushcart produce markets, $9 noodle counters and harbor lookouts nob…
Free downtown Plus 15 skywalks, no-cost river parks, cheap ethnic eats in Forest Lawn and Chinatown,…
Free public beaches, MX$12 buses, market fondas and a Mayan temple that never charges admission.…
Free parks, farm-shed produce, strip-mall Vietnamese and a $6.60 day pass through the banking capita…
Free zoos, free-admission museum days, $2.50 'L' rides and legendary cheap eats across a city that h…
Free art museums, a no-cost vintage trolley, $2.50 all-day transit and taquerias where lunch costs l…
Free capitol tours, $2.75 tacos, Red Rocks at no charge and the cheapest skyline viewpoints in the M…
Free public art, a no-cost people mover, dollar-menu Coney dogs and Michigan's cheapest waterfront —…
Orozco frescoes for free, 12-peso Mi Macro rides, tortas ahogadas under 60 pesos and rooftop views t…
Colonial squares that cost nothing, cafeteria window food under 200 CUP, collective taxis and a Male…
Free art museums and mural walls, Chinatown food-court plates under $10, and ridge-top sunsets reach…
Free nature trails, mosaic folk-art parks, a 250,000-strong bat colony, Chinatown food halls and a $…
Public beaches, market comedores, colmado merengue and a sugar-town plaza that never charges admissi…
Free desert land art, fire-breathing mantises, Chinatown lunch specials and a $20-a-car canyon loop …
Free world-class museums, dollar-menu street food and public-transit beaches across 4,000 km² of cit…
Roofless cathedrals, 40-córdoba lunches and volcanic viewpoints — Nicaragua's capital on under $15 a…
Free Rivera frescoes, market comida corrida under 80 pesos, pulque by the litre, and the world's lon…
Public beaches, free county-funded murals, $2.25 Metrobus rides and Cuban ventanita snacks that keep…
Free forts and public sand, JMD 260 patties, market fruit and a ridge-top sunset — MoBay without the…
Free foundry parks and riverwalks, MXN 22 tacos, MXN 4.50 metro rides and mountain canyons for the p…
A gateless mountain park, wood-fired bagels at any hour, sample-heavy markets and a 14.5km canal you…
Free beaches, $1.25 bus rides, no-cost forts and $10 fish-fry plates across New Providence.…
Second-line parades, no-cover jazz, riverfront levees and $8 lunches across a city where the best cu…
Staten Island Ferry skyline views, dollar dumplings in Chinatown, free museum hours and the city's b…
Free national museums on Thursday nights, riverside trails that cost nothing, ByWard Market lunch co…
Free hilltop viewpoints, ceviche cups under B/.3, fonda lunches below B/.7 and a metro that costs le…
Philly's greatest hits cost nothing: 4,000 murals, a free art collection in a bank vault, and a $2.5…
Petroglyphs, copper-domed museums, hand-pressed tortillas and mountain-top views on under $30 a day.…
Iron Market bargaining, 50-gourde tap-tap rides, griot from street grills and free hilltop panoramas…
Free rose gardens and volcano summits, $12 cart plates, $5.60 all-day transit and viewpoints that ne…
Free Sunday museums, 40-peso market lunches, 8-peso city buses and cathedral-tower panoramas that co…
Free sculpture walks, 12-peso city buses, market comidas corridas and swimming holes that cost nothi…
Public beach entrances, roadside pica pollo, the Friusa market and 25-peso minibuses instead of reso…
Free lookouts, 1871 grocery counters, poutine under $8 and a river crossing that costs less than a c…
Sandstone bluffs, mural-covered bridge pylons, cash-only taquerias and clifftop viewpoints that neve…
Free-admission days at world-class museums, $12 Mission burritos, staircase murals and hilltop panor…
Free-entry days at national museums, ₡700 bus rides to volcano-view suburbs, and the sodas where a f…
Ramparts you walk for nothing, market plates under US$8, mural alleys in Santurce and sunsets that c…
Free hilltop viewpoints, 20–60 CUP street plates, agro-market fruit and a 1-peso ferry across Santia…
Walk 500-year-old streets for free, eat comida criolla for under RD$250, and ride the metro across t…
Free-entry parks, waterfront viewpoints, transit-fare hacks and multi-ethnic cheap eats across Balla…
Three days in the only major US city where the art museum, science center, zoo and history museum ar…
Free parks and murals, immigrant-neighbourhood meals under CA$10, and the city's best viewpoints wit…
Free suspension bridges, Chinatown bakery counters, market lunches under $12 and mountain panoramas …
Danzón under the arches, seafood tostadas at market counters, and a Gulf breeze that costs nothing —…
Nineteen Smithsonian museums that never charge admission, immigrant food halls where lunch runs unde…