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Oh mon Dieu! Not all of us visiting Paris have the wherewithal to spend 00 on this irresistible couture blouse, or the all-time favorite little black dress. Let us be realistic: going on a shopping spree in Paris can be hard on our finance. Fashionistas of the world, let’s sin no more, and shop smartly from now on!

Expensive? A matter of area, mostly

Those of you who visited Paris already know that from a shopper’s perspective, the city is divided in broad sections where stores of the same trade tend to congregate. A mosaic of many colors, tastes, and price ranges.

Say, you are on the Boulevard Saint Germain, in the upper part of the Saint Germain des Prés district. Designer clothing stores, sidewalk cafés and restaurants abound in this area. Draw nearer the river Seine and your footsteps lead you where the art galleries cluster together. Walk a bit to the east, towards rue de Buci, the clothing stores become less expensive.

From Saint-Germain, walk up the Rue de Rennes, towards the Montparnasse area. You’ll be crossing the Rue Du Four where even more expensive clothiers line up the facades. But continue on to the Saint Sulpice metro station, around which many clothing stores offer cheaper garments and accessories.

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These days money, or lack there of, seems to play a large role in deciding whether to make those overseas travel plans. Fortunately it doesn’t have to be this way because even those with moderate incomes can choose to fly to far off lands if they know the secrets of international travel discount airfares. By being flexible, shopping around, and knowing some tried and true bargain travel methods you too can save money on your next trip abroad.

The biggest key to getting the best international airfare bargains is shopping around. There are literally hundreds of different fares available for just about any destination and taking the time to research and compare prices can pay off big time. The ability to use travel sites on the internet makes this task easier then ever because many of these sites will do the price comparisons for you. Using internet travel sites does need to be taken with a grain of salt though, because while they do a great job of searching the flights for you this does not mean that they include every possibility.

One technique that seems to be overlooked is checking with the individual airlines themselves. They often offer cheap tickets that can only be bought through their own ticketing and reservation agents and websites. So be sure to make some phone calls just to see what is available.  Read more...

Whatever the budget for a trip or vacation, most people would like to save a little – or a lot – of money when booking hotels, airfares and other trip necessities.

At Travel-like-a-pro.com, we specialize in helping people save money when booking their trips and vacations, and here are a few of our favorite tips for booking a hotel and making the reservation as smooth and affordable as possible:  Read more...

India is the world’s second largest country in terms of population, as well as the seventh largest in terms of area. It is growing at an amazing rate as technological, labor source, and cultural hub of the world, and all of these factors combine to make sure that if you are in a large enough company, you will probably need to do business in India at some stage. In some ways it is the easiest, and in others the hardest foreign country to do business in. There are 22 official languages and over 200 other languages and dialects, each of the major cities, like New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore are extreme culture shocks for the West. So how can you prepare yourself best to do business in this amazingly modern city, the largest democracy on Earth?

One of the best things you can do is establish a sound business base – a luxury hotel in New Delhi, hotel in Bangalore or hotel in Mumbai will offer superb facilities at little cost compared to hotels of similar standards in European countries and America. Shangri-La is one of the best-known business hotels in New Delhi, for good reason. They have comprehensive business facilities, like broadband access, executive size desks with built in multi-plug sockets, fax-copier-printer-scanners in rooms, as well as voice mail facilities and an electronic safe. All of these conveniences are set in superb luxury facilities, in richly decorated colonial-Indian style.  Read more...